Bagger brakes on fxdx

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Feb 7, 2015 | 02:50 PM

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bignin

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Originally Posted by rauchman

Excellent work! What did you use to fab the bracket. This has me thinking that fabbing up some kind of bracket really opens up options for brakes. I'd easily consider calipers from a sport bike.

I'm not smart enough to fab my own brackets (well maybe if I had all the gear), I got the FabKevin brackets. http://www.fabkevin.com/shop/parts/b...-caliper-kits/

I just got the brackets from him and the calipers locally. Apparently though, the 4 pot tokico's outperform the 6 pots... Never research after you've bought something.

You can also get the speed merchant brackets for the radially mounted calipers. http://thespeedmerchant.net/product-.../brake-mounts/
I had radial mount calipers on my GSXR and they were amazing brakes. I didn't know about them when I started to do this, but if I had I would have gone for these instead. Maybe another upgrade in the future.

Feb 7, 2015 | 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by panhead19530hv

Upgraded my perfect stock dual disk brakes to 2013 FLHX rotors and cailpers. Cailpers bolted right up no problem.The rotors bolt up to my stock wheel just fine but once i installed onthe bike i could no rotate the wheel because the the bolts were hitting the inside of the fork legs. the stock FLHX or newer bagger rotors are not recesed bolt hole, so i took them to a shop to have the holes recesed to the depth of the stock 2000 dyna rotors. turned out great once i got them back. the only issue i have is the brake lines, i had to twist the lines at the cailpers to get the banjo bolt to hit the stop.I did the conversion in the summer of 2013 just never posted it. it stops the same as stock fxdx just looks better to me.

By the way, Panhead, your DX is sweet, real clean!