Thumb brakes
11-25-2003 | 08:21 PM
#4
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From: Fremont, ca (bay area)
Ya i agree i dont have one but people i know who do think they are a blast...when it comes down to it the only thing keeping me in the sport is the fun of it...so ill probably have to try it out...puts a new level of fun in the game.
11-25-2003 | 09:02 PM
#7
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From: Fremont, ca (bay area)
Oh by the way i dont know anyone rocking thumb brake...its a normal brake lever...its like you have two clutch levers. And my boys just made theres...had to get a little innovative to make it work thers nothing out there that you can buy that works very well...people making theres from scratch. Some people just hooking brake lever to your rear foot brake and it just pulls on that..but that doesnt work that great. You need dual rear calipers to get a good rear brake
Check out the two calipers
Check out the two calipers
11-25-2003 | 10:21 PM
#8
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From: F*CK YOU I'm from TEXAS
Kawasaki 929rr's kick ***!Sweet brake set up. Can you use a front brake lever/mastercyclinder on the left side just mounted upside down with a remote resevoir clamped to it or do you use some kind of hydraulice clutch lever mated to a brake line?
11-25-2003 | 10:49 PM
#10
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Joined: Jun 2003
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From: u town
so look here....if pro road racers use thumb brakes and super motard riders use thumb brakes and they bolt right up..........are you telling me that they dont work? think about it the thumb brake wont get in the way and has its own master cylinder and runs through the foot brake.........so ya dont have to mount a extra caliper on your bike!......i think the reason you guys are putting a xtra caliper on your bike isnT cause you need it.........its BECAUSE you cant figure out how to make the lever work with the foot brake
jus so everyone knows the thumb brakes come in 3 different types ranging from 250-500 bucks
a thumb brake makes perfect sence and it is placed on your thumb so you can still use your clutch lever
i got one on order ill keep ya posted
jus so everyone knows the thumb brakes come in 3 different types ranging from 250-500 bucks
a thumb brake makes perfect sence and it is placed on your thumb so you can still use your clutch lever
i got one on order ill keep ya posted
11-26-2003 | 01:31 AM
#11
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Posts: 282
From: St. Louis
I did a search on Google for thumbrakes and I got these sites:
http://www.dynobike.com/brakes.htm
http://www.cyclebrakes.com/thumb-brakes.htm
http://www.gptechllc.com/products.html
The third one is the best site I found and have the parts for the complete setup. The only problem I see with this type is that the lever looks too big. I was thinking of something a bit smaller like a 4-wheeler thumb throttle.
http://www.dynobike.com/brakes.htm
http://www.cyclebrakes.com/thumb-brakes.htm
http://www.gptechllc.com/products.html
The third one is the best site I found and have the parts for the complete setup. The only problem I see with this type is that the lever looks too big. I was thinking of something a bit smaller like a 4-wheeler thumb throttle.
11-26-2003 | 11:14 AM
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From: St. Louis
I understand what you are saying about the hand break, but I don’t look at it the same way as you. To be a good team or a good rider you must be at the bar when it comes to riding, we must kep trying to push it to the next level, but you are looking at the hand break as not cheating and it IS!. If you can not do it on a stock bike then it is cheating. Any thing I do on my bike I can do on a stock bike! Why do I take air out of my tire, have a 12 bar, cages, cut exhaust, to make it easier on myself, but that does not mean I cannot ride with out it? In every motor sport you can only do so much to the car, bike, or boat before you are "cheating". I feel that "hand breaks", "dirt bike bars", and "20 up" sprockets are cheating (if your 1000cc bike can not go on the highway and do the speed limit then that is too much). If you are going to do that then go join the Circus. I ride STREETBIKES not CIRCUS BIKES. Stunting has to have rules, if you cannot do it on a stock bike then you should not do it. I.e. if you have to add a hand break to do stunt then, you should not do it……. Can you do THAT trick with out the hand break, YES YOU CAN!!! Doing the trick without the hand break is an EVOLUTION OF THE SPORT!!!!!
11-26-2003 | 02:26 PM
#15
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Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 1,103
From: NJ/NY/CA
I rode stock bikes for years--- I mean bone stock!! NO sprockets 12 bar nothing--- As the sport has evolved so have I, I got sprockets db bars hand brake, all that ****---If anyone feels they can do what I do better than me with the way the bike is set up feel free to get your head chopped off. My bike is a FREESTYLE Motorcycle anybody can go and buy a bike off the floor and ride it.
