Gold spot conversion. Which type of pads for road???

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Gold spot conversion. Which type of pads for road???

Post by Ritchiritch » Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:38 pm

As stated above I am looking for some brake pads to put in my gold spot calipers but not sure which ones to go for. I will be using bike for road only. Any ideas? Been looking on eBay and there's so many..

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Re: Gold spot conversion. Which type of pads for road???

Post by fung » Mon Jan 09, 2012 10:52 pm

the std yam pads are a good allrounder.
my bluespots came with EBCs, which grip up well but are generating masses of dust.
i will replace them with yam pads soon as.
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Re: Gold spot conversion. Which type of pads for road???

Post by M.V. » Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:16 pm

I'm running sintered pads from Metal Gear, $25 a caliper, easily as good as the Ferodo sintered pads at twice the price.

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Re: Gold spot conversion. Which type of pads for road???

Post by alextrx850 » Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:56 am

Sintered metalgear pads in the gold spots with as new metalgear 320 mm discs on the yzf 750 front ...gotta find a 14mm master soon...

still got a little low speed pulsation... :roll:

please let it be the old 5/8 master.. [-o<

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Re: Gold spot conversion. Which type of pads for road???

Post by M.V. » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:43 am

alextrx850 wrote:Sintered metalgear pads in the gold spots with as new metalgear 320 mm discs on the yzf 750 front ...gotta find a 14mm master soon...

still got a little low speed pulsation... :roll:

please let it be the old 5/8 master.. [-o<
Check this out: www.partshark.com, part number 5VY-W2587-00-00

Radial Brembo from a 2004 R1, first year of Radial gold spots, which should be the same as our gold spots but just mounted radially. Don't know if it's 5/8ths or whatever, but it should work well.

As soon as I sell my race suit, I'm ordering one ;)

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