I was planning maintenance, basically bored and looked up brake pads and there appears to be three types for Street Twin What the difference please between Organic Semi sintered Sintered I would think the most important feature is stopping ability? Would one fit the same to both front and rear?
Sintered has metal parts and wear your discs quicker also stop you faster organic are green and give less stop but more feel For consistent feel I would fit both brakes with the same type of pads.
Repooh, I have had the same basic question in a past post. I wanted to know what is the stock brake pad material used on the bike. No one can tell me. Not even my local Triumph dealership. I received zero responses to my past post. Sintered or semi-sintered type may already be on your (and my) bike. The Street Twin's brakes work OK but are a bit under powered in my opinion. Sintered type will offer best stopping power, but don't spend the $$ until you know want is there as you may be wasting your hard earned money. My 2 cents.
Brakes are quite straight forward to do. I used EBC Sintered HH brakes (front AND back). It made a huge difference to the ability to stop the bike (Tiger 800 XRX). The original Triumph brakes were ok but these are a lot better. I like being able to stop quickly when something nasty happens and think the extra £ or three is well worth spending for the upgrade. Don't forget to get some copper grease to stop brake squeal and to stop nuts and bolts getting fused/stuck. Also give the cylinders a damn good clean (from the outside) - a tooth brush and brake cleaner is a great help - as is youtube! Oh - don't put the grease on the disks or pad faces
My advice is that unless you do track days OEM Triumph pads are fine. I’ve never found my ST wanting in the braking department with OEM pads. A Street Twin with 54bhp will be fine with standard brake pads.
Don't over think it Repooh: Does your current braking set up suit your riding? ----- yes , next issue ----- No, lacks bite - try sintered, but on twin discs change both sets - lacks feel try organic. To make things complicated we need to add temperature in the above but unless pushing your luck on the road you can disregard it
I just installed EBC HH sintered brake pads on my Street Twin front and back. Big improvement in stopping power. Recommended.
My T100 has just had its first service. I mentioned a whine from the back brake on light braking to the mechanic. In the conversation that followed I was told that the pads fitted to the Bonnie by Triumph are sintered pads.
