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SEMC Brembo 300mm cast iron brake kit Tue Dec 19, 2023 4:24 pm
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Rovering on ads websites, I've spotted last week a sad looking K100RS dismantled for parts, that seemed to be equipped with unusually large front brakes...
![SEMC Brembo 300mm cast iron brake kit Semc_b11](https://i.servimg.com/u/f71/13/49/48/64/semc_b11.jpg)
I asked the seller better pictures of the brakes:
![SEMC Brembo 300mm cast iron brake kit Semc_b10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f71/13/49/48/64/semc_b10.jpg)
Damn!
These are a very rare brake kit from SEMC, the Brembo importer in France in the eighties.
I had never seen it for real, just a line,about it in a vintage catalog...
So this afternoon, it was in my mailbox.
The brake disc itself is cast iron, with a much better friction power than steel brakes.
But with a tendance for corrosion...
The diameter is much bigger, 300mm, and the pad track seems wider also.
The center is made of gold anodised aluminiun, with a specific shape.
![SEMC Brembo 300mm cast iron brake kit 20231220](https://i.servimg.com/u/f71/13/49/48/64/20231220.jpg)
There's also aluminium plates for the calipers to compensate the wider diameter.
![SEMC Brembo 300mm cast iron brake kit 20231221](https://i.servimg.com/u/f71/13/49/48/64/20231221.jpg)
Also in aluminium but unprotected: sadly one is badly corroded. I think I'll have to make new ones machined.
Anyway, that will fit perfect on the new PVM rims of my eighties k100 racer.!
![SEMC Brembo 300mm cast iron brake kit Semc_b11](https://i.servimg.com/u/f71/13/49/48/64/semc_b11.jpg)
I asked the seller better pictures of the brakes:
![SEMC Brembo 300mm cast iron brake kit Semc_b10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f71/13/49/48/64/semc_b10.jpg)
Damn!
These are a very rare brake kit from SEMC, the Brembo importer in France in the eighties.
I had never seen it for real, just a line,about it in a vintage catalog...
So this afternoon, it was in my mailbox.
The brake disc itself is cast iron, with a much better friction power than steel brakes.
But with a tendance for corrosion...
The diameter is much bigger, 300mm, and the pad track seems wider also.
The center is made of gold anodised aluminiun, with a specific shape.
![SEMC Brembo 300mm cast iron brake kit 20231220](https://i.servimg.com/u/f71/13/49/48/64/20231220.jpg)
There's also aluminium plates for the calipers to compensate the wider diameter.
![SEMC Brembo 300mm cast iron brake kit 20231221](https://i.servimg.com/u/f71/13/49/48/64/20231221.jpg)
Also in aluminium but unprotected: sadly one is badly corroded. I think I'll have to make new ones machined.
Anyway, that will fit perfect on the new PVM rims of my eighties k100 racer.!
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