Hey guys I just put some polished stainless rotors on my bike. I love them and they stop just fine to me. But I have a question on pads. What is the best type of pad to use for stainless? I know stainless can squeak more than stock but I am trying to find a way to limit the squeaking!!!

 

KC International has an organic pad pretty cheap that they claim is specifically for the polished stainless rotors they sell.

The Harley pads do make a little noise on my front so I might switch in the spring and check them out myself.

 

Any Kevlar / Organic pad should be fine. I run EBC's that can be had on EBay for cheap.

 

So organic is the way I am guessing. I love these rotors. But my pads are basically new....Ah what a decision to make.

 

A $14 dollar decision...could be worse.

Me personally I hate pulling up and having the rotors squeak like a POS, after all the other work it detracts some of the cool factor.

 

I just noticed how cheap they are. And you are right. The sqeaking while pulling up makes it sound like I just got a bird caught in my spokes.

 

My stocker rear brakes started squeaking just from hand polishing the rotor and tried my best to keep the polish off the contact area but I'm guessing the stock pads glazed over or something from the mothers polish. It does suck rolling up to a stop light and feeling like chit that feeling kind of like reaching down and feeling hairy legs if you know what I mean!

 

Your bike is just letting you know that you aren't done spending money yet...they do that from time to time

 

LOL isn't that the truth! It's telling me it needs the real polished/chromed rotors and chrome calipers. They are on my short list.

I can't remember which brand or company that I was looking at for the polish rotors, they did recommend not using OEM pads.

Oh yeah, and now I have this OL Sporty

 

Nice...now you have two bikes to mod, get cracking!

You must have a cool wife but I know the real reason you bought her a bike was so that you could spend more cash on your own (except now you are sharing the needle) lol

BTW if you go with Harley rotors I have a polished front with 25 miles on it that I would let you have on the cheap. PM me if interested.