How much, Brake pads.

[1948man]

Where's a good place to buy brake pads? They're like $50 a set at Alpha Sports.

[rustybronco]

You can buy them from on-line vendors... Z1enterprises.com is one vender.
aftermarket brands like ebc, vesra, ect.

http://www.z1enterprises.com/detail.aspx?ID=1321

http://www.z1enterprises.com/detail.aspx?ID=1332

I just bought ferodo rears for 14.95 shipped off of Ebay.

[Grandpa]

I always get them on eBay, both for my GS bikes and now for my Venture. I bid the minimum and stay there. If I get it, I win; if not, I try again. One must be patient at the eBay game and not need the pads right away.

I recently got three sets of pads for my Venture for $30 plus shipping. I was the only bidder. They're an off brand, yet they work just fine both front and rear.

Nick Diaz
Middletown, MD

[rustybronco]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Suzuki-GS1100-GS-1100-FR-R-Brake-Pads-82-83_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp3286Q2em20Q2el1116QQhashZitem29ffb238baQQitemZ180383529146QQptZMotorcyclesQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

[Nessism]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Suzuk...Q5fAccessories

Rusty,
Those pads are sintered so not good. As far as ebay goes, it helps to understand what Suzuki models use the came pads are your bike - that way you can do a search. Many of the GS models shared brake pads so it helps to do some research.

[1948man]

Thanks. The Z1 pads are the same one used on the BassCliff tutorial and for half the Alpha Sports price. I guess they should fit my 1100GL.

[Grandpa]

Stop the guessing. The eBay ones rustybronco pointed out will fit your 1100GL. The equivalent of EBC 36 on the rear and 51 on the front.

These pads will fit every large GS shafty, and probably a lot of chainies. I'm talking about all 850G's and GL's, 1000G's and GL's, and 1100G's, GL's, and GK's.

The only exception is the front of the 1979 GS850G, which took round pads. The rear of the 79 GS850G also took the 36 pad.

Sintered pads are good! I always had them on my GS shafties.

Nick Diaz
Middletown, MD

[Nessism]

Sintered pads are designed for very hard rotors, harder than our GS rotors. If you use them anyway, they will tear up your rotors. The stock pads were not sintered, the popular EBC pads are not sintered, nor are most other aftermarket brake pads. Frankly, I don't know why these companies even bother to make sintered pads for GS bikes since they are not the proper material for this application.

[errorcauser]

Sintered pads are designed for very hard rotors, harder than our GS rotors. If you use them anyway, they will tear up your rotors. The stock pads were not sintered, the popular EBC pads are not sintered, nor are most other aftermarket brake pads. Frankly, I don't know why these companies even bother to make sintered pads for GS bikes since they are not the proper material for this application.

Are these pads (sintered) the same as the full metallic pads on cars, that squeak everywhere you go ? Just wondering, thats all.

[Grandpa]

Sintered pads are designed for very hard rotors, harder than our GS rotors. If you use them anyway, they will tear up your rotors. The stock pads were not sintered, the popular EBC pads are not sintered, nor are most other aftermarket brake pads. Frankly, I don't know why these companies even bother to make sintered pads for GS bikes since they are not the proper material for this application.

Yeah, but I went on eBay and got myself a good used set of rotors for about $10 each. Sintered pads worked just fine on my GS bikes for quite a few years.

[rustybronco]

http://www.ebcbrakes.com/motorcycle_brake/sintered_brake_pads/double_h_superbike_pads/double-h.shtml

We took out several other particles which our competitors still use which caused massive disc damage and created our launch material.

I don't know how hard the linked pads are on rotors.
a little more research would be needed...

[Nessism]

HH sintered pads are the ones that typically tear up soft stainless brake rotors like our GS bikes use. Use what you want but I advise against this type of pad unless you are aware of what you are getting yourself into.

As for Grandpa, yup, you're nuts as always...but that's why we love ya.

[Grandpa]

Yeah, Nessism, but who had a total of 23 years and 270,000 miles on GS shafties? 132,500 miles on the GK, all on original discs, front and rear -- all the time using sintered pads, front and rear!

Nessism, my good nutty friend, you exaggerate the consequences of sintered pads. They worked great on my GS bikes.

1948man, get sintered pads. Get them cheap on eBay. Nessism is nuts!

Nutty Grandpa Nick
Middletown, MD

[Nessism]

Yeah, Nessism, but who had a total of 23 years and 270,000 miles on GS shafties? 132,500 miles on the GK, all on original discs, front and rear -- all the time using sintered pads, front and rear!

Nessism, my good nutty friend, you exaggerate the consequences of sintered pads. They worked great on my GS bikes.

1948man, get sintered pads. Get them cheap on eBay. Nessism is nuts!

Nutty Grandpa Nick
Middletown, MD

Hey Grandpa,
we've been reading your rants expounding on the virtues of cheap brake pads for years now and you have gone on record as saying you buy what's cheap regardless of brand. http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...9&postcount=13

Right now I have a set of front and rear EBC pads waiting, hanging from a nail in the garage. Why EBC? Because they're cheap. I've tried Ferodo, Vesrah, EBC, stock Suzuki, SBS, generic brands, and no difference whatever.

As far as I know, EBC pads are organic, not sintered, and so are Vesrah, Suzuki brand, and most likely most of those others you have used. Sintered pads are actually very rare as far as availability in GS sizes because the engineers know they are incompatible with our rotors. Most of the sintered pads for our bikes are elchepo generic junk, most likely made in a third world country where they don't do real engineering work to see what friction material works best with what type of rotor.

Again, use what you want but you are confusing the issue with your contrary information to what you have said in the past.

[chef1366]

I glue brillo pads on my old worn out brakes.