All of the Honda CX and GL V-twin family have a hydraulic disc brake up front – some single sided, some dual sided, some with one piston, some with two. Check out our articles below!
Depending on the country and year model, your twisted twin may have a single front disc brake with a single piston caliper, a single front disc brake with a dual-piston caliper, a dual front disc brake with single pistons or a dual front disc brake with dual pistons. The single piston front disc brake on the dual-sided setup looks like this:
The early single sided CX500s had a 276mm rotor with a min. thickness of 6mm and a 43mm piston; the dual-sided CX500s (excluding the E/T) had 38mm pistons and 240mm discs that had a min. thickness of 4mm.
- Upgrading the single piston brakes
- How to remove the front rotor/disc on a CX500 or GL500
- How to remove the front discs on Boomerang Comstars – CX500EC/CX650ED
- Front master cylinder part numbers
- How thick should the front brake discs be on a Honda CX500?
- How much torque for the slide pins?
- How much torque for the brake caliper bracket bolts?
- Where is the brake bleeder valve?
- Help! Brake pads stuck together
- Checking the front rotor thickness
- How to clean and lubricate your brake caliper slide pins
- What size bleeder screw/valve?
- How to install Speed Bleeder valves on a Honda CX500
- Rebuilding the front brakes – CX650ED
- Disassembly – Part 01
- Disassembly – Part 02
- Cleaning
- Rebuilding
- Rebuilding the front brakes – CX500 single piston
- Part One
Brake lines
By now many of the brake lines that came from the factory are rather a lot worse for wear and age; upgrading to stainless steel braided lines is getting fairly common, and is recommended.