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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Suspension set up..

Re: brake pads.
For the track (only) Bendix make a carbon matrix pad for some bikes and maybe a carbon/metal pad set. The straight carbons are the pick for the track. They are absolutely amazing. Do not know for sure if they are available for the TR calipers, but there is a reasonable chance they may make them for these calipers but listed as a different bike ( ie use the same pads). Once you use them you wonder how you ever used anything else, BUT you MUST run them in properly as per instructions, and they are useless on the road, as they have to be heated up and kept hot to work. They leave a blue carbon glaze on the discs that increases friction and must be deposited first ( only once unless you clean the discs). They also transfer much less heat to the caliper pistons). I used them on some NSR250's and an ER6N ( non std caliper) for racing. Incredible feel and control and amazing stopping power. Also much lighter. There is also a new pad available that I havent tried.

http://www.kenma.com.au/ben_carb.html
 
O.e.hansson said:
Well found out the hard way that even thou i beefed up the brakes alot they need some more beefing. Overheated them and ran straight out of the track, lucky for me there was an escape so i stayed on the wheels. I see dual discs in the future.

A trackday costs about 150usd.
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Yeowch! reading this and Gregs comments above, makes me wander what the supermoto guys run? Sounds like a decent price on the track days. Round here it's literally double that figure.
 
Our race days used to cost about 120bucks a day for 4 races 2 pracs in each of 2 classes ( 25bucks extra if you didn't have a race licence). But that was a go kart track we hired . Mareeba was about the same but the track was 1200m instead of 900m (and had an actual straight and 5!!! 180deg hairpins. Marreeba you can hire anytime unless there is a Go Kart meet on for yourself for $75. You may have to share the track with other hirers though.
 
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