EBC Brakes Wins Racer-X Reader’s Choice Award For Its Motocross Brakes

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November 11, 2011

With a 56% share of the aftermarket, EBC Brakes out-voted all other aftermarket brake suppliers combined in the recent survey of 2000 Racer-X motocross enthusiasts, expanding its market share in the survey by 20%+ compared to previous surveys.

“EBC Brakes won this reader’s choice award by a country mile” stated Scott Wallenberg, Racer-X publisher, and continues its dominance of the motocross market for brake pads and rotors, especially in the USA.

EBC Brakes produces the largest range of motorcycle brakes in the world from three manufacturing locations in Bristol, UK, Northampton, UK and Ohio, USA and make the popular ranges of motocross brakes and clutches such as the MX-S sintered pads plus the OS series oversize brake rotor kits and the new super tough DRCF clutch kits.

EBC Brakes stocks and distributes its products in the USA from a huge new Los Angeles facility and distributes its products to 28 of the world’s largest distributors in the USA and Canada. EBC Brakes also has world dominance with distributors in almost every westernised market with an estimated world market share of 60-70% of the free aftermarket.

Recent other interesting events at EBC Brakes were the doubling of the Ohio sintered metal manufacturing plant with the addition of six further vacuum furnaces and a second continuous sintering furnace for volume production, making EBC Brakes the largest producer of sintered metal brakes in North America.

The EBC organic pad manufacturing plant in Bristol, UK recently launched its new range of V-pads for street cruisers or Big Twins in the USA and this product will go on sale in Europe, Spring 2012.

The EBC Brake rotor range is now also produced using a new German mill rolled special stainless steel material which is heat treated to a unique EBC specification to provide a combination of toughness and ductility and is another world leading motocross brake commodity.

EBC shows big gain in Brake pad fitment in Racer X survey