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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC OEM brake pads and replacing the front rotor.

BSBen

BSBen

Husqvarna
AA Class
Anyone know what the stock brake pads are on the front of the '15 TE300?

I like the OEM pads for the riding I do, but US$100 is completely insane. I suspect that I can get the exact same thing at like 1/3 the price if I just knew mfg/make/model.

Am I being naive?

Also, I'm asking because I had to replace the front rotor this week (bent by abuse). The installation instructions say to replace the pads at the same time since the break-in will take longer if I use the old pads. Is that the only issue? If so, I'm happy taking longer to break in such an expensive set of pads - especially since there's so much life left in the existing ones.

Any thoughts appreciated.
 
Also, here's a nice pic from my recent trip to Colorado which was totally great. :)


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And here's another one from the same trip which wasn't so great, but still better than a good day at the office:

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they are Brembo pads.
there are so many substitutes and replacements from cheap to not cheap, including various compounds. Sintered metal race pads are typically stock.
Personally Ive used the OEM stock Brembos up front they last practically forever and work well for me (I try not to think cost too much with my bike its a race machine), for rear I used* the Red EBC carbon pads for zero squeal but a different feel that I like, plus its mostly dry here, these pads are great but Ive changed after 1 day of racing in the past. You need to find what you like and works for you, EBC, Braking, etc etc heck so many choices you need to research.

* for years Ive used red EBC Carbon X pads in the rear, but for 2017 KTM/Husky(Brembo) have introduced a new pad material that I really like and has no squeal, Im staying with OEM Brembo pads on this machine.
 
I bought the Braking sintered pads for the very same reason(cost), but I'm bummed with how much they squeal:(
 
I saw the Brembo label on the pads, but for whatever reason I assumed they were made by someone else and Brembo just slapped their name on them. I don't know where I got the notion and I could (should) have looked into it before posting.

At any rate, I got Galfer sintered pads. There's plenty of pad left on the Brembos, but I didn't want to risk an extended break-in period because I have a race on Sunday and no time to ride between now and then. OTOH, it looks like Sunday's going to be muddy AF, so maybe I'm better off with brakes that aren't super grippy...

Bah.
 
At risk of creating a shitstorm I just use cheap chinga ebay sintered pads. 3 fronts & 3 rears for $55AU delivered. Seem to last well, don't chew up disc & give good feel/power. Buggered if I'm paying $40-$50 for a set of pads. I've had pro X & goldfren pads wear to metal on a single muddy ride!
 
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