Italian brakes specialist Newfren has quite a pedigree having been a top European manufacturer of brake discs and pads since before they were the standard tech for the motorcycle industry, since the days when brake shoes were the ubiquitous solution.
Indeed, that is where the company started in the late 1950s, when Alessandro Barbero, a creative person who was always looking for new ideas, discovered a revolutionary new glue that changed brake shoe production for ever.
The glue replaced the rivets for fixing the friction material to the brake shoe casting, and having installed what was then the first brake friction material gluing station in Europe, Barbero quickly went on to build Newfren into one of the most important brake shoe production specialists in Europe.
The body of the brake shoes is die-cast in a special aluminium alloy complying with EN 1676:2010 standards. The new friction material "with exceptional characteristics" is said to offer "considerable advantages in terms of braking, improving safety in city traffic thanks to its high resistance to fatigue".
The Newfren brake pad range also evolves constantly, thanks in large part to victorious MX GP and street championship partnerships, with 20 different application-specific brake pad compounds available for most motorcycle models from the 1970s right up to today.
NEWFREN S.R.L
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