MOPED ARMY

Find a wrecked Revival or Streetmate and do a transplant of the front fork setup. Simple and easiest way to get a decent disc brake.

yeah it just used disc brake fluid which you can buy anywhere. The only "easy" way to do it is to find a whole front end of something that has disc brakes and just transplant it in.

It is too time consuming and expensive to try and modify your forks and rims.

okay search the picture section for mb5's ive Heard that the whole headstock bolts on to a puch maxi front end, you change of the headstock (where the handle bars fasten) stations (top bit of the leg) dampener (bottom bit of the leg), caliper (bolted on to the dampener) wheel mudguard etc. the brakes dont use electrical assistance at all, you have your reservoir on your handle bars and the force of you squeezing the lever squashes the pads onto the disk. (with you thinking electrical, im not sure if think this will be power assisted or have abs, but mopeds are usually lucky to have a disk) other ideas on this site so far have been to use bicycle forks with the cable disk break, but to be honest cable disks dont have the haul down power, also they tend to seize up (but they have been used on production bikes (honda cb100))

luke

I don't think I would ever trust a brake made for a bike on a kitted moped. Those brakes are designed to stop just a rider, not a rider plus 150 lbs, let alone at the speeds a kitted moped could be traveling.

I'm working on a disc brake project, pretty much starting from scratch. I'll be finishing it up in a few weeks. Hopefully the results will be good.

WillyT

I'm using a rotor from a Honda C125, along with some metal machining, it will attach to the rim directly. I'm then going to use a pipe clamp. In the screws from the clamp will be an upside down "L" bracket. I've got a pair of brake pads, I'm going to drill two holes. Bolts will go through the "L" bracket and through the brake pads. Then I'll just make a hole in the middle of the brake pads where the brake cable will run. I am also thinking of a strong spring in between the brake pads so that the discs will return. If not, I might not have a return spring, I don't think you really needs it that much, the movement of the rotor will push the brakes away or I can manually push the brake lever back. I hope it works. We'll see.

WillyT

Yeah, that's where there's a short fall. The brake pads are up vertically. So I'm really only using about a third of the brake bad. It's probably not going to work, but atleast I know I tried.

WillyT

If it doesn't work, I'll just get some new front drum brakes.

WillyT

did you ever get my email about making that adaptor ring? I'll still do it for free, but i need better specs from you. Drop me an email.

That link didn't work, but they're on this page:

http://www.bmikarts.com/gokarts-minibikes-chopper-parts.shtml

I think it looks promising as well, does anyone else think these might bolt on to our systems?

they're mechanical discs as opposed to hydraulic. another idea i had was to find some 100cc class d bike and rob the front brake assembly and the master cylinder.

yeah the only problem is mounting the calipers to the fork leg, usually you have to mount them with high tensile bolts.

luke

:) mounting points, the master cyclinder and lever assembaly clip on to the handle bar, the cable can be fastened to the fork leg with tie wraps, the disk is fitted to the wheel using high tensile bolts(x5+), and the caliper is mounted to the fork legs..............usually they have manufactered lugs to mount the calipers on (dont forget the high tensile bolts)

luke

Well there is a switch!!!!

This is a little bit better description of how I'm going to do it. I hope.

WillyT