But to set one up the way you want it is a diffrerent story...BOTTOM LINE--Dont hate ----appericiate---- cause Ill get on your stocker with your girl and rip the **** out of it
But to set one up the way you want it is a diffrerent story...BOTTOM LINE--Dont hate ----appericiate---- cause Ill get on your stocker with your girl and rip the **** out of it
11-26-2003 | 02:50 PM
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From: WPB FL
Originally posted by SF Vaughn
I understand what you are saying about the hand break, but I don’t look at it the same way as you. To be a good team or a good rider you must be at the bar when it comes to riding, we must kep trying to push it to the next level, but you are looking at the hand break as not cheating and it IS!. If you can not do it on a stock bike then it is cheating. Any thing I do on my bike I can do on a stock bike! Why do I take air out of my tire, have a 12 bar, cages, cut exhaust, to make it easier on myself, but that does not mean I cannot ride with out it? In every motor sport you can only do so much to the car, bike, or boat before you are "cheating". I feel that "hand breaks", "dirt bike bars", and "20 up" sprockets are cheating (if your 1000cc bike can not go on the highway and do the speed limit then that is too much). If you are going to do that then go join the Circus. I ride STREETBIKES not CIRCUS BIKES. Stunting has to have rules, if you cannot do it on a stock bike then you should not do it. I.e. if you have to add a hand break to do stunt then, you should not do it……. Can you do THAT trick with out the hand break, YES YOU CAN!!! Doing the trick without the hand break is an EVOLUTION OF THE SPORT!!!!!
I understand what you are saying about the hand break, but I don’t look at it the same way as you. To be a good team or a good rider you must be at the bar when it comes to riding, we must kep trying to push it to the next level, but you are looking at the hand break as not cheating and it IS!. If you can not do it on a stock bike then it is cheating. Any thing I do on my bike I can do on a stock bike! Why do I take air out of my tire, have a 12 bar, cages, cut exhaust, to make it easier on myself, but that does not mean I cannot ride with out it? In every motor sport you can only do so much to the car, bike, or boat before you are "cheating". I feel that "hand breaks", "dirt bike bars", and "20 up" sprockets are cheating (if your 1000cc bike can not go on the highway and do the speed limit then that is too much). If you are going to do that then go join the Circus. I ride STREETBIKES not CIRCUS BIKES. Stunting has to have rules, if you cannot do it on a stock bike then you should not do it. I.e. if you have to add a hand break to do stunt then, you should not do it……. Can you do THAT trick with out the hand break, YES YOU CAN!!! Doing the trick without the hand break is an EVOLUTION OF THE SPORT!!!!!
11-26-2003 | 02:59 PM
#17
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From: Chicago, IL
hand/thumb brakes sound like a good time ,i wouldnt mind to try one,but its not my thing ! i just dont want to put one on my bike
i give ,mark,tony props it takes skill to ride a streetbike and do any of the tricks we do i give people **** about the handbrakes ,because its like a joke between all of us u know "the dirtbike bars are for dirtbikes" and "handbrakes are for ******" its just something to give the guys **** about ! hahahah
no matter what we do takes skill handbrake or not
MUCH LOVE TO ALL MY BRUTHERS OUT THERE TRYING TO GET THE SPORT TO BLOW UP I SUPPORT EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU !
i give ,mark,tony props it takes skill to ride a streetbike and do any of the tricks we do i give people **** about the handbrakes ,because its like a joke between all of us u know "the dirtbike bars are for dirtbikes" and "handbrakes are for ******" its just something to give the guys **** about ! hahahah
no matter what we do takes skill handbrake or not
MUCH LOVE TO ALL MY BRUTHERS OUT THERE TRYING TO GET THE SPORT TO BLOW UP I SUPPORT EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU !
Last edited by CrazyJ; 11-26-2003 at 03:09 PM.
