• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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.

    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

250-500cc Rear brake fried

firecrotch

firecrotch

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Half way though my ride today I thought I had a flat. No flat continued then I smelt burning brakes. Stopped and my rear brake was smoking. Its like huh? Anyway the rotor was slighlty discolored slightly orangish. I let out some brake fluid to get the pressure of the brakes. Not sure exaclty what happened. Its almost like something got wedged somewhere to compress the rear brake as it was fine at the start of the ride and it happened when I was climbing and not even using the rear brakes. Anyway my question is how would I know if the rotor is OK? It seems ok I just cooked that sucker and not sure if I made it brittle now or something?
 
You had recently replaced the brakes and didn't bleed them. You had added fluid over time as the brakes wore down. When you replaced the brakes, now you had too much fluid in the master cylinder and when they got hot the brakes started to drag.
 
Yeah was gonna redo the fluid and buy new pads. Just curious if theres a way to determine if rotors are somehow bad. They "appear" ok.
 
I've boiled my fluid before and lost all pressure, but I've never seen smoke. You must've had those babies hot!

That solid rear rotor is a pain in my rear. Makes the brakes too hot and eats brake pads quick.
I go through 2-3 fronts for every set of rears.... totally opposite from every other bike I've owned.
 
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