Sensational Brake Feeling
Have you ever had this kind of experience that you feel speeding so much
at 50 miles per hour with a 1,500cc class car, while you do not feel speeding so much
at 80 miles per hour with an over 3,000cc class car equipped with quality parts like Mercedes?
Virtual speed explains this difference. Stabilized engines and other high quality parts reduce a sense of
impending crisis and fear of speeding. A luxury car accelerates steadily in a short time: this type of car speeds
more than a driver feels.
This is also the case with braking. If a driver feels braking more than he or
she expects, he or she cannot hit the brake any more because of a sense
of fear. ZCOO brake pads give you the feeling that the motorcycle is slowing
down more than the rider feels. This is ZCOO's sensational brake feeling.
We research and develop ZCOO brake pads to provide this "Sensational
brake feeling", relief and trust to all the racing riders.
Development
In July 2001, at the same time ZCOO brake pads started to sell, Mr. Takehiko
Kurokawa, a former HRC rider, won the championship with ZCOO brake pad
in Motegi 3 hour endurance race which was a preliminary skirmish of Motegi
7 hour endurance race.
Why did we develop our own brake pads?
It all started in 1998, when we received an offer from one of our business
partners, who wanted to have brake pads supported in the Suzuka 8 hour
endurance race. At that time, we decided to support them with imported brake
pads from Europe. It was a day of test riding, and we were at Suzuka circuit to
support the team. The brake pads were all worn out after only 30 minuites of
riding, and there was nothing we could do other than we provided them other
team's brake pads. A month later, our support team participated in Motegi 7
hour endurance race, but the team's challenge ended in the preliminary round
due to the same braking trouble.
The next month, we flew to Europe. We held a meeting with engineers of
the brake pads and agreed to develop the new racing pads, but newly
developed brake pads had never appeared to the market. This incident made
us decided to start developing our own brake pads, and ZCOO made
a sensational debut by winning the championship in Motegi 3 hour endurance race.
ZCOO is gathering its reputation on the constant improvements, and is
impressing many riders all over the world. The development of ZCOO brake
pads will never stop, and it is done with our everyday efforts.
Racing
ZCOO brake pads are researched and developed with the priorities of carefully
selected materials, manufacturing method and precision.
Brake pads run hot with the disk rotor during braking, and the pad expands.
When the friction material of a pad expands, the back plate bends easily and
the brake pad cannot touch the disc rotor evenly, which leads to deviant
worn to the rotor or detachment of the friction material from the back plate.
Whether or not good quality material is adopted for the friction material, the
pad is worthless when the back plate bent.
It is braking to convert speed into heat. The temperature of the brake pad can
exceed 600 degrees centigrade during circuit runs.
We began the development of ZCOO brake pads with the manufacture of the
back plate after having recognition of what is the most important aspect for the heat.
ZCOO Characteristic
ZCOO brake pads form ceramic coating on the disc rotor, and the coating largely reduces the damage, which sintered type brake pads tend to give to the disc rotor. Moreover, with particularity to the material of the back plate, the manfacturing method and original joining technology, ZCOO cancels the demerit of usual sintered brake pads such as fading and detachment at high temperature. This is ZCOO's "Ceramic Sintered Pad"
Two different types of linning
EX Series (Ceramic Sintered) for Sprint race
-The more you grip The braking lever, The more braking come in to force.
EX series provide the best controllability.
-Less damage to the disc rotor.
-Little effect at high temperature.
-Continuous stable braking force.
-Less deterioration by the repetition of heat and cold
-All weather
EX-C Series (Ceramic Sintered) for Endurance race and Wave disc rotor
-High durability against wave shaped disc rotors (twice more than EX series)
-Less damage to the disc rotor
-High braking force from the early stages of braking
-High controllability by easy braking release
-All weather
| Class | Rider | Team |
| WSS | Garry McCoy | Team Triumph SC |
| WSS | Paul Young | Team Triumph SC |
| WSS | Mirko Giansanti | Berry Racing |
| WSS | Gianluca Vizziello | Berry Racing |
| JSB1000 | Tomomasa Nakamura | Nakamura Engine R&D |
| JSB1000 | Shinji Nozaki | Honda Dream Kitakyushu |
| ST600 | Takehiko Kurokawa | Matsumoto Clinic Garage Speed |
| ST600 | Makoto Inagaki | Burning Blood RT |
| GP250 | Takumi Takahashi | Burning Blood RT |
| GPMono | Toshiki Yamada | Burning Blood RT |
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