• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

More bite up front (TE)

Travis Shrey

Travis Shrey

Husqvarna
A Class
Has anyone done anything to get more braking power up front? I ride mostly street and think I may have been better off with an SM than a TE, but it's what I've got now. Different pads, bigger rotor? Let me know your experiences.
 
You can get a supermoto brake kit with a 320 rotor and caliper bracket. many aftermarket brake kits available.
 
~$30 for a set of EBC HH Sintered pads is a good place to start, and a lot cheaper than an SM brake conversion. Your next step would be a 320mm rotor and caliper bracket. Still won't have the bite of an SM caliper, but it would be an improvement.

Just don't get carried away, you'll wash out in dirt, and you'll wash out on the street with aggressive knobbies.
 
Use both brakes.

Stop riding it like you're Jorge Lorenzo. It wasn't designed for that.
 
I have switched away from aggressive knobbies and do use both brakes - I'll wash out in dirt due to the Shinko 705 on the front long before braking becomes a concern in the dirt. No idea who the hell Jorge Lorenzo is. I want more stopping power for when the occasional cager pulls out in front of me.

Thanks for the info.
 
Darkside said:
You can get a supermoto brake kit with a 320 rotor and caliper bracket. many aftermarket brake kits available.
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I'm not finding this to be true. I can't locate a front caliper relocation bracket for a 630 - all the husky stuff I can find only goes up to a 511.
 
Try the same sized rotor, just one with fewer / smaller vent holes. that will give you more breaking surface. The stock rotor has way too much venting.
Contact a break specialist and find out if it is possible to up the hyraulic pressure.
 
+1 on the sintered pads. I use EBC on the road bike and it's a big difference over standard pads, disc wear is heavier but worth it. 320mm Supermoto would be way too much braking off road plus would tear an off road tyre to bits.
 
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