titanium brakes?

 

anyone use Ti  rotors?
some formula 1 racers have... as well as some airplane/car nuts I know..
just wondering about the dirt bikers
john

 


Another pandora's box tech-thread begins...

Does it have an advantage other than weight?

How does it handle the heat- better than iron-based?

Side-note: what the heck is the advantage of radial-mount calipers?

Dave

 


we can build it stronger faster....
queue: six million dollar man music......

anyhow the idea is light, strong, good heat tolerance/dissipating.

often the brakes on the "corvettes" are cross drilled & textured for a
strange rapid pulsing, odd noise yet vastly improved braking power...

http://www.yoyodyneti.com/Category.aspx?CategoryID&95

reducing rotating & unsprung weight
john
    "Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of
eighty and gradually approach eighteen."  Mark Twain

 

XR650L_Dave asks:



They are stiffer but that's not because they are radial mount
necessarily.  You can make really stiff pin mounted calipers
too.

This does a better job than I can do though I don't buy
all of the direction of force baloney:

http://www.motorcycle.com/how-to/radialmount-calipers-3414.html


Go fast. Take chances.
Mike S.

 



Interesting.
One tidbit in there gets back to the original questionm maybe: "Rotors with
less material mass and heat sink capability often suffer more from fatal
thermal stress distortion. ".