Brakes

[Ron Moss]

I'm new to the XS, the last Yamaha I owned was a RD 350. I replaced the fork seals in my XS 1100 today and while I was at it thought I would do the front brakes also. I called a local M/C parts house and asked if they had pads for my '79 XS 1100 Special, they did , I rode the Honda over to pick them up, got home and found that they were the wrong ones. We double checked the books and the #'s were right. The ones we found that fit were for a '81. Anyone know what the problem is. I know the bike is stock, I bought it from the original owner. It's not a big deal just curious.
'79 XS 1100 Yamaha
'77 Goldwing
'84 V65 Honda Magna

[procamper]

dont know about your fork seals, but I just wanted to chime in to drool over your rd350! Im starting to look around for a two cycle roadbike, they sound like fun! I know yamaha had thier rd250 and 350, and kawsaki had thier h1 and h2's, but did honda make any of the same type?

Maybe I should look for a old 2-cycle enduro and kill two bike dreams with one stone. hehe.. you can never have enough motorcycles...

[sixtysix]

79, 80 and 81 SPECIAL all take the same pads, so do all the years of standards, unfortunatly they are not the same as each other. a standard and special have the same rear pads which are the same as the fronts on a standard. A special has an angle cut front pad. So chances are you were given the pads for a standard.

[oldfart]

brakes

Sixtysix is dead-on Ron!...Will