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ZX12R 6 piston brakes 10 years 1 month ago #2060

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I thought Pretech sold billet 6 pots for our bikes that work with standard disks?

I need to do something. I joke about having to plan my braking but it's not too far from the truth when I compare it to the stopping power of my ZZ-R
1980 KZ1300 B2 Touring/A2
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ZX12R 6 piston brakes 10 years 1 month ago #2061

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There has been many different ways I have seen, as I'm sure you all have, over the years to improve the braking system without braking the bank doing it.
I would assume the best option is to graft on a whole front end , forks and all from a ZX14- as Robert has done on the French Canadian bike. MGC has calipers and floating discs as a second best option.
This option of mine was available to me because I had the Hayabusa already- I took the calipers off that bike, worked out the bracket and got the small piece of aluminum machined to fit the kawi forks. Put the original calipers back on the Suzuki and found another set on ebay for the 13. I used Brembo gold master cylinder and rizoma reservoir.
And the other part is "just for appearance sake ".
This post got attention because the original poster was looking for a solution in a very similar fashion to what I came up with.
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ZX12R 6 piston brakes 10 years 1 month ago #2063

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I am not sure which floating disc (if any) will fit the standard 1300 front wheel as I dont have a standard wheel fitted to my bike.

There will be one out there somewhere that will fit I am sure.

I always upgrade any 1300 I have to at least 4 pot calipers as the standard brakes can be a bit scarey, especially in English rain (which we get a lot of up North here) !

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ZX12R 6 piston brakes 10 years 1 month ago #2064

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I really like the look of how those Hayabusa callipers fit.

I think I am going to try this with standard disks and upgrade if I have problems. I doubt I will find anything standard in the way of floating disks that has the correct mounting holes, diameter and offset on another production bike but good old MCG does sell floating disks that fit.
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I took another photo yesterday to try and show the machining on the back side of the bracket but could never get it to load !
Hope it works out for you.
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