Brake conversion?

 

As said doing up a HONDA CB100N, and with the fuel post being quite
positive, moving on to the renovation.

Just dismantled the front brake, ouch.

I can see why they often went wrong.

thing is I can get a conversion for my sons push bike to use hydraulic
brakes, same as the car, so is there a conversion anyone here may know of
that will improve the cable system on this bike?

Again all help gleefully received.

Cheers Vaughn

 



How much money do you want to spend? The easiest thing to do would be to look
for a similar bike from Honda with the right fork diameter and spacing, and just
put those in instead.

For instance, a popular conversion was to put CBR600f forks on a CB-1. I guess
CB-1 riders were afraid that that single disk on one side would make them turn
to one side with every application of the brake.

But this is "just" a CB100N ... How fast will it go? If the brakes are on proper
working order, do they work? Is the effort of putting disk brakes on it
worthwhile?

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and just

Defiantly a major consideration, easy to say as little as poss., but then so
is what ever it costs. If the makeover was worth while, it would be a very
high consideration.


This is the sort of idea I'm looking for. But being fairly new to bikes,
knowing which would swap over is hard.


Now this is the real point. Have made many searches for parts, I need a new
clutch, but during these searches some came up with pages of news chat,
something like this area, and they offered help and advice on many matters.

One which seemed to be of a large part was that although it dose have a Disk
at the front, it is worked using a cable. This cable then operates what they
call a 'Quick screw', which undoes a thread. this rod then pushes out onto
the pad, and so applies the brake.

All the links talk of this getting very sticky, and often letting them down,
even with often oiling services on the cable. Once the hydraulic type are
fitted, they should need little in the way of any real servicing, making
things easier, and possibly safer.

BUT I'm only going by what I've found so far. Others here may have had one
of these, if they are strong enough to admit it ;-), and have a more
personal view, even help.

The top speed of this is supposed to be around the 60 to 65 MPH, and as said
not knowing bikes very well, at this speed are cable things like this the
answer, or not?

I know they have much less wait to stop, so less force is required, but from
what I've seen most bike now have disks all round, operated by hydraulics.

Thanks for the help, any more please forward.

Cheers Vaughn