The BFBK- 18″, 6 piston Direct Bolt on Brake Caliper & True Floating Rotor Kit by Hawg Halters Inc. (HHI) is now available in matching Dual Right & Left calipers and rotors for the ultimate in braking power.
This custom kit features a new 6 piston differential bore caliper for 18 inch brake rotors that is the first direct bolt on, purpose built caliper for the Big Wheel Bagger market.
The BFC-18 caliper now available in Left or Right models, features a completely redesigned and upgraded 6 piston configuration with bigger bores and larger brake pads which deliver increased overall braking performance. The BFC-18 caliper is available in, Polished, Chrome, and Black Anodized finishes. Other finishes available.
The BFR -18 inch floating rotors can be ordered to match your production Renegade wheels or an HHI design with matching or contrast finish to your wheels. The BFR -18 rotors are built on a traditional HHI pin type design. The BFR – 18 Floating Rotors feature a Billet Aluminum center section in Chrome or Black, with a 420 Stainless Steel, Cross Drilled Friction Ring. HHI also offers a full Custom Brake Rotor Design package to match your custom wheel design. Call Hawg Halters at 1-877-442-5837 for further details.
Wow 18″ rotors with 6 piston calipers must make for some serious stopping power. What size rim does this fit on? I’m all for good brakes, but not into wagon wheel baggers.
real brakes for clown bikes…
Wonder if all that binder power is a good idea for such a tiny tire footprint? Maybe it’ll be the next rage-the sportbike crowd does stoppies and the big wheelers can do slidies?
The contact patch of a tire isn’t just measured by the width of a tire. Those tall wheels have deceptively large contact patches do to length. Area = length X width. Increase either and you increase the patch.
@Bob, do you really want me to believe these big wheels have the same contact area as a stock bagger? While I prefer pie to pi, I have not seen any where the big tire wasn’t so much thinner that the longer patch of the increased radii could make it even. On a possibly related theme, what kind of air pressure are these skinny, tall tires running? Compounds the same? Seriously, I don’t know. Seems like with bicycle tires you’d need more psi for a skinnier tire?
Not exactly Woody. All I’m saying is looks can be decieving. That stock 17″ wheel with a 3.5″ wide tire I’m sure handles better, and the gyroscopic effect of the taller wheel is in no small part to blame. I’m just talking contact patch. A 23 or 26″ inch wheel has a much longer contact patch than a 17 or 18″ wheel. With respect to braking a 23″ tall by 2.5″ wide wheel will have a larger contact patch than a 17 X 3.5″. All I’m saying is that binding power isn’t being applied to a “tiny tire footprint”. Not to mention, just how skinny is that tire? A 26″ X 3.5 will look skinny while a 17 X 3.5 will look fat. What’s the actual measurement, not just the looks.
All I have to say is What goes around comes around. Love the brakes. ..Z
BobS,
I will meet you at Laguna Seca, you bring your 30″ front wheel Road Bling King (fit whatever brakes you like) and I will pitch with a standard frame, rake and suspension Road King, with 17″ front and rear.
Then you follow me around the track, two bike lengths behind, while never reducing that distance. Bets are on that somewhere in the Corkscrew, you and your Bling-wreck, will finally come to GRIPS (oooooops, that pun came in.., low) with a little devious, albeit allusive, entity called ‘physics’.
I agree 17″ goodies look a bit goofy on a Bagger, but then do not venture beyond 17″-18″ rear and 21″ front (as the absolute limit; 19″ = far superior), if you want something intended for anything other than a feature in the Hagenbeck-Wallace arena.
18″ front and rear (same/similar profile) is something you can stick that 143″ mean-mother into and have a real hot-rod – in true American style.
Uh Sigfreed, maybe try reading the actual comments?
BobS – I was actually just pulling the p!ss a bit; relax dude 🙂
“And the dialogue continues” !!!
Said it before & will say it again
anything bigger than a 23 inch front is a waste….
Just like the 300 rear tire, this too shall pass
@Bob S good point regarding the visual aspect making the skinny tire perhaps look worse than it is. The contact area on my sportbike is rather small BUT it’s a much lighter bike than a 800-1000lb barge, and fairly sticky compound. Maybe someone can clue me in to what kind of pressures these big wheel skinny tires have to run at so they handle the weight of a bagger? I’m curious if they end up being “harder” than OEM wider bagger fronts. Do most/any/all of the custom bigwheels run ABS? That would probably make much of my concerns moot, but possibly lengthen stopping distances if there IS a slippage issue otherwise under heavy braking.
Dagone that is one ugly Road Glide…
Good looking bike, and HHI makes great products. Some of the contact patch comments are hysterical.