What Brake Pads with Iron Discs

Dibble · Scooby Slapper Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Karma :

I've fitted my old Moto Guzzi V50 with Suzuki SV650 calipers with Carbone Lorraine pads.

I have to use the old Iron(?) discs but someone has told me these aren't compatible with the pads.

Which pad materials work with which discs and can you get them for my calipers??

Dibble

p.s. if I break really hard the front judders ,it feels like the wheel is 50p coin shaped, I presume this is poor(completely absent) damping on the front forks.

Anybody got a pair of cartridges for KTM sx50 or Marzocchi pit bike forks???

MarkJ · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Karma :

The juddering sounds like headstock bearings to me.

I haven't heard of certain pads for certain discs, all I can think of is your mate thinks you have carbon ceramic pads or something, with them being called Carbone Lorraine? I might be wrong

SamJL · Nearly there... Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Karma :

Another vote for headstock bearings, can you feel it knock if you brake sharply from slow speeds?

Also Carbone Lorraine pads are freaking awesome, I used them on my car, but they ate through my discs and at £480 for a new set of disc's, I was not happy, awesome pads though!
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Dibble · Scooby Slapper Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Karma :

SamJL · Nearly there... Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Karma :

It might not be, I'm no mechanic, but it just sounds like it could be.

It could be a number of other things as well, I wouldn't take my word for it!

On the plus side, you have an awesome set of pad's Very Happy

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Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Hi

Had a similar thing with some cast iron disks on my FZ750. Plenty of pads seem to stick to cast iron disks (especially sintered pads) and these seemed to have left a "mark" of the disk that the pads seemed to judder over (same effect as warped disks).

All the best

Keith
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Noxious89123 · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Karma :

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Dibble · Scooby Slapper Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Karma :

There's no straight swap. It's either get an adapter made or use too tall a bearing and miss a locknut out Shocked

The Disc/Pad incompatibility problem is apparently called "Graphite Glazing" but google gives me nothing .