Motogp Carbon Brakes

The brake disc carbon discs allow a considerable decrease in weight on unsprung masses significantly reduce the gyroscopic effect improving bike handling and provide performance far.

Motogp carbon brakes. Shaving weight off a motorcycle always leads to better power to weight ratio but that s not all. For motogp racing brembo offers two different calipers rated for light or heavy duty and four different types of carbon discs. There are 320mm and 340mm disc options each with the choice of a. Before the use of carbon the discs were steel and the pads an organic material.

Recent statistics show these brakes allow a motogp bike to go from 300kph to under 100 in about 5 seconds using only 300m of track. Steel brakes used to be the norm but today they re usually only used in rainy conditions. Brake use during the aragon motogp grand prix like with superbike the motogp riders use their brakes on 11 of the 17 bends at motorland aragón. Instead the repsol honda team has innovative front brakes made of carbon.

This lightweight material has an enormous braking capacity but its lifespan in brake discs is usually much shorter than steel only about 1000 km. The bikes go from 295 km h to 108 km h 183 to 67 mph by braking for 4 5 seconds while the brake fluid pressure reaches 13 6 bar. This year also sees forged magnesium wheels used by the majority of the riders competing in motogp. The riders exert a load of 6 4 kg 14 lbs on the brake lever are subjected to 1 5 g deceleration and in the meantime cover a distance of 239 meters.

The immediately obvious advantage when you pick up a carbon brake rotor versus a steel one is how much lighter the carbon disk weighs. There are three seven poke wheels variants for the front. The real advantage for motorcycle racing is that a faster. This does equate to less durability with carbon brakes only lasting about 1000 kms.

This is carbon and it was then used to manufacture the discs of premier class bikes the first for the 500 class and then for motogp and briefly for the 250 class. Tech talk with simon crafar.