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Vespa Cosa clutch plates bgm PRO Touring Alu

bgm PRO Touring Alu - our new clutch facings from bgm PRO - now retrofit Vespa Cosa clutch with the features of Honda CR80 clutch facings

The bgm PRO Touring aluminum pads are highly improved clutch discs for all Cosa clutches. Revolutionary clutch facings in Honda CR80 style with significantly more surface, but which fit Plug & Play into the normal Cosa clutches!

bgm PRO Touring Alu Vespa Clutch Lining Cosa

Clutch friction plate set BGM PRO TOURING Alu Type COSA2

  • Perfect symbiosis of racing technology and reliability for touring drivers
  • Suitable for all conventional Cosa2 clutch baskets (lug width as original, 14mm)
  • Aluminum carrier material with reinforced contact surface on the tabs
  • Sinter lining material like Honda CR80 in wide version

The bgm PRO Touring aluminum rubbers combine the advantages of the popular CR80 racing rubbers with the high demands of touring riders.

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Vespa Cosa clutch upgrade

SOLID BASE SUPPORT

The brake pads use an aluminum carrier, whose lugs for the clutch basket have a large contact surface. This makes the pads very stable over the long term. The slow shearing off of the plates, which often occurs with conventional clutch facings with steel carrier, is completely eliminated due to the large contact surface. The clutch is also thermally more resilient due to the aluminum. This is a great advantage in extreme situations (eg starting with a lot of load on a steep mountain pass road), but also offers a reassuring reserve in everyday life. The width of the flaps is manufactured for an exact fit so that the pads lie in the basket with almost no play.

DURABLE AND NON-SLIP CLUTCH FACING MATERIAL

For the clutch disks of the bgm PRO TOURING aluminum pads the same high quality sintered material is used as for the CR80 racing pads. Due to the larger contact surface in the TOURING version, the clutch engagement is softer and not aggressive. The large contact surface also improves the durability.

Vespa clutch facing Cosa

 

FULLY COMPATIBLE

The bgm PRO TOURING Alu clutch facings are designed as 1: 1 replacement for conventional Cosa2 clutch facings. They harmonize perfectly with the standard steel discs.
The thickness of the clutch facing package is the same as the original, so that no shims or spacers have to be used. The clutch facings fit all standard clutches of the Vespa Cosa2 models, the PX125-200 models from 1998 onwards as well as all vehicles retrofitted with a Cosa2 clutch. The pads are also compatible with clutches / clutch baskets based on the Cosa2 technology, e.g. Clutch -SC-, MMW, Scooter & Service or Ultrastrong. (plate width like original = 14mm)

 

NOT FITTING

The pads are not suitable for clutch plates / baskets that have been specially manufactured to accept CR80 clutch plates, eg BGM PRO Superstrong 2.0 CR80, ONKEL MIKE 'DDOG' CNC or similar (plate width CR80 = 16mm)

SCOPE OF DELIVERY

The set contains:

  • 1x clutch cover plate (one-sided lining)
  • 3x clutch friction plates (lining on both sides)

Sufficient for a Cosa2 coupling.

CONCLUSION: The BGM PRO TOURING aluminum clutch facings are an ideal upgrade of your Vespa Cosa2 clutch.

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NEW: BGM PRO Superstrong “CR” clutch for Vespa

Our BGM PRO Superstrong clutch for Vespa Largeframe engines has proven excellent performance time and again. It was now updated.
You can fit the CR clutch plates of the "Superstrong CR”Version without further ado.

BGM8299

Fully assembled clutch available

The upper disc was subject to special treatment and offers space for a reinforced top plate.
Fitting the clutch remains the same as before.

Super strong CR 045

Easy assembly

It's usually sufficient to adapt the clutch cover, as for a Cosa version.
You will find the relevant information in the download section of the product in our shop.

Super strong CR 040

The outer diameter of the CR version's clutch spider did not change.

We have merely adapted its contour for the CR discs to fit without a need for changes.

Super strong CR 038

Remaining parts like hub, sprocket and steel discs are the same as in the Superstrong Cosa version.

New Vespa clutches:

Superstrong CR is available in the following variations:

Plug & Play

Vespa PX80/PX125/PX150/Cosa125/Cosa200 (the large primary drive wheel features 67 or 68 teeth)

Vespa PX200 (the large primary drive wheel features 65 teeth or the BGM primary drive wheel features 64 teeth)

Construction kit

You can also put your own CR clutch together.

 

Recommendation for torque monsters

You have a high-torque engine and want to change it number of teeth of your primary drive wheel to 64? We recommend using a reinforced repair kit as well. Reinforced springs have an improved jolt damping and deal mechanically better with a higher torque of monster engines than the standard version.

Advantages of CR plates

We have already mentioned the advantages of CR plates for high performance engines in ours post on clutch plates. This is a short exception:

"How can such a small, flat clutch plate be better than the larger cork version?"
One: material with better friction value. Two: “effective radius”.
The outer diameter in connection with the height of the lining results in a certain radius, which is decisive Pad set Honda 012

This means that with the same diameter, the lever arm, which counters the torque at the hub, is longer, since the distance between the center of the lining and the crankshaft pivot point is larger. Which basically is the simple lever principle. So to say: it's “easier” for the clutch lining to deal with the torque.

As you can see, there are two reasons why a clutch with CR plates can transmit higher torque at the same contact pressure of springs. It is general, omnipresent physics and the material used for clutch lining.

A CR-plate set stands for a low movement of the lever and a clear and freely working clutch. The plate material also guarantees easy and secure shifting of gears in high revs.

Oil for clutches with CR plates

We recommend to use oil with Jaso-MA / MA2 or API GL-4 specifications.
Par exemple Valvoline 10W40 MA2.

Oil -VALVOLINE 4T- 4-stroke SAE 10W-40 mineral