11-26-2003 | 03:11 PM
#18
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Originally posted by SF Vaughn
I understand what you are saying about the hand break, but I don’t look at it the same way as you. To be a good team or a good rider you must be at the bar when it comes to riding, we must kep trying to push it to the next level, but you are looking at the hand break as not cheating and it IS!. If you can not do it on a stock bike then it is cheating. Any thing I do on my bike I can do on a stock bike! Why do I take air out of my tire, have a 12 bar, cages, cut exhaust, to make it easier on myself, but that does not mean I cannot ride with out it? In every motor sport you can only do so much to the car, bike, or boat before you are "cheating". I feel that "hand breaks", "dirt bike bars", and "20 up" sprockets are cheating (if your 1000cc bike can not go on the highway and do the speed limit then that is too much). If you are going to do that then go join the Circus. I ride STREETBIKES not CIRCUS BIKES. Stunting has to have rules, if you cannot do it on a stock bike then you should not do it. I.e. if you have to add a hand break to do stunt then, you should not do it……. Can you do THAT trick with out the hand break, YES YOU CAN!!! Doing the trick without the hand break is an EVOLUTION OF THE SPORT!!!!!
I understand what you are saying about the hand break, but I don’t look at it the same way as you. To be a good team or a good rider you must be at the bar when it comes to riding, we must kep trying to push it to the next level, but you are looking at the hand break as not cheating and it IS!. If you can not do it on a stock bike then it is cheating. Any thing I do on my bike I can do on a stock bike! Why do I take air out of my tire, have a 12 bar, cages, cut exhaust, to make it easier on myself, but that does not mean I cannot ride with out it? In every motor sport you can only do so much to the car, bike, or boat before you are "cheating". I feel that "hand breaks", "dirt bike bars", and "20 up" sprockets are cheating (if your 1000cc bike can not go on the highway and do the speed limit then that is too much). If you are going to do that then go join the Circus. I ride STREETBIKES not CIRCUS BIKES. Stunting has to have rules, if you cannot do it on a stock bike then you should not do it. I.e. if you have to add a hand break to do stunt then, you should not do it……. Can you do THAT trick with out the hand break, YES YOU CAN!!! Doing the trick without the hand break is an EVOLUTION OF THE SPORT!!!!!
WHY DONT U GO UP AGAINST TONY, IF U CAN DO EVERYTHING HE CAN DO ON YOUR STOCK BIKE , U WONT HAVE ANY PROBLEMS BEATING HIM RIGHT ?
11-26-2003 | 03:30 PM
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Originally posted by SF Vaughn
I understand what you are saying about the hand break, but I don’t look at it the same way as you. To be a good team or a good rider you must be at the bar when it comes to riding, we must kep trying to push it to the next level, but you are looking at the hand break as not cheating and it IS!. If you can not do it on a stock bike then it is cheating. Any thing I do on my bike I can do on a stock bike! Why do I take air out of my tire, have a 12 bar, cages, cut exhaust, to make it easier on myself, but that does not mean I cannot ride with out it? In every motor sport you can only do so much to the car, bike, or boat before you are "cheating". I feel that "hand breaks", "dirt bike bars", and "20 up" sprockets are cheating (if your 1000cc bike can not go on the highway and do the speed limit then that is too much). If you are going to do that then go join the Circus. I ride STREETBIKES not CIRCUS BIKES. Stunting has to have rules, if you cannot do it on a stock bike then you should not do it. I.e. if you have to add a hand break to do stunt then, you should not do it……. Can you do THAT trick with out the hand break, YES YOU CAN!!! Doing the trick without the hand break is an EVOLUTION OF THE SPORT!!!!!
I understand what you are saying about the hand break, but I don’t look at it the same way as you. To be a good team or a good rider you must be at the bar when it comes to riding, we must kep trying to push it to the next level, but you are looking at the hand break as not cheating and it IS!. If you can not do it on a stock bike then it is cheating. Any thing I do on my bike I can do on a stock bike! Why do I take air out of my tire, have a 12 bar, cages, cut exhaust, to make it easier on myself, but that does not mean I cannot ride with out it? In every motor sport you can only do so much to the car, bike, or boat before you are "cheating". I feel that "hand breaks", "dirt bike bars", and "20 up" sprockets are cheating (if your 1000cc bike can not go on the highway and do the speed limit then that is too much). If you are going to do that then go join the Circus. I ride STREETBIKES not CIRCUS BIKES. Stunting has to have rules, if you cannot do it on a stock bike then you should not do it. I.e. if you have to add a hand break to do stunt then, you should not do it……. Can you do THAT trick with out the hand break, YES YOU CAN!!! Doing the trick without the hand break is an EVOLUTION OF THE SPORT!!!!!
Wow james! First post and look at all the love!
