DP Brakes SDP Sport HH+ brake pads feature a plasma-applied, ceramic heat shield on the backside. This minimizes heat transfer to the brake fluid for no fade and great feel.
Next to zipping right along, my favorite thing to do on a motorcycle is slow down?rapidly, on demand. Doing that at track days had worn my front brake pads. The slow-speed maneuvering skills I learned in a Ride Like a Pro course had taxed the rears. To refresh the pads and kick up braking performance, I replaced the OEM brake pads with DP Brakes SDP Sport HH+ pads.
DP Brakes says it developed this particular compound for street use ?to provide an industry high HH+ friction rating with consistent, powerful, controllable braking performance together with low lever effort, no noise, low rotor wear and reduced dust.? (The friction rating for the matching rear pads is GG.) Significantly, DP Brakes engineered these pads to prevent brake fade. Brakes convert stopping force into heat, and you don?t want that heat getting transferred to the brake fluid. When brake fluid gets too hot it boils, forming gas bubbles that, unlike fluid, can be compressed. You can feel the compression?brake fade?when your brake lever pulls back to the handlebar as you lose stopping power. To prevent heat transfer and brake fade, DP Brakes uses a high-tech, plasma-applied, ceramic heat shield on the backside of these pads. Ceramic is an excellent insulator?just ask your local astronaut.
DP Brakes says it doesn’t use a wear indica...