Rabu, 18 Januari 2012

Simple Yosua : he knows his name..

He opened the Bible, and when it arrived to "his" book (Book of Joshua), he said..
"Yosua" while pointing his finger to the book title..

For a reason, you have a very good photographic memory my son..specially for 3.5 years old boy..

Simple Madass : Frembo in a madass..

Yes, it is Frembo (fake brembo)..
But for trial, why not.
They all have the same size, same 84mm bracket hole, same pad size, similar ..if this one failed, i'll use the setup for a real one.
bracket has been made to match the original one, but then small problem on the screw connecting brake hose to the caliper. It use different screw (banjo screw) then the old one !!
An original Brembo use 1mm pitch screw (possibly m10 x 1mm for mine), this is different standard compare to Nissin which use 1.25mm pitch thread. In my country, we use 99% 1.25mm pitch screw for this caliper-hose connection. i have walk to at least 10 local modification store for this banjo screw, but only found one store sell m8x1mm, the rest sell the nissin one.
Quick search, ebay is the quickest solution, but that's not cheap.
Then i got idea, why not look for the screw to the online sellers who sell brembo caliper. Then after few sms here and there, found that they are not selling the screw, at all !! How come !
A quick phone call to wellknown online modification store which sell brembo: they never ever use the 1mm pitch screw. The use 1.25" tap and modify the brembo..
Really surprised to know that..
Untill i can get the correct 1mm pitch banjo screw, there are no point to get real brembo. For now on, tapping the frembo to use 1.25mm screw is fastest way. But still, need to wait another day.. What a day.

Kamis, 12 Januari 2012

Simple Madass : Rear Brake Caliper Replacement

As I found that the rear brake of my madass is not really grippy compare to the front one, i thing this rear brake need an upgrade. But what kind of upgrade is needed? Some options I can thinking of :
1. Change rear master brake with bigger volume. I have been thinking of nissin 14mm master brake, but for sure it will need a lot mod to mount it (different shape). Another option is to replace the master brake with kitaco or ninja250 rr or Honda rear master brake, but eventhough the shape is similar, the screw spacing hole to hole may be different (i have bought kitaco and the screw spacing hole is farther).

2. Replace the brake shoe pad with grippier one. For this reason, i found that this caliper Match with the front caliper of Honda GL Pro, so an OEM Honda brake shoe will be better compare with the stock one. I don't know why in my case the stock caliper won't slide with the new brake pad installed, but 2 spacer solve the issue by moving the stock caliper away so the brake pad is not pushing the disk all the time.

3. Change the rear disk brake with gripping one, but it's so hard to find the correct size with the same mounting hole, and as well i don't know what material give better grip.

4. Change the rear caliper with better design. I was thinking of replacing this with rear caliper set of Suzuki FU150 (nissin one piston) but it may need a change in the rear bracket. I don't know if this set will be a drop in replacement, but i have a doubt which one better, one piston vs two piston caliper? Then, if two piston is better, which one is better between two piston in one side or one piston in each side? I think i will go with hardest route by choosing 2 piston design (one piston in each side). Why? Because i can have brembo in my rear brake. The rest is just to make the new bracket to fit brembo rear caliper into madass stock bracket.. If this work, i may sell the bracket to my other friends in local madass community, why not.. It's brembo in madass..

So, until the bracket for my new brembo caliper done, i need to rely on the stock caliper with honda brake shoe. Not bad, but i want more.. A brembo in madass..we will see how better in can be..

Senin, 02 Januari 2012

Simple Money : Where is OUR saving ?

How come manager steal money from their own locker ?
How come manager run away from responsibility and just say "sorry" ?
What kind of manager are you ?

I give you my trust and yet you throw it away, not just once.
You will be fired from this position, you can not be trusted anymore.
untill you can show me that you deserve it..


sorry to say, but it's your own fault..