Transalp Brakes
From GummyCarbs
- This thread mentions a guy making a spacer so you can use a stock Hawk rotor (316mm) on the TA (276mm stock).
Anyway- potential very good news- I asked the guy who built a brake kit for Honda Hawks (a 6 piston caliper and GSXr rotor- works great- I have one on my Hawk) to look at a potential TA solution. He designed and built a bracket that relocates the stock TA caliper so that you can use a stock Hawk rotor which is larger (and I think a little thicker) than the stock TA rotor. Combined with steel braided lines and HH pads (which he thinks might not even be necessary) this should provide a relatively inexpensive upgrade to the TA. I should be doing this in the next month or so and will let you all know how it works. Keep fingers crossed
- This thread mentions the Hawk rotor again.
Stainless brake line is a good investment. Speigler, and Galfer both offer one. Maybe others. The trick brake upgrade is get a used rotor from 88-91 NT650 Hawk. Same bolt pattern but 40mm bigger diameter. Then you have to machine an adapter to offset the caliper. I'm working on this now.
The Transalp brake is 276mm, the Hawk rotor is 316mm (Hawk data from here).
Also:
Steve (Fast By Big Boy) Lenac (bigboy11@sigmaweb.net) has (or will shortly have) the full kits for this. I have one on mine (shown in the "show me" thread) and it makes a difference.
Hawk Rotors
EBC MD1021LS | |
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$168.95 | MAW |
$174 | Ron Ayers |
$179 | AZ Motorsports |
Braking (wave) HO26FLD (that's ho, not h-zero) | |
$186.95 ($200.36 w/S/H) | Streetbike Accessory Warehouse |
$203.88 | Motorcycleproshop |
$212 | Cyclepages |
$214.95 | AZ Motorsports |
Galfer (stainless) DF022 (022) | |
$185.35 | AZ Motorsports |
The Braking wave-rotor page is here.