Az summer and drum brakes for an old cb motorcycle? Id rather get opinions than go out and find out(well, if its bad). i just know they have issues cooling down.
You have to to be jamming on the brakes pretty hard to keep them hot all the time, I had bikes with both drum brakes and some with disc in front. Not knowing what riding style or if you are road racing or something (have you installed a new set of shoes, and replaced the drums these being well worn can be a good portion of the problem, however, what about taking a front end off a different bike, find a good deal on on that WILL INTERCHANGE, but has a disc,, single or dual, buy it cheap, swap front ends sell the other bike. you could invest in a tire and wheel assembly used, get the line and master cylinder and go that route, Take the big step, buy a bigger better bike with good brakes? just some ideas, best of luck
Adam gave some very good advice. As far as it being hot in AZ, yes, it's very hot for us humans and to us, there's a big difference between a nice 85 degree day and a blistering 115 degree day. However, that's only 30 degrees difference and for your brakes, that's nothing. They can go from 100F setting in the shade parked to 400F after hard stops. An extra 30 degrees is actually rather insignificant. Swapping out the front brake for a disc is certainly a good idea, but depending upon how old your bike is, I'd be real wary of swapping for a disc set up of the same era (early-mid 1970's). Those old single disc with the hinged caliper hanging in front of the fork leg left a lot to be desired and I'm speaking from experience. When dry, they squealed when you stopped and when wet, they groaned and shook but didn't stop you at all. Drilling them full of holes helped and made them look cooler, but they were still lousy and by todays standards, very lousy.
Everything in Az has a problem cooling down, but disc brakes are better to have on ANY vehicle. They are plain and simply better brakes.
abs is definatly not a must on a bike its not as vital as on a car because they weigh so much less and if your buying a bike such as a nija these are performance bikes so their discs are reasonably big the only sort of bikes abs might be good is on a really big heavy tourer or somthing i wouldnt worry even the slightest about a bike without abs
