• 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.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Front brake fingers

Poopy

Poopy

Husqvarna
AA Class
Whats your single track, hard riding front brake finger setup? Im starting to use my middle finger only.....just wondering what others do.

:cool:
 
I'm too un-coordinated to use only a middle finger. I usually use the first two or just my index finger.
 
It depends on what bike I'm riding. I usually use 3 on my KTM, as it just seems to need a little more beef to get it reined in. I usually use 2 on my SV650 and the 610, or even 1 when I'm in the dirt, and I found myself subconsciously using only 1 finger (index) when on the WR125 the last time I rode it. I usually use 2 in the dirt, but I noticed halfway through the day that my index finger was a little tender (I've torn the tendon in that finger before) and then realized it was because I was only using that 1 finger. That's all it really takes on the tiny 125 :)




WoodsChick
 
Index only. Been that way on all my bikes specially Trials.

Those front brakes on the 125... you just have to breath on it.:D

Lots of stopping power there.:lol::lol:
 
index finger only. I bleed mine often and with a mity-vac so they are super touchy. I like being able to use just one finger.
 
I'm another "index finger only" guy and I pretty much leave my index finger resting on the front brake 100% of the time when in the woods or on the street. IMO it's a very good habit for speeding up reaction time. It also makes it harder to accidentally lock up the front wheel during panic braking.
 
When my brakes are bled properly and working right (not now) I usually use just my index. With my front disc being a little tweaked and feeling like ABS I need about three fingers to squeeze tight enough to brake.
 
jlk_250;87133 said:
I pretty much leave my index finger resting on the front brake 100% of the time when in the woods or on the street. IMO it's a very good habit for speeding up reaction time. It also makes it harder to accidentally lock up the front wheel during panic braking.
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Ya I forgot to add that too.:thumbsup: Very good habit. IMHO.

:cheers:
 
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