Brembo brake disc - How is it made?

[p.dath]

I just came across this interesting video on You Tube by accident, on how Brembo discs are made. It is for cars, but the manufacturing process will be the same for motorcycles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAzbbID6BZ0

[pritch]

That manufacturing process will have nothing much in common with bike brakes. The process in the video was for ceramic discs.

I think it was BIKE magazine did a track comparison of a late model Porche and the then current GSXR1000, the GSXR won but it was pointed out that the ceramic brake disc option on the Porche alone was more expensive than the total price of the GSXR. From that it would appear that to fit ceramic discs to any of the current litre sprotbikes would over double the price of the bike.

Another option would be carbon discs but they need to operate at very high temperature so wouldn't work in the rain. That's why the MotoGP riders switch to steel discs when it's wet.

Meantime then it would seem we're stuck with our olde worlde steel discs for the foreseeable future.

Interesting video though.

[onearmedbandit]

The good ol' steel discs work well enough for me, strong enough to lock a wheel or flip the bike up on it's nose.