Sport bike calipers on an XS, Anyone tried it?

[excess11]

Has anyone tried to put a set of sport bike calipers on an XS. I think a XS would look cool with a set of floating discs and some 6 piston calipers. Let me know if anyone has tried this or any other brake conversion on an XS. What has worked or what did not!!!

[TopCatGr58]

Hey there Excess11,

I got a picture in my email about a guy in Australia IIRC that did something like this, I think he rigged up a bracket to the STOCK caliper clamps to allow a quad piston setup, I think it used the OEM rotors, but not sure, I'm at my laptop right now, not my Desktop machine where I have that email and picture saved. I'll get it out and try to post it later!
T.C.

[Pat Kelly]

Merriam Cycles sells drilled full-floating discs for the XS1100, $200 each.
My E will do stoppies (if I work at it) with my PnM mast cyl and SS hoses.
900 lb (bike and me) as long as the XS wheelbase is is tough to get the back wheel up.
SS hoses will give you all the stopping power you need.
I do agree that multi-piston calipers would look good.

[TopCatGr58]

Hey there Pat and Excess11,

I found those pictures, they were sent to me by Jim Garvey, take a look:




It looks easy enough to do! But like Pat said, SS lines and strong MC should provide plenty of braking power, besides, I DON'T REALLY want to do a Stoppie....I like my back tire ON THE GROUND when I brake!

[Pat Kelly]

I LIKE that fairing.

[scoobes]

check out www.xs1100.co.uk there is a chap there who has got R1 brakes on his xs work very well he told me.

[excess11]

Sport brakes

I found this site xs650 stuff Looks interesting?????????? Once on this link click on the icon about mid page on the right that says xs650

[jimg1au]

SPORT BIKE CALIPERS

PAT
the faring was off a cb honda i dont know what year.the whole bike solde privatly for 1000.00 ausd about 700.00 us it also had a big bore kit in it.i was 1 day to late to buy had to talk chris into it.she taks some convincing.any way i have a cb1100rc full faring that is going on my blue std during winter. ibought it on ebay for 50.00aus with brackets
cheers
jim garvey

[skids]

That doesn't look like the typical special's fork/slider. Don't the forks lead the axle on a special to give the appearance of a raked-out front end?

Originally posted by TopCatGr58
Hey there Pat and Excess11,

I found those pictures, they were sent to me by Jim Garvey, take a look:

[skids]

OOOPS! I spoke without checking first. Sorry. Memory is fading fast...

Originally posted by skids
That doesn't look like the typical special's fork/slider. Don't the forks lead the axle on a special to give the appearance of a raked-out front end?

[Mike F]

Just putting a link into scoobes reply for the UK XS11 site pic. Try
http://www.xs1100.co.uk/jpgs/bananna.jpg

Keep revving

Mike Farnworth

[excess11]

BRAKES

They look like Yamaha R1 brakes to me. Here is link to an ebay Item R1 calipers . They look the same to me! The floating discs look like they could be R1 also?

[strom]

Hmmm... don't look even remotely similar to me.
If the color is original, maybe a brembo oro series?
Maybe not...

LP

[jimg1au]

gsx750 brakes

the guy who sold it said they were gsx750 brakes.they are no ri as the blokes at work have r1 and r6s and dont look like that.
ps
dont r1s go hard