Radial Mount Calipers

[JamesM71]

Has anyone tried radial mount calipers? I’m looking at buying a set from Japan just to get the mounts then have a few sets made. My friend passed almost two months ago and his brother let me have wayyyy too many calipers… Radial, mono bloc and gold. I won’t have mounts for the gold but if anyone has mounts for the radial or dimms I can have them made from…???

 

[Fire-medic]

That would be interesting to see what calipers work better.

 

[one2dmax]

You are offsetting any benefit of the radials reduction in flex by having the bracket. So in general there is no benefit provided you have the same piston volume, pad surface, or rotor diameter changes. If you increase any of those features then you will get some benefit from the change. Otherwise just get simpler adapters or bolt on calipers that can increase at least one of those features.