Galfer Braided Brake Lines and Wave Rotors

[michael]

Wave rotors: The Galfer Wave rotors are bolt-on replacements for the stock items. Galfer claims that they run much cooler than the stock rotors, which is useful if you do track days. They also say they weigh about four pounds less than the Honda discs. While I didn't weigh them, I can say that they they must be considerably lighter than the stock discs because they made a huge difference in handling. The bike turns in and flicks side to side much quicker now, allowing me to ride faster in the twisties with much less effort.

Galfer Braided Brake Lines: While my VFR's stock brakes felt ok in isolation, after riding a friend's new CBR900 as well as an Aprilia Falco equipped with Brembo Gold Series I realized my bike's brakes left a lot to be desired. Since the VFR's linked brakes eliminate the possibility of upgrading with a set of top quality aftermarket calipers, I decided to invest in Galfer's braided brake-line system for the VFR. Containing 11 hoses (including the clutch line), it replaces the entire linked system. It's not cheap at $300, but it makes a world of difference. The hoses give the VFR brakes tremendous bite, yet they remain nice and progressive. Now my brakes feel as good as the top sportbikes, and the braided lines, with stainless steel fixtures and available in different colors, make the bike look trick as well.

[Webbfire2004]

Michael, I have installed the Galfer wave rotors on the front and I believe Santa may be giving me the single for the rear this year. May I ask where you found the SS brake lines?
Thanks, and Merry Christmas...Patrick

[benjammer]

Michael, I would love to see some pictures of the braided lines installed. It's got to look sharp!

[SLOav8r]

Originally Posted by Webbfire2004

Michael, I have installed the Galfer wave rotors on the front and I believe Santa may be giving me the single for the rear this year. May I ask where you found the SS brake lines?
Thanks, and Merry Christmas...Patrick

Gotta love them Galfers. Glad you're getting the rear too, it opens up the look of the rear a bit.

If your local shop doesn't carry Galfers, I can get you a price on the SS lines and get a set up to you if you want. I'm friends with a dealer here and can get pretty decent deals.

Unfortunately they don't have good documentation to go with them. Since Galfers USA is local to me, they're going to take my bike for a week and create an install video/instructions using it (they'll be doing the same for Super Blackbird). It's not your ordinary brake line swap, 14 different lines to replace. Things are on hold there til after the holidays, so I expect to have that schedule early next year.

[douglasthecook]

During my 954 front end swap last year I also installed the Galfer SS lines and wave rotors. The improvement is hard to put into words. I now know what the magazines meant when they said that a bike had "wooden" brakes. I honestly feel like that my VFR could do stoppies (not that I would). The response is incredible!!! I highly recommend this upgrade.!!! You'll never regret the $$$ you spent on this. Granted I have a 4ht Gen so the install was fairly straight foward, hopefully you guys with the newer bikes will get the video that was mentioned, bleeding them is a different story. I also installed speed bleeders at the same time, another worth while mod. Bleeding is now a 15 minute process for all the brake components.

[R.W.]

Originally Posted by SLOav8r

Since Galfers USA is local to me, they're going to take my bike for a week and create an install video/instructions using it (they'll be doing the same for Super Blackbird). It's not your ordinary brake line swap, 14 different lines to replace. Things are on hold there til after the holidays, so I expect to have that schedule early next year.

After reading your post my VFR is quite envious, my braking system is the last weak link on my 99

[benjammer]

SLO, I'm really interested in purchasing these in the future. PLEASE let us know when your bike/instructional video is complete. I would love to see it.

Thanks!

[two4one]

I personally didn't think there was anything flat-out "bad" about my 6th gen brakes until I went to the track with it the first time. Having ridden nothing but track bikes with braided lines before, I never experienced the sensation of brakes "going away" on me at the track. Let me tell you, it's not fun! For the street they work just fine but the increased stress/heat from the track really let's you know when it's time to cool it a little. You can actually feel the hoses expanding when they get really hot. Oh well! It's a good time to practice those no break drills :)

For $300, I'm not sure I want to do it...yet!

[Webbfire2004]

Thank you for the reply and the offer...I will also await the video and then go from there. My wife is from Pittsburgh and we travel back there often to visit family so when the time comes I would have everything shipped there, bring it back here and have it all installed by the local Honda dealer ...thanks again and Merry Christmas everyone!

[RGonVFR]

I think the brakes on my VFR are much better than my last sportbike, which was a '94 FZR 600. They can always be better though, right? The bike I bought just had new rotors put on, so I may wait for a while before getting the Galfers. I know the BikeBandit.com has them, but does anyone know if there is a better deal around? Not just for the rotors, but the lines as well. Might as well do them all at the same time.

[douglasthecook]

try hardracing.com, that's where I got mine from, brake lines, rotors and pads. They were pretty cool. I went with them, as braking.com wouldn't answer their phones, their loss.