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Where to buy front brake pads
Where's a good place to buy front brake pads, and what's a good brand to get?
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I used EBC HH pads on my old stock front calipers. Lyndall is highly regarded for pads as well. There's another brand I can't recall at the moment, not heard of often.
There's probably hundreds of places to buy them.
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### The ride is more enjoyable to nowhere in particular! ###
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You might consider a Wilwood front caliper, about $230. Even the best pads on a stock caliper don't stop anything like having a better caliper. Putting a Wilwood GP310 on the front was probably one of the best purchases I've ever made for my bike.
John
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Another vote for EBC pads. I've been selling them for a couple decades, and they seem to work really well. The HH grade are pretty much mandatory for a lot of calipers (like the '00 - up 4-piston) if you want any life out of them. (Factory pads for that application are HH.)
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Originally Posted by John Harper
You might consider a Wilwood front caliper, about $230. Even the best pads on a stock caliper don't stop anything like having a better caliper. Putting a Wilwood GP310 on the front was probably one of the best purchases I've ever made for my bike.
John
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+1 on the Wilwood-whoop a Llama's as*
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There is always Harley Davidson. )gasp(
EBC makes a good pad for the bikes as well.
pick your favorite online vendor and goto town 
I run lyndall gold pads on mine. wouldn't suggest red.
i ordered direct from
https://lyndallbrakes.com/
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I think I will go with the EBC pads. That's what I have in the rear. Jim (above) says something about needing the HH version (whatever that is) on 2004 and up bikes. Mine's a '96. Does that mean I need to get a specific version of the EBC pads? Do I need the HH version or some other specific version?
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