Practicing what I preach, I just ordered new EBC rotors (part #'s MD607LS MD607RS) and matching pads for my K100RS. They should be in next week.

The amount of money I have spent on this 18 year old bike this year is truly ridiculous.

Probably could have bought a pretty nice new bike, huh?

But the old bike has a story to tell.

Of course, if you want your next trip to be more of an adventure, do it on something like Duncan's old Water Buffalo. Just think of the people you'd meet when you're broken down in the middle of nowhere!

@Ian Well, maybe not new but at least one a few years old. Of course realistically there's little I've done to this bike that one wouldn't need to do to any bike of a similar vintage, or realistically, much younger. If I'm going to continue riding this bike I should probably start turning more wrenches on it myself. Paying shop rates will eventually bankrupt me.

Water buffalo you say? Generally speaking to do a trip like this a machine has to "go" under it's own power ...

Oh, yeah - Duncan, no offense!

None taken

Just for the record, however, you guys should know that both GT750s and RE5s have been entered in the past few years in the iron butt...

I hope the EBCs are of the quality you expect--I've had mixed results with them over the years.

I take it the stock rotor price was up in the "stupid" range?

Great idea! Duncan, the next rally starts June 20th next year. Now THAT would make for a great motorcycling blog. What do you think, Yermo? Can we talk him into it?

You will notice he said "entered" and not "finished".

As a matter of fact, they were entered in the "hopeless" class, but managed to get more than half of the run done before they needed parts that weren't quickly available.

No catastrophic failures with either bike AFAIK...

The real trick would be to do it on my L5T

"70 Yamaha L5TA Trailmaster 100 (ongoing project)"

reality check:

I haven't seen any "ongoing" work on this bike since he rolled it into the shed how many years ago?

I've also have never seen this bike run...

good thing it is small so it can be pushed easily.

iron butt is a long way to push a bike...

destroying Duncan's hopes & dreams one fact at a time.

Any update on the rotors? I'm curious to the performance. I've used EBC pads before; both street and dirt and have no complaints.

Still !@#$%!@# waiting. Now they are back ordered to the middle of November.

Once I have a chance to bolt them on and have some experience with them, I'll post a review.