Old Car and Bike rambling

I recently came across a blogger post for upgrading the single piston front brake caliper for a Honda CX500 using the dual piston brake caliper from a 1982 cb900. I had been researching bolt-on upgrades to improve the braking ability as well as the brake feel for my old CB750c. I wanted improved braking. The cb750 brake lever has a wooden feel and requires a fair amount of pressure for a decent stop. My suspicion is that disk brake technology was so new that the engineers didn't really have time to figure out all the details they needed for effective brakes.  These poor disk brakes were already a big improvement over the original drum front brakes. My experience on a new Vulcan 500 convinced me it could be done because it has great brakes with good feel and the configuration is single disk with a single piston caliper just like my 750. My next hurdle was deciding what caliper I would use in my upgrade since I had 2 left calipers. With only 2 auctions, I inadvertently purc...