• 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.

    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

SMR 511 Ferodo race spec brake pads

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Suputin

Husqvarna
AA Class
Finally got out to try my new race spec brake pads on the SMR 511. There is some confusion as to which pads fit the 511 and which don't. The 511 pads are the same shape as those that fit the BMW S1000R but there is a difference in the thickness of some pads.

The Ferodo XRac (FA604) are actually listed for the BMW but these pads are the identical shape and size as the OEM pads on the 511. I measured thickness etc and these pads are the exact same dimensions as the originals that came on the bike.

Posted on another forum there was all kinds of whinging that race pads would offer no stopping force until they were hot. I actually rode the bike a number of block and yanked a couple of stoppies before I remembered I had changed the pads. I had done the work a few weeks ago and it slipped my mind.

The XRac pads offer more initial bite and better braking with less lever force. They also have better modulation than the OEM pads and most importantly didn't seem to fade like the OEM pads do. So far I am quite impressed with these pads. Especially because I had some trouble finding any race spec pads to fit this bike.
 
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