HH brake pads?

Well I finally got the punky buellsters 2000 buell blast transmission pressed back together and am putting the engine together on the bench. After 1 year it is nice to make some progress.

Well if I remember correctly, it has been awhile, I needed new front brake pads last time I rode, long damn time ago. When I was researching pads last time I found that I can get some sintered HH brake pads which are one of the harder compounds.

Anyone have any experience with HH pads? Are they hard when cold or screetch until they wear in.

Thanks and with me luck!

Unless you are really hard on the brakes or road racing, I haven't seen the need. I put them on one of my older bikes. When warmed up, they were great, but they wore the rotors-really much quicker. Overall, for normal riding, I have found organics much better for all but competition use.

Maybe I'll go for organic pads in front and the sintered pads in the rear. The blast actually stops really will so I don't think I will be improving anything by switching. I'd say front pads last around 10000miles where the rears last around 5000miles as I am hard on brakes. I remember living down in Dago and running up and down palamar mountain a few time, I litterally burned about 1/4 of the rear brake pads.

Thanks for the insight Minimac!

I was on EBC HH pads as soon as they came out around '96. They were a monumental improvement of the Green Stuff and Ferodos we'd been using. I have a picture somewhere of daylight clearly visible under my rear tire braking for T1 at Summit shortly after making the switch.

That said, they're pretty aggressive, and at least the original compound had a pretty abrupt initial engagement.

Not sure if they're available for the Be-Last, but Carbone Lorraine make some awesome pads - worth looking into.

Also - unless one is riding freakishly hard in the rain, rear brake pads should last about forever if you're doing it right.

The amount of attention used to modulate rear brake when the fronts have enough torque to easily put daylight under the rear wheel, for all but the very best riders would better be spent on modulating front brake and reading the corner.

I'll use a ~little~ rear brake to settle the bike right before turn-in, but if I'm in a hurry I concentrate on front.

Yeah one thing I didn't like about my moms sportster 1200 is it didn't feel like the front brakes do anything. The blast uses nissin calipers and if you get to used to the front brake they can literally throw you off of the bike.

I'm getting back into riding it should take a good month or two to get my mad tyte skillz back. There is still a bit of front brake pad left and I have a spare rotor so I'll keep figure out which pads to get. The ones I'm considering are FA196hh and FA140hh. I'll let you know what I choose and how they work out.

Sure a blast isn't a ktm or rattly ducati, but they are a fun bike to ride. Ride a modified blast before you dismiss them, a short wheel base, light weight, 500cc thumper is a hell of a lot of fun to ride around town. Come cut lanes through frisco or race up california st and you will appreciate light weight and manueverability over all out power. Oh, and if/when I crash they are cheap to repair. Lay down a ktm or ducati and you are talking hundred of dollars in repair parts.

Well I killed the rear organic brake pads in short order(3-4k miles of hard hill riding and 0-60-0 stop light shuffles). I ordered up ebc sintered HH pads and just installed them. Wish me luck, if you don't hear back from me there is a good chance the brakes bucked me off like a bronco.

My kawa specs ebc HH sintered. They aren't that bad and don't really fade.

Don't notice any difference, seem a bit less grabby than the organics. I'm still breaking them in though. Maybe brake compounds aren't that special, either brakes work or they don't. I don't think I've ever had brake fade before, but hell if I know.

Thanks everyone, I'll keep you posted as to how it works.

That's interesting, I went from stock to galfer hh's on one of my bikes with ebc xtralite rotors and it was like night and day, I guess the rotor change could have had something to do with it as well though.

In reply to ahutson03:

His buell might not be as noticable due to the rim sized single brake rotor he has......its also possible his brake master might not be allowing any more gain. I have to go to zx14 brembo's with the zx14 master for the front if I want "ZOMG stoppie" for my bike.