Old Can Ride
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That large single rotor in the front gets the job done real well. Who wants to stop anyway, keep rolling.
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The Brembos on my R100 were pretty good and not fussy like ATEs but the OEM discs were very soft metal and needed replacing by 75,000 miles.
I think the journalist's period description of how the R100's softly sprung forks collapse under hard braking ranks among the classics of airhead literature. "The BMW forks collapse like a pole-axed mule under hard braking". I paraphrase because I gave away all literature to the buyer when I sold mine. Better braking would have required better suspension so it all worked OK as it was I suppose. It was still good for the time.
There are a lot of things to like about airheads and some of those things are best left remembered and not compared to modern motorcycles.
Honestly I do,nt know why you guys have got your knickers in a twist over fitting a second disc,
Despite me being a bit of a stodgy naysaying stick in the mud when replying to people wanting to hop up the un hop-uppable NC engine, lol, or make a fiendishly MotoGP-like stop on a dime and give you 9 cents change, pinky finger uber braking machine, I do nevertheless, wish all the luck and power in the world to them.