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GrahamB

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Best brake pads?
« on: 06 July 2014, 08:45:59 pm »
I've searched, honestly but couldn't find much on the subject.
 Off to the Nurburgring again in August & front pads are a bit low. Just wanted general opinion regards all round use for best new pads to go for.
 Thanks in advance.

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Re: Best brake pads?
« Reply #1 on: 06 July 2014, 08:48:00 pm »





All i can say is that on all previous similar threads that most have said oem yamaha pads are the best.

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Re: Best brake pads?
« Reply #2 on: 06 July 2014, 10:11:02 pm »
carbone lorraine (in a silver packet) get a big thumbs up from me.
consistant stopping for 38 laps of cadwell and still got 6mm left (started with 8)

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Re: Best brake pads?
« Reply #3 on: 06 July 2014, 10:39:02 pm »
Been using bendix MF pads on my gen II, and they're simply superb! I've not got them to fade, and they do get a lot of abuse!
They do a harder racing compound too for even hotter use :-[

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Re: Best brake pads?
« Reply #4 on: 07 July 2014, 09:45:12 am »
carbone lorraine (in a silver packet) get a big thumbs up from me.
consistant stopping for 38 laps of cadwell and still got 6mm left (started with 8)


I can only find Red and Blue packets  :'(

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Re: Best brake pads?
« Reply #5 on: 07 July 2014, 11:26:44 am »
As noggy said... Oem .... You can get better but the improvement is only slight.

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Re: Best brake pads?
« Reply #6 on: 07 July 2014, 07:28:43 pm »
I've used Carbonne Lorraine pads on both a 600 and 1000 and found them excellent but, to be honest, there's very little between the popular options, and it comes down to what you get used to.

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Re: Best brake pads?
« Reply #7 on: 07 July 2014, 09:12:22 pm »
just checked. mine were the A3 CL pads (but old stock)

GrahamB

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Re: Best brake pads?
« Reply #8 on: 08 July 2014, 06:37:43 pm »
Okay thanks for all the replies folks. I'm guessing Yamaha pads would be expensive?
 Another question, what's a good on line source for pads?