Please recommend me a MC for a 1299S. Will a 17RCS Corsa Corta be better for a noob or a general 17RCS be better (forgive me if i get the nomenclature incorrect). Ta very much. If I buy it new, then at least Rickyx wont buy it before I get the chance...
When used with Brembo M50 (caliper diameter 30): Caliper Piston Area ÷ Brembo RCS17 MC Piston Area ratio = 25:1 Caliper Piston Area ÷ Brembo RCS19 MC Piston Area ratio = 20:1 Lever Modulation Feel Criteria: 30:1 - Soft 28:1 - (Stock) 27:1 - Sweet 23:1 - Firm 20:1 - Wooden My recommendation is Brembo RCS17.
Ultimately it’s individual preference. The Costa Coffee mc offers six levels of adjustment to allow you to tailor your brake setup to your individual preference or use. I run one on my track bike and in the dry it is on the most aggressive setting possible. If it’s wet it’s easy to dial it back.
https://www.carpimoto.it/en-NE/Bike...-Monobloc-M50-Radial-Calipers-100mm-mount.htm I was endurance racing and found the 17 got rid of a lot of my fade and gave more consistent braking with decent feel, which I prefer. My team mate had his set kwak set up so harsh, with maybe 2-3mm lever travel, absolutely solid. Each to their own really.
Looks like it should be a 17, doh!. Ive asked @reactiveparts to swap from rcs19 #110C74010 to rcs17 #110C74040
Thanks to Thomas at Addiction, I got the rcs promptly, despite royal mails best efforts. I am now in process of fitting it and in typical italian fashion, it doesn't fit. There's an interference with the clip on mount. So I have removed clip on mount and essentially taken down what looks like flashing but is just a casting flangey looking bit on my bench grinder. Now it fits snugly. Clip on mounts are cheap and plentiful as I have a spare one from buying a replacement clip on due to said clip on splitting. Ive opted to use the microswitch that came with the rcs rather than the hem as the poem had a slightly longer pointy switchey bit. The bit that moves in/out with lever. You have to remove side panel btw. To get to wires. Which as I got distracted by a cat as I unplugged them, i never noted the colours. So Im off to consult my wiring diagram to be sure. It actually looks obvious, but Im checking jic as what else is obvious is that not everything is obvious. Obviously.
There's not much in it, but if someone made a 3d printed rear to the kill switch which accounted for the m/c, job should be good. Anyone have recommendations for kill switch?
You could try a bsd start stop switch it attaches to the master cylinder gives you more room to position the set up if when you Mt the fluid reservoir it hits the fairing rizoma make a reservoir Mt that attaches to the handle bar tube Enjoy
Cheers Clive, that's a neat solution. I measured both mounts, old and the 17rcs costacoffee and they're both 32mm. I note jet prime do an integrated throttle/switch thing but as nice as it is, it isn't transferable. This along with the rcs can move bikes, if and when my next arises.
For anyone else who is thinking about using an rcs. Mistakes I made. Didn't consider that the rcs was a direct replacement for the oem. It isnt. You need to make it fit. It sits directly next to oem throttle body as there will be interference with lever. This means run/kill switch needs to be changed. I didn't notice this until I was checking the microswitch wiring by testing it. Doh, didn't need to adjust clipon but I have a spare so no probs. Plus I only shaved a smidge of the flashing looking bit neatly. Meh. The reservoir cannot bolt directly to the rcs like the oem did. You need a different bracket. They do one that bolts to rcs bar clamp. But if you use the BDS, that's not an option. I think I may drill and tap one of the clipon bolt heads to accept a screw, but I think Ill make a proper bolt with a threaded head instead and put a bracket on that. Thats prob gonna be mounting point so as to more easily avoid fairing clashes. I enjoy these distractions that just barreling in and finding shit out as I go present. I just like figuring shit out. I don't do organised.
