disc brake on 1966 Atlas

Thomasa said:
One thing to consider when you're riding in Seattle or, say, San Francisco it holding the bike at a light on a steep uphill. When I road tested /2 BMWs it got to be a bit of a juggling act sometimes when you had to hold the bike with the rear brake. The front was worthless in reverse. The TLS Commando brake doesn't seem as bad in that regard. It is a major improvement over the SLS brake!
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My mate has two 8 inch BSA SLS brakes, back to back on his Triton 650. It is a very nice brake. And it needs to be - his bike really gets mobile. I rode it once and blew-off a good Kawasaki H2 two-stroke which had expansion chambers. The bloke on the Kwaka chucked it down the road behind me as I braked at the end of a long straight.
 
Another possibility is the cable I'm using. It is Flanders cable and I make up my own clutch and brake cables. It appears to be the same diameter as stock. I could get the next size up but it wouldn't match the clutch. Any body experiment with cables?
 

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