Removing part of the braking system for the sake of "looks": no comment - no comment - no comment (I am holding myself back for fear I will **** you off) no comment - etc.

 

For a show only bike that gets trailored everywhere and only ridden very slow into a show area, that's great. You only need one caliper to slow it down from 10mph.
In the real world, out on the roads with traffic, it is a costly idea. Costs you safety, braking distance, braking power, and maybe even worse.

As said, bikes come with 2 rotors and calipers for a reason, SAFETY, and that would be YOUR safety.

 

If you take the caliper off dont forget to take off the fork tube and have the brackets machined off. that will require re powder coating the fork which might not match the other one. I believe many others install a larger rotor and a better quality caliper with more pistons in them. i under stand that with the larger rotor and caliper it equals out the ability to stop. Just speaking from what i have read and not from experience.

 

I'm not familiar with the "360" brake mentioned, so maybe this is the same thing...but some of the sportbikes have rotors that are open near the hub and have the contact area out near the tire. Don't know if something like that would be feasible on an H-D, but that concept would give you the looks and braking.

 

DI75 , Just how does your set up compare to the stock set up? Just curious to hear from someone who has done it.

Thanks!

Ride Safe,

Mike

 

The Heritage Classic weighs 725 lbs. dry and the Street Glide weighs only 7 lbs. more. The Heritage has one front caliper. I don't see where 7 more pounds is going to make any differance whatsoever. If that little bit of differancein weight was important, the MOCO would have to put warnings on the bikes that would limit the riders weight so the Heritage with load would always be 7 lbs less than the SG. "Running order" weights are 20 lbs differance 750 vs. 770. Again, a negligable differance.

 

I have had at least 6 baggers with a single disc on them and 6 piston calipers and they work very well, ALOT better than the crappy stock dual rotors, the 360 brake is a better mousetrap without question. I have always heard, and read it in a couple of places, that 90% of your stopping power on a dual rotor bike comes from one rotor on a dual rotor setup, and I do belive that based on experience. Do not confuse diving the front end with stopping power....true stopping power is measured in distance, not in how fast your front end compresses, which is easily confused. The goal on any braking system is to stop in the shortest distance possible, in the straighest line possible. There is a reason that cop bikes have abs standard, cause they are hauling ***, and having to make emergency stops on a regular basis in various kinds of weather. But back to the main question, there is nothing wrong with one rotor on a bagger, if it's done right, you will have much more brake pad surface than you do with two rotors and stock calipers. Safety is important....but I WANT TO SEE THAT WHEEL I JUST SHELLED OUT FOR!

 

It would seem to me thenthat any mod we may do would be dangerous.. If HD delivers the bike stock then that must be the "safest" way to ride them because they designed them "that way for a reason"... Punchin' it out to 95" or morecould be unsafe then... puttin' 18's or 21 inch wheels on could be dangerous... Lowerin' it could be dangerous... I don't know...just thinkin out loud I guess... My front brakes are mushy and squeeeeel like a stuck pig... I'll let you know later in the week when I have my 21" with the 360 rollin...

 

here's the 360 brake installed on my bike...it stops just fine...several of my friends can attest...it costs about what a custom brake setup does and looks really nice...see

the disks(2 of em sandwich a rotor)


the actual caliper


held by this bracket....fits in a hub mounted to the rim hub



here it is mounted




i've found the moco dont know everything but they want you to think they do..the aftermarket does such a better job bc they have to ...survival means their products must blow away any mass produced, mass histeria moco dribble...that single 360 up front will stop my superbike...yes i said SUPERBIKE...cause with 98 little ole cubes, i more than DOUBLE the output of a stock bike...that requires a mean brake

 

I rode Byran's bike today and wad VERY surprised at how well the 360 works.

Ironically, I was talking w/Bart about them just this week. He explained a lot aout the brake to me, including the fact that you might have to pull the lever a little harder to get teh same (or better?) results.

I can say that I was banging on his rev-limiter (6200) and NEVER worried about stopping issues...

I was a sceptic, too.

Now, what were you saying about seeing the new wheels.... Bart?