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Sintered brake pads

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Hi all...I've been looking to purchase rear pads for a 1983 GS1100E online. I'm being asked if the bike requires 'sintered' brake pads or not.
Can somebody explain what 'sintered' means?

Thankyou
 
Sintered pads are tough on the GS rotors, which are softer than the stainless rotors on modern bikes. I recommend staying with organic pads or similar.

BTW, EBC only makes organic brake pads for most GS bikes.
 
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Iv'e tried many pad compounds, organic, semi-metallics, kevlars, and I prefer the EBC "HH" compound .The EBC's seem to offer the best "compramise" of excellent bite, and minimal wear on your iron or soft steel rotors. EBC organics offer the least bite, but your rotors will last a lifetime. Stay away from race pads, they are designed to have fantastic bite through severall heat cycles (races) then thier performance fades very quickly and they are junk and need to be replaced. I bought Ferodo race pads years ago thinking I was Jo cool racer, and they absolutely sucked on the street.
 
Iv'e tried many pad compounds, organic, semi-metallics, kevlars, and I prefer the EBC "HH" compound .The EBC's seem to offer the best "compramise" of excellent bite, and minimal wear on your iron or soft steel rotors. EBC organics offer the least bite, but your rotors will last a lifetime. Stay away from race pads, they are designed to have fantastic bite through severall heat cycles (races) then thier performance fades very quickly and they are junk and need to be replaced. I bought Ferodo race pads years ago thinking I was Jo cool racer, and they absolutely sucked on the street.

According to the EBC catalog available on-line, they don't sell HH pads for GS bikes other than the later model 1150 and 16V 550.
 
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