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Old 09-05-2018, 06:27 PM   #38
Orange67
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Re: Why is drum to disc called an upgrade?

As stated before, the 4 wheel lock up associated with 4 wheel drums is exciting, but after what happened to me last year, my 67 will be getting front discs.

I was in the right hand lane on a four lane road, two kids pulled out from a parking lot to my left heading the same direction, I'm in the right lane, so they had plenty of room, right? Nope. They didnt even look, came right over into my lane causing me to jerk the wheel to the right and stab the brakes which spun the back end around in a really cool (if embarrassing) slide that i managed to stop about 6 ft from a telephone pole aimed at my drivers door. This may still happen with front discs, but I'm using it as a great excuse with the wife....

Oh yeah, and that was this time of year on dry roads to boot.
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