• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

449/511 brake pedal protection.

H

huskylove

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Well,

While doing some urban hooliganisms tonight for a couple hours (found a construction site to jump and play in the mud). I ended up hitting a railroad tie that was about under a foot water. Bent the hell out (away from bike) of the rear brake pedal when it tipped over....Which I was able to bend back without it breaking (like 80% of the way back lol). So it appears nobody makes a aftermarket unit. *AHEM HAMMERHEAD AHEM*.

What can be done to protect the stocker? I was thinking maybe a bit wider skid plate would help?

I cant believe nobody makes a replacement for these! I have looked allover! I think a folding tip *MIGHT* help if it folds up...

When I fit my supermoto wheels I will be installing basic sliders/ handguards, just to prevent some of the usual scuffs/damage.
 
The various bash plates around the place extend further out than the stocker and minimise the possible damage. Other than that perhaps look at the brake cable savers that attach from lever to frame or bash plate
 
Ok it fell off the kickstand...... again.....broke the lever tip clean off this time. So I removed it and put 2 small bolts to act as a tip for the time being. Also hitup motoxotica since they are local to see if they have a new brake pedal.

I have to leave the auto kickstand retractor thing on because im too short to put it up once on the bike.


so ill powdercoat the new pedal put on a hammerhead folding tip, wrap it in a thick bike tube, then make a brake snake fit. Hope that fixed it! >:(
 
Oh....my....god....

40 bucks for a front brake lever....


80 bucks for the rear brake pedal with tip...

ordered them plus some other parts as spares in case something else happens. (Kickstand, handguard plastics, clutch and brake arc levers, shifter, etc.)

Ya know, in case of apocalypse or ktm drops all the parts into a volvano.
 
huskylove said:
Ok it fell off the kickstand...... again.....broke the lever tip clean off this time. So I removed it and put 2 small bolts to act as a tip for the time being. Also hitup motoxotica since they are local to see if they have a new brake pedal.

I have to leave the auto kickstand retractor thing on because im too short to put it up once on the bike.


so ill powdercoat the new pedal put on a hammerhead folding tip, wrap it in a thick bike tube, then make a brake snake fit. Hope that fixed it! >:(
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Your bike fell off the side stand and broke the brake pedal lever? Wow, Ive never heard a bike falling 'back' over horizontal and down the other side? Usually fall clutch side. There are replacement brake pedals available around the place ebay et al
 
really? "I ended up hitting a railroad tie that was about under a foot water." I mean you guys are looking to protect the brake pedal?? from crashing into a railroad tie? Its a forged piece of alloy attached to 275 lbs of motorcycle + rider going 25? MPH into a 250lb railroad tie, you're lucky the only thing that bent was the brake pedal. things break when crashing into other things.
 
No no, the front slipped along it and off. It was not a big violent crash. It just slid a bit. Barely scratched it but snagged that pedal. Though I am convinced that the brake pedal tip would snap off by looking at it.
 
understand, look at the ZipTy racing alloy tips, for the brake pedal and the shifter pedal tip as well, it takes a little fabrication but is a nice piece. However if you nail a rock or other hard hit the pedal shaft can always bend. Contact Tinken for consultation.
On my older series 450/510 bikes I added welds to the brake pedal steel tips after a few of then stripped off from rock hits. I dont know how your 449/511 set up is but heres an example of my weld job with a second pedal that got stripped off in the rocks.
 
Only picture I could really find of my brake pedal tip. The brake adjuster is ours, keeps you from snapping off the weak Husqvarna one and the new brake reservoir cap which vents off heat.

Brake_resv_cap_close.jpg


http://www.ziptyracing.com/brake-pedal-tip/
http://www.ziptyracing.com/brake-stop-husqvarna-1st-edition/
http://www.ziptyracing.com/brembo-reservoir-cap/
 
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