Radial calliper conversion

[Willthedub]

Has anyone seen a radial calliper adapter for the older monsters?

I can find ones for hyabusas but that's about it.

Googles not my friend at the moment, I seem to be riding him more than the bike! 

[Rudemouthsky]

I would think the easiest way would be to do a full SBK front end conversion, which would take care of your radial calipers in the process depending on what you got...you may need a different front wheel depending on the year of your Monster and new rotors... Motowheels has S&P billet fork bottoms that will allow mounting of 100mm radial calipers but it isn't cheap, very impractical unless you have $ invested in upgrading your current forks. There are also used to be brackets available that allow one to go from 40 or 65mm centers to 100mm.

[stopintime]

For 43mm Showas, if that's what you have...

http://www.motocorsestore.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=75&category_id=46&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=2

[Willthedub]

Youre right rudemouthsky the way to go would have been a whole fork conversion, I really should have thought about this before buying new wheels, top and bottom yoke and fork upgrades.  how a minor detail can have such a big influence!

Those motocorse ones do look slick! Don't think I can justify tho expense though

Maybe a custom adapter can be made?

Or just suck it up and live with the ones that fit I'm not sure if there is actually much of a difference except the bling!

[Rudemouthsky]

Oh if you want bling, you can get some ISR's that'll go on 65mm centers...they are 4 or 6 piston monoblocks so they oughtta stop a freight train but look bad azz as well.

http://www.isr-brakes.se/products/calipers/



Complete the setup with ISR masters and built in ISR switches so you can ditch the OE switchblocks...oh yeah:





You have no idea how bad I wish I'd gotten ^that setup...I found very nice brand new old stock Brembos I couldn't resist instead (which do work great to be fair) and Brembo RCS masters.

But I'm in the same boat as you...spent a bunch of cash on new wheels and upgrading fork internals when I should have just rebuilt some SBK gold TiN'd Showas and saved a bunch of cash, plus had a world of wheel and caliper options to boot 

[Willthedub]

Oh Lordy!  that is some bling!

I also stayed loyal to Ducati and bought the brembo billet master cylinders , you can't go wrong with them and I like how understated they look




And after doing this to my forks



And this to my wheels




I'm kicking myself harder than you can imagine!

[Rudemouthsky]

Oh man...those wheels and tires are delicious!  can't wait to see the finished bike! Fukn loooove those tires...

Someone even more irrational than me, that's great to see! 

[Willthedub]

Can't wait to finish it!

Glad to see we are on the same level!