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      02-27-2013, 10:52 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by SkinnyVT View Post
Larger pads don't change bias, just wear rate and heat capacity, surface area has no effect on the amount of friction force.
What I really meant but said very unclearly was that if you get a pad with a smaller sweep area than rotor area, you can alter the bias depending on where the centerline of that sweep area is.
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