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Re: [ST] Tale of the EBC brake pads



Al,

Interesting information on the EBCs.  Has anyone on the list tried 
Galfer Pads??

I shouldn't need any for awhile, but after my upcoming trip to Duluth, 
MN from PA, I will need to look at them when I return.

Dave "Olde Dawg" Bardell

Al Garvin wrote:

>I recently was in the market for new front brake pads for my 2000 ST (9200
>miles with about 30 % of the oem pads left). A call to my local Triumph dealer left me in shock at the
>price of a set of OEM style pads. $116.00 (2 sets for one front wheel). I
>had heard good thing about EBC brakes so I called my local bike shop and
>found they had them for $27.95 ea. or $55.90 for a pair. These were the
>FA236 Kevlar pads. I also replaced the rear set with EBC FA214/2 Kevlars. On
>first use of the front brakes I noticed a pronounced scraping sound like
>someone holding sand paper against the rotors. I thought that maybe they
>just need to be bedded in and the sound would go away. After 1500 miles they
>still make the same sound. Worried that I was grinding away my rotors I
>sprung for the OEM Triumph pads.
>They  make no noise and without a doubt stop much quicker than the EBC pads.
>On a scale of 1-10 with the Triumph pads being 10, I would say the feeling I
>got with the EBC pads was about an 8. I still have the EBC pads on the rear
>and they seem to work OK. Neither the Triumph OEM rears or the EBC rears
>work all that well. Has anyone else had any experience with these EBC pads?
>Al "Double Dawg"  Garvin
>2000 ST
>
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