Brembo GP4-MotoGP Caliper First Look [For Street Use, Too]

Brembo is providing a brand new entrance brake caliper rooted within the braking implements utilized in MotoGP and World Superbike racing. “Designed and developed to equip the final word technology of highly effective street bikes, the GP4-MotoGP is a brake caliper born from the racetrack for the street and completely fits the wants of at present’s bikes and essentially the most demanding monitor fanatics,” a Brembo insider explains. “The caliper is able to taking efficiency and sportiness on the street to an unprecedented degree.”

The Brembo GP4-MotoGP caliper options an indirect pad slide and new racing pistons, that are claimed to show the identical brake lever stress into extra deceleration energy.

Inevitably, The elevated braking drive means extra warmth, so Brembo engineers have labored to dissipate it. There are air flow fins on the brand new outer physique of the caliper and the pistons. Cooling is offered by the motion of the bike and the spinning of the discs and wheel.

The Brembo GP4-MotoGP caliper is machined from a single piece of billet aluminum, making it an genuine monobloc design. In keeping with Brembo, the machining course of “permits the usage of supplies with higher mechanical traits, better resistance even in excessive operation and, consequently, enchancment to the efficiency of your entire braking system with out compromising on sturdiness,” a Brembo supply tells us.

The rigidity of the caliper is enhanced by ribbing on the entrance part, the place the 4 pistons reside. A nickel coating provides energy at excessive temperatures, which interprets to improved efficiency beneath essentially the most difficult circumstances.

This new caliper comes with Brembo’s new standing because the Braking Inspiration Associate of the FIM MotoGP. Whereas that sounds a bit foolish, it implies that MotoGP followers will get “information in a totally new graphic format throughout reside tv broadcasts worldwide, additionally presenting unique content material of what occurs behind the scenes,” in keeping with a Brembo press launch.

Should you’re suitably impressed by the braking efficiency of MotoGP bikes, the Brembo GP4-MotoGP caliper could also be a deceleration improve price contemplating.