what would be a good rotor

[Montague]

hi, i am wanting to up grade my gs 500f 2006s rotors. what would be a good upgrade?

[coll0412]

Brake Rotors?

It depends what the point of the upgrade is, if its performance then your just wasting money. A good set of pads is far better than a "new" rotor. Unless your rotor is warped, severely grooved, or below minimum thickness your just wasting your money.

If its for looks, then just get a fancy EBC Contour rotor and call it good. ITs going to cost you like $270 or something crazy, but it looks cool.

[Montague]

my reasoning for upgrading the brakes is not for looks, but for performance, i am in the process of doing a custom turbo setup and i am needing to upgrade both suspension and brakes.
i am very very familiar with the performance aspect of things and by far familiar with turbos but this is my first in bringing this knowledge into a bike, and a gs500 for that matter. that is why i am looking for your guys help that have experience wiith these bikes as to where i can get these parts. and if i cant find them then i will fabricate what i need to. thanks guys 

[coll0412]

best upgrade are a set of Katana 600 forks with a dual brake setup. Otherwise good set of EBC HH pads is about the best you can do on the stock setup. You could goto a Nissin 4 pot caliper and make a bracket to attach it to the stock GS forks.


In my opinion, a turbo motorcycle is a really bad idea. They tried it in the 80's and ditched the effort fairly quickly as the power delivery is way way too peaky for use on a motorcycle. Some other have done turbo GS's, but I rarely see them stick around with them for a while.

Good Luck though!

[Montague]

thanks for all of the ideas, only one last question, is the Katana 600 change over a matter of changing out tubes or is it a full triple tree swap? & what year would i need to get?

[makenzie71]

Easiest way is to, as stated, upgrade the whole front end...but I'll note that the stock brakes on the GS500 will far outperform the engine's wildest dreams of potential.

[Paulcet]

thanks for all of the ideas, only one last question, is the Katana 600 change over a matter of changing out tubes or is it a full triple tree swap? & what year would i need to get?

Check the Wiki:
http://cgi.stanford.edu/~sanjayd/gs500/Upgrades/FrontForks