Not seen these before but makes logical sense to me. Anybody tried them or had any feedback. Might stave off spongy lever syndrome for a bit. https://conquestcarbon.com/product/ducati-brembo-race-brake-caliper-intake-coolers/
I could not believe these when I first saw them. In all my years of road biking I don't think that I have ever overheated my brakes. Looks like solving a problem that does not exist on road bikes. But they are listed as race. I was also of the opinion that race bikes were very focused on unsprung weight and adding weight to the front calipers would be a big no. I am sure these will weigh more than the savings made from fitting titanium bolts on the disks. I'll give them a miss.
There is a lucrative market of owners who want to look “race” so attach all sorts of pointless tat to their bikes even when it’s never used by racers.
You may have a point regarding pointless tat but I'm guessing you don't have an engineering brain?? Heat dissipation from brakes is a good thing and these will work. How efficiently, I'm not sure. I've actually crashed on track due to cooking my brakes (my fault) I fully understand what happened. The more meat on your pads the better- it helps dissipate heat. Too much heat down there and you take the fluid to boiling point. That's when your brakes go spongy and stop working properly. As for road riding. Absolutely no point at all in above product.
Yes, I can read. And so what? Because you can go bat shit fast on a bike doesn't make you Einstien does it?
Fair point. But my guess is he has more of a clue about what works and what is just shite than most. Including you.
If it was such an issue ..Brembo would have cast cooling finns as an optional feature for Race/track use years ago,on their calipers....cant say I have seen this.
My choice would be these that have already cropped up before, https://gegshop.nl/en/cnc-racing/11000-ZA701-CNC-Racing-Brake-Air-Ducts.html Andy
Well this is where forums come in handy. Drawing on peoples knowledge and experience. @Ash34 may well be right, and its pure tat. But it's always handy to put it out there and glean some opinion on something that's caught your attention. That's all.
bold claims.. they fit these to mountain bike (downhill) brakes as standard... They don't add much weight as they're aluminium; the theory is good as they act as a heat sync but they provide marginal benefit if any at all (mind you my brakes are always on and i don't go fast enough to generate enough airflow) - it usually takes a good 5-10 minutes for the brakes and fluid to cool down after a shit scary run.. I can't see that these would be that effective, how much heat will these things help exchange in real world track conditions, you'd need to have a decent distance between braking points to let the air flow over them to be effective, and the positioning in the photos would suggest at speed not a lot of clean air flow would go over them, given the mounting position behind the forks..
It's not so much about air flow but increasing surface area for heat radiation, much like your Reg/Rec. Having said that my belief is it would have no value at all on the road.
Have I seen ducting to direct airflow onto the brakes in MotoGP? Or did I dream that? Obvs ceramic discs are next level... Performance and expense... Do carbon discs not get as hot as steel? Edit... err, yeah I guess they do. They can often be seen glowing red.
No you have not been dreaming. You have seen ducting to cool the brakes and you have seen shielding to keep the heat in. Carbon discs need a lot of heat in them to work efficiently. One reason the GP bikes use metal discs in the wet. Andy
The way they are fitted would give nothing in cooling if they were a heatsink on a processor. Max contact with the heat is all that works
In fairness to them they have the "plate" that sits against the pad metal backing which acts as a heatsink already, so they are designed the best way possible, they are just a solution to a non existent problem in my view.
even at my minimal level of track riding im always having trouble with brake fade on my gsxr to the point now im changing the whole front end to radial forks and gp4 calipers with zo4 pads, i might think of giving these coolers ago, cant hurt to try um.
