| Back in 2001 when the Reve Racing team first put radial brakes on their bikes I had a chat with John Reynolds and asked him what he thought, his response was that he couldn't feel any difference and his lap times were near enough identical, although it was early days and they had more testing to do. But, the main benefit to the team was being able to quickly switch front wheels with different diameter discs, just by adding or removing the spacers between the caliper and fork bottom.
Incidentally in the recent MCN test of various 600's the bike with the best stopping distance was the only one without radial brakes - it was the Triumph complete with own brand conventional caliper set up! |