mangocrazy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 8:21 pm
So BMW have switched from Brembo to Nissin. I presume money has changed hands to facilitate this?
They were Nissin last year as well, can’t remember what they were the year prior to that.
As for the road bike they came away from Brembo for the 2019 K67 model and have been their own since, Hayes initially and possibly since. The brakes are phenomenal.
OK, didn't know that. Modern brakes are phenomenal, full stop. I've not used modern Nissins, but the Duke 690R has a single Brembo M50 caliper up front and the power and feel are bonkers. I can't begin to imagine what having 2 of them would be like. I'm sure Nissin's equivalent are equally gob-smacking.
I’ve just read that in fact BMW have switched from Nissin to Brembo but were at times testing them back to back just to see the differences.
That's really confusing. I thought they'd switched from Brembo to Nissin, but now it seems that it's the other way round (Nissin to Brembo). If I was asked which I'd prefer it would be Brembo every time, but I'm not a WSBK or MotoGP racer. My experience of Nissins is decades old, so totally unfair to draw any conclusions from that. I know that Brembo have been doing a lot of work to reduce heat in the calipers, so maybe that's what Loris Baz is referring to.
Supermofo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 10:05 am
The quality of parts/components on WSB/MotoGP bikes is jaw dropping. To me race brake calipers are like works of art
Yes, rigidity vs. lightness. And exotic materials.
