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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

125-200cc Squealing Brembos?

I just bought a new FE-350 and the front brake started squeaking after three hours. I spoke to a few guys that claimed that the "Anti-Squeal" gels applied to the back of the pads where it makes contact to the piston solves the problem.
I only have four hours on the bike.
Apart from the squealing, the Brembos are awesome!
I'll try the gel and update.
 
Years ago a teacher in trade school said that brake squeal is usually pad movement against the caliper. Often happens after rotors have been turned and the cutter speed was too high causing fine lines in a thread like pattern. This causes the pads to slightly walk up the rotor then drop (like a needle at the end of a record) making the squeal. Class dismissed. Lol
 
Travis616 said:
Years ago a teacher in trade school said that brake squeal is usually pad movement against the caliper. Often happens after rotors have been turned and the cutter speed was too high causing fine lines in a thread like pattern. This causes the pads to slightly walk up the rotor then drop (like a needle at the end of a record) making the squeal. Class dismissed. Lol
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That is true and to add to that before class is dismissed it is also true that except for asbestos the better braking friction materials are more prone to setting up the noise wear patterns. This is why some high end cars like Mercedes will make a brake squeal on the first few stops before the brakes are heated up and especially backing up since the pad wear changes direction. It is primarily an American concept that brakes should never make noise... If someone asks why their brakes squeak the simple answer is "The good ones will do that".
 
lankydoug said:
That is true and to add to that before class is dismissed it is also true that except for asbestos the better braking friction materials are more prone to setting up the noise wear patterns. This is why some high end cars like Mercedes will make a brake squeal on the first few stops before the brakes are heated up and especially backing up since the pad wear changes direction. It is primarily an American concept that brakes should never make noise... If someone asks why their brakes squeak the simple answer is "The good ones will do that".
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I don't know about that completely, my Audi brakes are quiet and work VERY WELL
 
The early can am atv's had some strange brake noises and bombardier had optional pads that helped get rid of the noise - they were a softer compound that would wear out quicker but didn't seem to make any noise. Definitely something in the materials of different pads that make some prone to noise
 
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