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Early 1200 Bandit Brakes Upgrade?
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Has anyone swapped the original 4 pot Nissins for 6 pot Tokicos?
If so did it noticeably improve the braking?
Was it also necessary to change the master cylinder?
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Anyone with an ounce of sense and who knows about these things leaves
the 4 pot Nissins on there. The 6 pot Tokicos are notorious for having
the pistons seize and becoming spongy. They don't work as well as the 4
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Amen to that. A child crying in the next street creates enough salt
water to sieze my Tokico 6 pots.
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You should learn to look after them then. Adies 9R is six years old
and the 6 pots still work perfectly well. Those calipers have 30k
miles on them and have never been stripped and the most I've ever done
to them is use a manky old toothbrush to remove crud when the pads
have been changed.
Before anyone shouts about fair weather riders she uses it to commute
in the winter as well as summer so it's seen salt plenty of times and
even though we've got a set of four pots sitting in the garage waiting
to go on it's only because they've got braided hoses and new pads in
them and we got them for a sensible price.
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pot Tokico calipers as fitted to the TL1000 or the Nissin 4 pots as
fitted to Bandit 1200s and the Triumph range.
I recently stripped a pair of 4 pot Nissins[1] from a 1993 Triumph
Trident Sprint for a check over. This bike has been sat for years and
has been seriously neglected. The calipers were like new once all the
brake dust and road dirt had been cleaned off, not a spot of corrosion
anywhere. Nissin even anodise the inner faces of the caliper including
the seal grooves, so they just don't corrode. Tokicos are plain
untreated alloy and fur up at the first sign of moisture.
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Amen to that.
I should've photographed AndrewR's old ones, before I started spraying
brake cleaner on them: more fur than a teddy bears' picnic.
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Many club racers who had GSX-R1000 K1 and K2s threw their Tokico 6 pots
away and fitted the 4 pots off the GSX-R750 K1/2/3 instead. The 6 pots
were feeble.
If you fit the Tokico 6 pots you'll be sorely disappointed.
[1] Exactly the same caliper as the Bandit 1200 has, right down to the
90mm bolt spacing. All that's different is the Triumph badging.
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Thanks Lozzo. That's what I needed to know.
Ken.
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My next bike is the 2007 Bandit, 79lb ft at 3700rpm, 0% against rising
inflation for a naked 5 grand. R1 and GSXR make a 86lb ft at 10,000 rp
for 8 grand+
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