kwikonit Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 Hi, looking to start a café racer project and have a bike lined up. It has a single front break caliper and looking to at least get the standard stanchion on the right side to add the same year caliper, will the hub accept the rotor or are the single/double break hubs different? I want to keep the wire wheels but would be interested in maybe upgrading the forks and calipers to nissin four pots... if its relatively straight forward. If not ill just upgrade the spings/oil and good pads on the stock calipers... thoughts and experience anyone? Thanks Shane Quote Link to comment
CockneyRick Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 Did the modern upgrade on mine (sometimes wish i hadn't) so i would ask @Rsvfletchwhat he did Quote Link to comment
Gammaboy Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 On 9/4/2018 at 10:05 AM, kwikonit said: Hi, looking to start a café racer project and have a bike lined up. It has a single front break caliper and looking to at least get the standard stanchion on the right side to add the same year caliper, will the hub accept the rotor or are the single/double break hubs different? I want to keep the wire wheels but would be interested in maybe upgrading the forks and calipers to nissin four pots... if its relatively straight forward. If not ill just upgrade the spings/oil and good pads on the stock calipers... thoughts and experience anyone? Thanks Shane The wire wheel hubs will take a rotor on each side. It's pretty easy to upgrade the early front brakes to a set of Gurls blouse VFR800 rotors and SV650 calipers with some brackets and spacers. Quote Link to comment
gshub Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Got GSX1100 et discs and callipers fitted my Gs1000s ,but stock alloy wheels .. Quote Link to comment
Gammaboy Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 On 9/6/2018 at 5:13 AM, gshub said: Got GSX1100 et discs and callipers fitted my Gs1000s ,but stock alloy wheels .. That's not much of an upgrade over the GS brakes! Quote Link to comment
gshub Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 Put any more Brake power through a tiny front Tyre You are big trouble I have locked it a few times MOT testers have also commented how good they are as well.. Quote Link to comment
Rsvfletch Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 I have bandit forks and GSX1100 power screen calipers which work well Quote Link to comment
Fjbj40 Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 16 minutes ago, busa1300 said: SaltyMonk upgrade from GSR? Quote Link to comment
Gammaboy Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 On 9/8/2018 at 6:27 PM, gshub said: Put any more Brake power through a tiny front Tyre You are big trouble I have locked it a few times MOT testers have also commented how good they are as well.. They're fucking terrible, your MOT testers are on drugs. Quote Link to comment
Gammaboy Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 Anyway, this is my upgrade: 1 Quote Link to comment
jensvonbustenskjold Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 MAybe at bit late, but I found this site. I think it's a list of calipers you can use: https://rbitter.home.xs4all.nl/GS1000_front-brake-upgrade.html Quote Link to comment
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