Sintered vs Organic Motorycle Brake Pads | What's The Difference?

Sintered vs Organic vs Semi-Metallic motorcycle brake pads. Differences, pros & cons and what's best for your bike.

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[julian]

I just use my foot as our ancestors intended, full organic, kinda hard on the knees though. lol

[kweenie]

These explaining videos teach me so much i never knew every time i love it! Cheers man

[brentbauer]

To my understanding break pads are always partially touching the rotors and are never truly cold. I do not think I have ever spun a wheel and not kinda heard the pads lightly rubbing. Great information.

[joek]

Hey, recent subscriber. I just learned that a bunch of Brembo calipers are all largely the same - usually 108mm and once in a while 100mm and 110mm, stud to stud (radial). The distance from the wheel hub changes to accommodate disc sizes, so your bracket or spacing changes bike-to-bike, but not much else, and sometimes they just plop right in, no nothing needed. I'm putting (having put on, be real here) Cafe's on my bike this weekend thru next and I'm blown away that I even could.

I always assumed that each bike took it's own specific part number of caliper, like a car might. Come to find out, almost everybody went with 108mm, just different sized discs and spacing. So if you have a weird bike, or a new bike and they don't make anything yet, if you mind your pot sizes, and you know your dimensions AND find a complementary master, you can put 'bos on a bike that didn't used to have them.

Support your local machine shop. They can do your spacer up in like a day. The bad news is it's fronts only and its well over $1, 000, lines, calipers and master.

[beborodner]

I prefer parachutes to slowdown, but you know.. it's still nice to know these things.

[IN_ZANE_]

What's that brake setup @ 4:50 with the caliper sliding around the wheel??

[mlnuwan]

I use EBC organic pads since 2013 on my Hornet, best brand & pads for me

[lucasvbuts]

always nice videos keep it up from the netherlands!

[andypughtube]

FWIW I used OEM Yamaha sintered pads on my OEM brakes on my R1 and it took 110, 000 miles before the MOT inspector insisted that it was time to change the discs.
So I don't think that brake wear is _that_ much of an issue even with high-performance pads. I have lost track of how many sets of pads I went through in that time, I would guess at least 10 but it's such a quick and easy job that it doesn't really register.

[kosta]

Brembo have this handy-dandy little graph on their website showing how different pad compounds' frictiom coefficient varies with temperature. One of those compounds had an almost completely flat responce acroas the board. From a usabilify and rideability perspective that's the optimum solution. Those brakes will feel exactly the same no matter what. Nothinf inspires more confidence in a system than consistent performance like that.

That particular compound hasn't got the highest coefficient of friction, so they recommend it moatly for atreet use, but I say it's just as good for the track.

As far as lever feel and overall "power"... you can tune that with the right master cylinder. Any radial unit will feel infinitely better than the stock axial, delivering more precision and control. Sizing it correctly will deliver the right feel and most usable braking "power". The Brembo RCS line is good for that, it offers an adjustment equivalent to about 10% of overall mechanical advantage. The corsa corta feature is neat, but to me it doesn't bring enough benefit to justify the added cost of those units. If I had to buy again, I'd stick with the regular RCS.

[kbearpro]

Great video bud. I like all the cool info. Thank you! Keep up the great work 😎👍

[mtalcre]

3:38 hey, that's at the Barber museum in Alabama. I recognized a place! XD

[thegamingmachetesxi]

I really like your videos, but could you change ur slides in your videos to Dark-Mode, the white screens always blinds me lol

[mrmoon]

I’ve used organic pads I think they cause the disc to overheat and warp, it happened both front and back when I replaced them both with organic, they also ware away in a matter of weeks

[ktkace]

I mix and match carbon/ceramic/sintered on all my bikes....
Linear and good braking feel are paramount for street (read : UNPREDICTABLE) conditions

[afox]

I always thought that organic braking pads were made out of mud

[kkhalifah]

Now there are also ceramic brake pads. Where do these sit in the grand scheme of things?

[andrewhogg]

disagree with sintered pads warming up fast, i swapped the sintered to organics on my RGV250 as they took about 15 minutes of normal riding to warm up, the organics seemed to work fine from the first pull. Can't beat the stopping power of the sintered once they were warmed up though.

[jayjethwa]

What to do if i lost my progression pn my front brake ? On my duke 390

[kimwblaze]

I'd rather change organic pads more often, than changing the rotors more frequently from being worn down by sintered pads. I think it will be a lot cheaper in the long run...