Scooter are not just scooters any more are they ????

Some are capable of speeds well in excess of 100MPH and are as heavy as any motorcycle so limiting them to the (until now) cheap and cheerful organic aftermarket  pad is a major mistake and actually dangerous.

Whilst the original pads are good and designed carefully to suit the bike when it comes to changing brake pads riders are faced with a choice to but the expensive original parts again or search the aftermarket. This is where Industry leader EBC Brakes steps in.

We offer two clear choices in the scooter brake pad replacement market, an organic Kevlar based pad and a sintered copper pad. Further on down this page you can read about how sintered pads are made but right here lets show you how to choose the right pad for your scooter.

Basically the EBC organic pad compound sold for scooters is the same world number one selling DMX formula that has seen tens of millions of sets sold over the recent years and is a milestone icon in organic pad blending. So if you order an FA or SFA organic EBC pad you get that same QUALITY pad that will perform and will LAST. Not only is DMX formula a great performance compound its wear life is close to sintered plus it costs far less.

However if longest life and the ultimate in heat fade resistance such as in racing is your target then sintered should be your choice. Select the part for your machine show elsewhere in the catalogues section of this site and add the suffix HH after the pad.

Sintered copper brakes are made by one of two processes, pressure sintering in a vacuum furnace or sintering through a belt furnace in a controlled atmosphere. The steel backing plates for the brake pads are copper coated and a preformed sintered copper “Puck” is located onto pips in the plate (either male or female) and the parts are passed through a furnace. At a pre-determined temperature the copper coating under the pad puck melts and fused the puck and plate together.

Sintering is a very exact process and the EBC expertise has made it a world leader in such technology and gained it numerous OE contracts.

In the aftermarket EBC continues to offer sintered brakes for applications requiring longer life and higher heat performance and organic pads for sport and general purpose use.