Hating feel of new brake pads

New pads = EBC HH
Old pads = two different unknown types

Old discs oem
New discs oem.

Just changed discs because mot is coming up. I also changed pads as the sets were mismatched.

Before the change my brakes were amazing, just touching the lever you would feel the front dip and a nice progressive brake. Now there is no instant biting feel at all, it just feels poor how ever hard i press, and its much easier to lock the front. I've never locked the front since owning it!!! This is my first pad change on a big bike, please say they will improve after a week or so, i hate them.

Infact it feels exactly the same as the two other bikes i've ridden, crap(to me). Maybe this is normal for HH pads?

New pads = EBC HH
Old pads = two different unknown types

Old discs OEM
New discs OEM.

How many miles have you given them to bed in? Go easy on them until they do, you don't want to get them too hot yet.

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

How many miles have you given them to bed in? Go easy on them until they do, you don't want to get them too hot yet.

1. lol

Not bedded them in yet, only ever changed pads on a my 125 before and i didn't notice a difference at all from the go.

Staying in until its dry now, not using these in the wet. I just wanted to see if they are always this crap when first changed before bedded.

Originally Posted by beabert

I just wanted to see if they are always this crap when first changed before bedded.

Well there can be a difference between different brands/types of pad and disk for sure, so it's difficult to say since you don't know what was in there before. But yes, new pads on new disks, in general don't perform as well until they are properly bedded in.

You might want to read this recent thread on different pads
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.p...ght=brake+pads

Need to bed in about 20 miles should do it

Ive got a feeling there will be a full front set of ebc hh pads with 20 miles on going cheap soon lol.

[Bibio]

just a thought.
did you clean the new discs with brake cleaner?
did you service the callipers before putting them back on?

Originally Posted by Bibio

just a thought.
did you clean the new discs with brake cleaner?
did you service the callipers before putting them back on?

Yep, calipers were originally done by me 7000mile ago, i pumped pistons out a tad today, cleaned the crap off and pushed them back in by hand. All looks well.

Ill see how they feel after 50 miles of normal riding, then put the old ones in to compare.

[yorkie_chris]

Did you brake cleaner the new discs though?