The rotor (A) and the brake...
The rotor (A) and the brake pads (B) fully wrap around each other, sandwiching themselves together. When you grab a handful of this braking system, what you get is 360 degrees of compression.
According to 360 Brake, the system was installed and tested in-house and by an independent testing company on a Harley-Davidson Softail. In these tests, from 60 mph to 0 the bike stopped an average of 16 feet shorter than anything the developers had run against it. Tests also showed that because the brake applies pressure to pads that go completely around the axle, the lever-arm effect of feeling as if you're getting thrown over the handlebars in an emergency stop is greatly reduced. Instead, the rider experiences more of a squatting feeling as the brake creates downforce instead of upforce, which helps the bike stay planted to the road both front and rear.
The 360 Brake also applies downward pressure to the back tire, increasing contact with the road and allowing harder braking without losing traction at the back tire, thus maintaining better control. When increased brake pressure is applied to a motorcycle with a front and rear single-caliper and rotor setup, the bike has a tendency to pull to the side that the brake system is mounted on. The dynamics of the 360 Brake reduce the pull of the brake, causing the bike to track straighter with more control under braking.
Check out your new brake line....
Check out your new brake line. No ugly connectors or banjo bolts. The brake line now goes directly into the new caliper and eliminates the old banjo fittings. The bleeders are half the size of the industry standard.
The 360 Brake System also changes the dynamics of how the bike handles in a stop. When you take a large steel ring and bolt it to the side of a wheel and get that wheel spinning, you change that wheel from being a typical wheel to being a gyroscope. When you stop the wheel from spinning (as in a panic stop), you lock up the wheel. The brakes stop the wheel from turning, but the inertia of the gyroscopic effect kicks in. This gyroscopic effect is what brings the bike around. Instinctively, the rider will start to counter with his steering, and all too often it ends up in an ugly tank slap, high side and down. By reducing the diameter of the rotor all the way down to 4.4 inches and by wrapping it tight around the axle as the 360's engineers have, it effectively removes the gyroscope effect. So when you grab a handful of the 360 Braking System, it has the ability to skid in a straight line.
360 Brake currently has brake systems ready for billet wheels and anticipates that wire-wheel and narrow-glide applications will be available later this year. Currently, the 360 Braking System is sold as an install kit for 1-inch axles, but the company also offer a 3/4-inch stainless-steel axle adapter, as well as an optional anti-rotation arm. For many wheel applications, it is a bolt-on system; however, it is recommended that the brake be installed by a professional. Replacement pads, rotors, and miscellaneous hardware are available as a rebuild kit. The units come fully polished and are made from the 2024 T-3 aluminum.
Sources360 Brake(317) 852-7867www.360brake.com