Ventus V1, V1+ and EVO: which brake parts actually fit yours
The Ventus rear brake is the single most-returned part we handle, and it is almost always the same mistake: two bolt spacings that look identical in a photo. Here is how to read your own bike before you order.
More riders land on our site searching for a Ventus rear brake than almost any other single part, and a good number of them order the wrong one. Not because they picked carelessly — because Ventus used two different brake assemblies that look identical in a product photo and are not interchangeable.
This is the post we wish existed when we started stocking these. There are 196 Ventus parts in our catalogue; getting the right one takes about ninety seconds with a tape measure.
Measure the bolt spacing before anything else
Ventus front and rear brake assemblies come in 74.2 mm and 95.5 mm mounting spacings. That measurement — centre to centre between the two caliper mounting bolts — is the whole decision. It is not determined by your model year, your colour, or what the seller listed it as. Measure it.
- Caliper off, or measure between the bolt heads with the caliper in place.
- Centre of one bolt to centre of the other.
- 74.2 and 95.5 are far enough apart that you cannot mistake one for the other once you have a ruler on it.
Then pick the matching part:
- Ventus V1+ Rear Brake Assembly 74.2 mm — the foot brake, narrow spacing
- Ventus V1+ Rear Brake Assembly 95.5 mm — the foot brake, wide spacing
- Ventus V1+ Front Brake Assembly 74.2 mm
- Ventus V1+ Front Brake Assembly 95.5 mm
If you searched for a foot brake or a rear brake pedal and came up empty, that is our fault rather than yours — the rear brake assembly is the part you want, and it is the one that operates off your right foot.
Fastace bikes are a separate part, not a variant
Earlier Ventus builds shipped with Fastace brake hardware, and those assemblies are listed separately:
If your bike wears Fastace suspension, check the brake hardware before assuming a V1+ assembly drops in.
V1 pads and V1+ pads are different parts
This one catches people who have owned the bike for years. Ventus Brake Pads V1 and Ventus V1+ Brake Pads are not the same shape. Ordering by bike name alone — "it's a Ventus" — is how you end up with pads that will not seat.
Same story with the disc: there is an old-style brake disc for earlier bikes. If your rotor bolt pattern does not match a current disc, that is the one to look at.
The brackets are the quiet failure
Two parts nobody thinks about until a caliper is hanging loose:
If you have ever had a caliper shift under hard braking, replace the bracket at the same time as the assembly. Bent brackets are common on bikes that have been down, and a new caliper bolted to a tweaked bracket will drag pads for the rest of its life.
Going supermoto on a Ventus
The Ventus One+ takes our Sur-Ron Light Bee X 17" supermoto set — but not on its own. You also need the LBX Front Hub Spacer Set, which is the pair of spacers that lets an LBX front wheel run in a Ventus fork. Sold as a pair, and there is no substitute that we would put our name on.
That set ships bare: no rotors, no sprocket, no spacers beyond what is listed. Plan the brake hardware into the budget rather than discovering it on the bench.
When you are genuinely not sure
Send us a photo. A clear shot of the caliper area with a tape measure across the bolts settles it in one message, and we would rather answer that than process a return. We are a real service bay in Colorado Springs, and the person who answers has had these apart.
Browse everything that fits your bike in the Ventus collection, or narrow by bike on the parts by bike page. Shopping for the bike itself? The Ventus V1+ EVO is the current model.