EBC brake pads - How carnivorous are they on a rotor?

Willtill

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So... I have new front and rear EBC brake pad sets from our illustrious Flipmeister. Fixing to get ready to pop out the OEM's and replace them with these.

Only have 13,000+ on the bike at the moment (not that I don't ride often, I had two other bikes/well one other currently...) and it's funny; my rear pads always wear out before the front... on all my bikes....

Anyway, I have some meat left on the front ones but will change everything out and renew the brake fluid while I'm at it with a Mity Vac bleeder.

So here is my question(s) after all my mental wanderings above:

1. Will the new EBC pads eat my rotors (Oem rotors)
2. Should I prepare to purchase EBC rotors for the next change out of the EBC pads?

and...

3. I have some "seemingly" small amount (not deep) of scoring on the rear rotor and am having a hard time determining if it is indeed brake pad glazing/residue or true scoring. Not in the mood to take sandpaper to the rear rotor. So.... will the new EBC pads return the current OEM rotor to a nice, polished contact surface?
 
1. No, they won't.

2. No, 60,000 (kms) on mine, mostly on Flip's EBCs... Guessing rotors at maybe 100,000????

3. Me, too, scoring on all rotors, but thickness still OK. Took the emery cloth to one rotor one time, haven't bothered since.

New pads will not pretty up the rotors... the pads will soon wear to match the rotors, possibly a bit grabby for a few applications...???

Give the rotors a bit of a drink of Brake Clean & a wipe over lightly with wet & dry paper to clean off any gunk.

Yeah, I have a bad habit of over-using the rear brake too ... but I'll never admit it.
 
Will - though maybe not necessary EBC prolite discs are bloody excellent if you want MORE.

Certainly brake better than most other discs I've tried - Except maybe Brembo race-spec ones. EBC seem more interested in providing bespoke solutions than Brembo though. So offer different sizes.
 
Will I get two sets of pads on the back to one set on the front so yours sounds like you really do not need to change the front yet. The EBC pads work great as there are a lot of us out there with high mileage bikes that use them. I have 53000 mile on my 06 and have no problems. So you know you can change th eback without even pulling the caliper.
 
I have EBC'S on the front (love them). I'm debating putting them on the rear for fear of locking up the wheel in a panic situation. Any had this problem ?
 
Fred F. said:
I have EBC'S on the front (love them). I'm debating putting them on the rear for fear of locking up the wheel in a panic situation. Any had this problem ?
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the only real lock up I have ever experienced is when my tranny locked up at 80 MPH rode her out well but there is a flat spot on the tire down to the steel belts On the plus side at least I did not have to put her down and the price of new shorts are not that bad
 


Yes, still have meat on the front ones. I'll change those out in December or so. Just replaced the rears with the EBC's (easy peesy) and flushed/bled the rear brake system. I'm fixing to take her out and start bedding the rears in. Will be interesting to see how they feel...

I did notice that on the rear OEM's pads, the pad material was a little thinner on the leading portion of the pad (both pads). Is that normal?
 
I would say yes but maybe one of your pistons was hanging up. I owuld not worry as it also could be the softer pads and how flat they were when they were coated.

Well I am working on my new trusty steed its getting cooler and I have a Triumph windscreen that will protect better then the wind vest.







I just put the first 90 miles on her since Gary took her for his final spin in October of last year. A lot to learn as Gary was an intelegent Engineer. I have noticed that his cockpit allows for excellent monitoring of all fluids, temp., and A/F ratios. pluss if you feel the need to cool her down there is a bypass switch that runs the fan for a cycles to cool her down. its plumb amazing the stuff he has done with Gracie.
 
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I just took her out for a bit. Take a look at the EBC brake pad on the pistion side:



The pad backing plate appears to have gotten extremely hot, so hot that it changed color. I just jacked up the bike and the wheel turns freely; with the normal sound of the pads scraping on the rotor.

Is this a usual effect of the EBC pad material; to get that hot that the backing plate could change color? I only rode the bike around the neighborhood, didn't really get on the rear brake hard...

Btw Warp, a most excellent bike your putting together....
 
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