Danish brakes specialist SBS has had extraordinary race success since the turn of the millennium. First with its DC Dual Carbon and then with the DS Dual Sinter, popular at the very top levels of leading race series across all disciplines - World Superbike, Moto2 and 3 GP, World Endurance and TT road racing, and with riders in national championships and track-day enthusiasts.
After several world champion titles in collaboration with SBS 'Partners in Racing' teams, first with DC Dual Carbon and later followed by DS Dual Sinter, SBS launched for the 2019 season the DS-2 compound to complement the well-known DS Dual Sinter.
However, braking is also a question of rider preferences, therefore SBS has harnessed the experiences of its riders and partner teams with this new racing booklet describing the characteristics of its different racing compounds in detail and the preferences of its professional riders.
When used in conjunction with the comprehensive SBS pad and application online finder tool, it further helps dealers and their customers find the right racing brake pads for them.
For example, it explains why the DC Dual Carbon has a smooth initial bite that controls and increases in-stop performance and brake feel and how that is achieved compared to, say, the DS-1 Dual Sinter with its strong initial bite, linear in-stop performance and brake feel and the smooth initial bite, progressive in-stop performance and brake feel of the DS-2.
The SBS racing history started back in the 80s with ceramic based brake pads that were developed and complemented with sinter brake pads in the 90s - in collaboration with factory teams such as Yoshimura Suzuki, Ferracci Ducati, Muzzy Kawasaki, Erion Honda and first World Superbike Champion Fred Merkel and Team Rumi Honda.
In the mid-90s, SBS Racing Service became involved in the World Superbike series where the SBS RS Racing Sinter compound was developed in close cooperation between the SBS R&D department and the top teams in the championship.
In 2001, the first DC Dual Carbon version was launched after five years of intensive development and testing work. Five years later, after several world champion titles with DC Dual Carbon, the first DS Dual Sinter version was introduced in 2007.
"The DC Dual Carbon and DS Dual Sinter performance has continuously been improved in line with the introduction of new high-tech bikes for road racing," says SBS' CSO Christel Munk Pedersen.
"In particular, the Superstock 1000 class with standard braking system made higher demands for brake pad performance simultaneously with the development of engine performance, tyre compounds, suspension components and electronic riding aids such as traction, wheelie, slide control, engine brake, ABS, etc. With these electronic riding aids, lap times became faster and faster, even for hobby and track day riders."
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