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  • Neale
    Neale
    1 month
    Anybody have experience with these branded brake pads?
    Put them in this morning, half the price of genuine.
    I’ve only ever used genuine hd pads on my FLHT, so I’m curious to know. Thanks in advance.
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  • tussuck
    tussuck
    1 month
    Never heard of them tbh.  I normally run genuine pads cause they are well priced and last a while.

    If I am in a generous mood I'll buy Lyndall Gold pads which are the bees knees!
  • speedzter
    speedzter
    1 month
    I used them many years ago on a Jap bikes.
    They used to be called Dunlopad - made in England.
    Can't say what they are like now, but they should work !
  • Neale
    Neale
    1 month
    Quoting speedzter on 30 Dec 2024 11:16 PM

    I used them many years ago on a Jap bikes.
    They used to be called Dunlopad - made in England.
    Can't say what they are like now, but they should work !

    It says made in England on the packaging. 
    Seem to feel ok so far.
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    1 month
    Quoting tussuck on 30 Dec 2024 08:11 AM

    Never heard of them tbh.  I normally run genuine pads cause they are well priced and last a while.


    If I am in a generous mood I'll buy Lyndall Gold pads which are the bees knees!

    Lyndall gets my money....great pads.
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    1 month
    Some pads are a bit too harsh on discs, worth keeping an eye on the wear characteristics, pads are cheaper than discs, even if they are of the dusty kind, the sky ain't falling, just an observation.
  • Retroman
    Retroman
    1 month
    Over the last 30 years I will have tried all types of Harley brake pads , "genuine HD" and aftermarket.
    In the olden days of my Jap bike period (1975 to 1995) I have used Dunlopad with no dramas.

    Back in the EVO days of the mid to late 90's I found out that aftermarket pads costing 50% of new genuine price lasted exactly 50% of the K's once fitted. A false economy it seemed.

    One of my riding mates recently put eBay cheepies into his 2015 Fatbob that he bought new and fuck me dead they lasted 50% of the K's as original pads. Fatbob has twin disc front of course. I had prewarned him of that likely outcome but WTF he did it anyway !

    In more recent times I have used Vesrah (bought from a Yamaha shop in the east who were destocking "old" Vesrah HD pads for $30)
    Lyndall and most recently Ferodo.

    Ferodo because one of the local Indy shops had them on the shelf and Lyndall seemed to be both harder to source in Perth WA AND expensive, plus I needed the pads "today" as you often do. The Ferodo seem to brake as well as the Lyndall.

    I have both Vesrah front and Lyndall front and rear pads on the shelf now. Several mates have them done by me.
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    Ferodo springer pads_1.jpg
  • speedzter
    speedzter
    1 month
    Bendix are also now making motorbike pads ( manufactured locally in Ballarat ! )
    They appear to be $70 per caliper .
    No idea how good they are, but I hope they are decent .




  • Retroman
    Retroman
    1 month
    Those Bendix pads look allrighty. I will keep an eye out for them here in WA.
  • Neale
    Neale
    1 month
    Quoting Hilly on 31 Dec 2024 11:26 AM

    Some pads are a bit too harsh on discs, worth keeping an eye on the wear characteristics, pads are cheaper than discs, even if they are of the dusty kind, the sky ain't falling, just an observation.

    Absolutely correct. Sintered pads will chop the shit out of rotors.
    I noticed the front rotors were both warped at the last tyre change. This is the 3rd set of pads from new and it’s one of the reasons I went aftermarket for the first time. Near enough to 140,000 kms so I can’t winge.
  • Wanderer57
    Wanderer57
    1 month
    The Harley Dealer in Singapore told me the same thing about sintered pads chopping rotors. That was back in 2017 on my Heritage which I have still, and I have changed them out a couple of times since. Both rotors are in perfect condition. 

    I have been using EBC Sintered pads all the while. Ill be putting them into the Street Glide when it comes time.

    Sintered pads also keep the bike a lot cleaner when running white walls, which is why I went that way.

    Just my experience.
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    1 month
    Quoting speedzter on 01 Jan 2025 01:56 AM

    Bendix are also now making motorbike pads ( manufactured locally in Ballarat ! )
    They appear to be $70 per caliper .
    No idea how good they are, but I hope they are decent .




    I've used 5 sets of them, worked quite well. If you're using them on a early 90s  single piston front caliper with the pretty well round pads, with the fixed pad secured from the back by a machine screw, measure the length of the machine screw supplied before fitting. The first set I bought just after they were released in Oz was supplied with a machine screw about 2mm too long. When I tightened it up it started to  delaminate the friction material from the backing plate, a horrorshow waiting to happen,, although I discovered it when trying to slide the disc back into the caliper. Not sure when this was, would have to check my maintenance records, but was able to find an email address and let them known. I got a phone  call from their production manager for motorcycle product in England that evening thanking me for the alert, theyd found more in their supply system with the longer screws. The asked if I wanted compensation, I didn’t but they still sent 5 pairs of pads.
    The problem should be long gone, but I'd still check the supplied screw against the old one.
    Good to hear they're now making them in Ballarat.
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    1 month
    Ol super cheap are getting into the scene a bit, I used to use them for oil and brake fluid for the bike but now they have batteries and brake pads as well, they sell k&n so you could probably round up an oil filter as well, maybe even air if you order in, handy for some no doubt.
  • tussuck
    tussuck
    1 month
    plus they accept your old oil back at some stores
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