Friday, August 2, 2013

That's the Brakes



I'd love to put a set of PM rear calipers on this bike, but I don't have an extra six-hundred bucks laying around. Screwing around in the shop last night with a set of stock XL calipers and they seemed to nestle into the frame nicely. The stock Sportster caliper uses the swingarm as an anchor. Considering tacking a piece of 1 1/2" channel to the inside of the bottom tail section of the frame. I'll need a shorter axle adjuster as well.

Love to hear from anyone who's done this or something similar and can enlighten me.


6 comments:

  1. Make sure to leave room for the caliper to slide with the wheel. That's tough with nothing moving parallel to the axle travel. Maybe a stay bar or a tie rod (in tension) is a better choice for this. As for the axle, I would just use a bolt and jam nut in the opposite direction, Maybe a socket head.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Thanks Ry. Confirms my concerns about binding as the axle was adjusted. Have a great weekend, Man.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Take a look at a stock Harley softail set up. I put one on a rigid few years back and it was'nt much of a stretch . Don't know if this brake is like that or not.

    ReplyDelete
  4. B.C. I'm not familiar enough with a Softail caliper to know if they'll work on a right-side drive Sporty, but if so it's an option.

    ReplyDelete
  5. ahhh, rear brakes? to tell you the truth hermit i don't use them unless i'm riding on wet grass or gravel or both, i just use the front brake, it's much more effective, i generally use the brembo four-pot caliper [off ducati's various models, dirt cheap, easily found on e-bay etc and a great brake caliper for a few dollars] i used a drum brake on my sporty hardtail bike, light, cheap and let's face it who ever uses a rear brake?, you can lose loads of un-sprung weight, [the disc weighs a bloody ton, you are riding around with something you rarely use] even on my race bikes i can't remember using my rear brake, ok, apart from the time when i fucked it up at snetterton on the 250 mz when i went into the chicane 30 miles an hour too fast on wet grass and somehow managed to keep the plot together by standing on the rear brake] and anyway, a drum rear looks ace to boot, just saying.....

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Yeah Loveless I might just go all Fred Flinstone.

      I've been dragging my feet on this build anyway.

      Delete