Lyndall Brakes is a twenty-six-year-old family-owned business well-known for pioneering advanced materials, mechanical designs, and methods of manufacturing in a tireless effort to deliver the ultimate performance braking experience to our highly valued customers. From ceramic composite to full carbon/carbon brakes, from conventional button-style floating rotors to our patented lug-drive floating rotors. No one company has delivered a broader spectrum of innovation to performance braking for the V-twin market segment. Period. Full Stop.
Through the years, we have witnessed many trends in the V-twin community and we have had the opportunity to develop binders for some of the world's fastest land speed record holders, AHDRA, Top Fuel and Nitro classes, as well as AFT flat track teams such as Indian Motorcycle Co. and, fan favorite, privateer Jeffery Carver. Just to name a few, but it wasn't until 2018 when this new craze of tracking streetable Dynas, M8 Softails, and the occasional XR1200 on track days at places like Willow Springs, Button Willow, and Chuckwalla became a “thing”. At first it was little more than a muse, nonetheless we were keenly interested in this latest trend, as it offered Lyndall Brakes a unique opportunity to continue our lifelong pursuit of developing and testing on relevant platforms in a suitable environment for pushing the performance envelope to its ragged edge.
The trend of tracking your street-legal’ish Harley-Davidson on any local road course quickly grew in popularity with many Harley and Indian brand owners and enthusiasts wanting to try the latest craze. Fast forward to October 2020, MotoAmerica announces an exhibition race on V-twin touring bikes, they aptly named King of the Baggers, which consequently garnered one million views on Fox Sports West to everyone's amazement!
In the pioneering days of this counterintuitive sport, the paddocks and grid were packed with privateers and independents of every ilk. Thrashing amid the feverish pace of development needed to secure, or steadily approach, the highly coveted podium finish, every race offered teams, athletes, and companies alike an incredible opportunity to enhance their performance.
The pace of development from 2020 to 2025 has been staggering when you take a moment (only a moment) and look back to see how much faster the entire field is year after year. To the point where the demands required to continue the breakneck pace of development exponentially increases from quite interesting to downright intimidating.
- We know from experience that being well outside one’s comfort zone is where the best opportunity to reach new heights and achieve one’s lofty goals can be realized. -
This being said, it’s a strange irony that the truest successes are typically met with a succession of failures.
Failing forward is an art, some are afraid to fail, some are afraid to win, either way, this sport we love is not concerned with egos nor the faint of heart, it cares not if you were yesterday’s champion, or if you are considered to be amongst the best of team, rider, or company to grace the paddock. The sport’s sole concern outside of safety and enjoyment for all is in this golden opportunity to test and quantifiably measure one’s progress, on a world stage so to speak, against a benchmark of world-class competitors, at beautiful facilities across our nation, graciously provided to us by the world-class organization we know as MotoAmerica. This is the environment that will stretch you to the limits of all comprehension. Testing your resolve to win, yielding the highest of highs, and occasionally the lowest of lows. Incredibly rewarding and brutally humbling almost simultaneously, it’s an environment to which you get comfortable being uncomfortable, one where you take life and the day that is at face value, a place where one can come and seek one’s personal best. A place where one develops the ability to not get attached to outcomes, but rather to enjoy the process, the continual and abundantly quantifiable progress through the daily process. This my friends is the goal as I see it and this is why you will find us here, doing what we love, simply for the love of it.