{"id":28550,"date":"2022-04-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=28550"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:45:59","slug":"thoughts-yamaha-mos-caliper-study-deep-rabbit-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20220411\/blogs\/thoughts\/thoughts-yamaha-mos-caliper-study-deep-rabbit-hole","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts: Yamaha MOS caliper study. Quite a deep rabbit hole\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/5ea-2580w-30-brake-caliper-assembly-rear-silver-spot-1711-p.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/5ea-2580w-30-brake-caliper-assembly-rear-silver-spot-1711-p.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/5ea-2580w-30-brake-caliper-assembly-rear-silver-spot-1711-p-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/5ea-2580w-30-brake-caliper-assembly-rear-silver-spot-1711-p-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calipers without support are the coolest\u2026 (subjective opinion) <br>I&#8217;m guessing that the axial casting approach might be the Solomon way of doing things? <br><br>It could be a good chance to break away from the conventional path? (\u00b4\uff9f\u0414\uff9f) <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Inazuma 1200 has a somewhat unusual Yamaha 100 mm pitch front caliper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It comes with Brembo from the factory, which is nice in its own way\u2026 <br>but there&#8217;s that itch to swap it out? <br><br>I think it would be interesting to deliberately choose a Lockheed-looking or Spandau-looking MOS 100 pitch instead. <br>The center cap comes in three colors\u2014blue, gold, and silver\u2014and pistons exist in both iron and aluminum. <br>What&#8217;s interesting is that the seal part numbers differ between iron and aluminum pistons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the body is probably the same, it might be better to keep the seals matched. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It looks like the rear has different pitch options. <br>I&#8217;m planning to eventually use a Nissin from a ZZR1400 for the rear. This caliper has a 94 mm pitch, and interestingly, MOS also makes a 94 mm version. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s\u2026 kind of interesting, isn&#8217;t it? <br>I think that going forward, large-displacement axial OEM calipers will pretty much disappear. <br><br>Learning from Suzuki&#8217;s example, I keep thinking you should buy them while you can? But I&#8217;m still torn\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calipers without support are the coolest\u2026 (subjective opinion) I&#8217;m guessing that the axial casting approach might be the Solomon way of doing things? It could be a good chance to break away from the conventional path? (\u00b4\uff9f\u0414\uff9f)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-28550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}