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two pairs, gripped by four-piston
radial calipers employing special
sintered metal pads to stop a bike
weighing 395 pounds dry.
"The Beringer brake solution
delivers 20 percent greater braking force than with conventional
320mm discs," says Thierry Henriette. "But most important of all,
it significantly reduces unsprung
weight in the interests of superior suspension compliance, and
especially the gyroscopic inertia.
This is three times less than with
320mm discs, which makes the
new Brough Superior easier and
more precise to steer, as well as
less tiring to ride. This the first
time this system has been used
on any production motorcycle,
and is typical of the technical
innovation we have employed
in developing this SS100 Sport
Classic model. It may have the
overall appearance of a historic
Brough Superior, with many traditional design cues like the fuel
tank, but this is a modern high
performance motorcycle in ev-
ery way, complete with the necessary technology to make it go
fast."
There's a single 230mm disc
at the rear gripped by a singlepiston caliper – but those smaller brakes for sure give the new
SS100 a retro look, especially
coupled with the 18-spoke 18inch cast aluminum wheels.
It's understood that, initially at
least, production of the Broughs
will take place at the ultra-modern Boxer Design factory in
Toulouse, where a decade ago
Henriette built a series of 36 customer examples of the acclaimed
Boxer VB1 1000cc V-twin Superbike. That's before supplies of
the Voxan motor that powered
the bike dried up when that company went into liquidation. Both
he and Upham have ensured that
Brough Superior doesn't suffer
the same fate this time around,
by developing their own engine
made for them by an established
supplier.
LAVERTY TOfrom Europe, CAMIER OUT?
SUZUKI,
ccording to reports
A
World Superbike Championship runner-up Eugene Laverty will ride for the Fixi
Suzuki team in the 2014 championship
alongside newly crowned British Superbike Champion Alex Lowes, leaving Leon
Camier without a ride despite the Brit
believing he was set to return to the Paul
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Leon Camier is on the outs at Suzuki with the
team opting for Eugene Laverty and British
Superbike Champion Alex Lowes.
Alan Cathcart
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fork. In fact, Fior had contested
several major World Endurance
races with a series of bikes using
his own chassis built around the
wishbone fourche Fior, culminating in third place in the 1980 Austrian 1000km FIM championship
round on a Fior-Honda. He later
went on to build several streetbikes for Boxer Design employing the same front suspension,
an evolved version of which appears on the new Brough Superior.
The retro-styled ultra-lightweight adaptation of the Fior fork
on the new SS100 has magnesium fork legs and titanium links,
while at the rear there's a forged
magnesium swingarm with progressive-rate link pivots in the engine crankcases. Öhlins monoshock suspension is employed
front and rear.
The Brough Superior's brakes
are equally leading edge, with no
less than four Beringer 230mm
aluminum-ceramic
composite
floating front discs, doubled up in
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