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Not seen this posted on STW yet, but the new 6 pot Hopes have been announced with a crazy price tag!
Trickstuff need to up their pricing game. 😀
Used to have a set of the old 1st gen 6-pots back in the day, horrendous brakes, needed bleeding every 5 minutes. Hope (sic) these are easier to live with.
I’d have to try them to be sure but I’m doubting the hassle of six pistons to deal with is going to offer any worthwhile benefit.
More detail on Pinkbike but I’ve yet to see a picture of the huge pads. Piston area is on par with other brakes and they will use the existing Evo lever so it’s down to number of pistons and fancy materials to work some magic
Looks like 2 sets of V4/GR4/TR4 pads to me.
Happy about the radial mount - it was mint on the rear of the HB.160 and made spacing out for bigger rotors much easier, but then I'd expect a lot of propaganda from Big Rotor Mount to try and tell us it's a terrible system.
Looks like 2 sets of V4/GR4/TR4 pads to me.
Apparently one big pad has been confirmed
Happy about the radial mount
Well, for most cases it will actually be a +20mm post mount to radial adaptor. Few are going to have a radial mount frame or fork
Well, for most cases it will actually be a +20mm post mount to radial adaptor. Few are going to have a radial mount frame or fork
A new Hope DH bike in the works perhaps?
They look lovely but even if they're twice and good as Hope's 4 pot brakes I'd still stick with my Dominions.
I have a set of the original Mono M4s gathering dust that I seem to recall were about £140 an end!
I enjoy this stuff, it's always good to see what Motorbike Year we're in. This is clearly 1997, when GSXR600 owners will pay a small fortune to upgrade to the 6 pots from the GSXR750, even though they perform pretty much identically while being heavier. The extra pistons provide no noticable benefit except from being Two More, but quickly prove erratic and unreliable, by 1999 the odds of servicing a bike and finding all 12 pistons are working correctly is approximately zero.
In about 2001, everything will reset to 4 pots but on a new incompatible standard. Well 2 standards in fact, which perform absolutely identically but are completely incompatible, for no reason at all. So we can look forward to that in 2030.
Can you get a discount if you don’t have all the fancy packaging that will be in the bin as soon as they are installed
I enjoy this stuff, it's always good to see what Motorbike Year we're in. This is clearly 1997
Came here to say something similar, you beat me to it... Every motorbiker knows at least one person who's ditched the dreaded 6 pots off a ZX9R or ZX12R for far more reliable, simpler and better performing 4 pots after no end of hassle...
ditched the dreaded 6 pots off a ZX9R or ZX12R
...fitted the Tokico 6 pots to my ZZR11 and they are better than the weak OEM 4 pots...
Hated my original 6pot hopes. Ditched them for shimano years ago
I guess if you can buy the brakes you can pay the mechanic to keep on top of them.
