Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

GIOCAR AMERICA CORPORATION EXCLUSIVE AGENT GA.LIER GALFER KEVLAR BRAKE PADS EA5~ IHDUSTIlAS GAUE. S.A. has been manufacturing friction malerials since 1950. During tha t time, its unequaled experience has made it a suppl ie r o f original equipment to the majority of European automotive manufacturers. INDUSTRIAS GALFER SA has always been a farward think ing organiz a tio n . Its Research and Development Department applies the most advanced technology to both the produ ct and its production process. Befare lea v ing the factor y, all GALFER products pa ss through a strict quality contro l that guaran tees their maximum safety. The Motorcycle DiYision was farmed a s an independ e n t entity in the early e ighties. An experien ce team of managers and techn itians /engineers have established themselves over the years as experts in the field of top -level competition . Some of these are motorcycle racers th e ms e lve s, with tro ph ies from several Superbikes championship . EFFECTIVE BRAKE UPGRADE BRA KES ARE EASY TO TAKE FOR GARANTED. We squeeze the lever and push the peda l, and we stop. End of report. But there is a difference in the quality o f stopping power, a difference not dependent upon tires or traction -or the cleverness o f design of your bike 's broke system. It has to do with the quality of pod to-disc friction.Never have we been more aware of this than during our evaluation of Golfer Kevlar pods (Giocar America Corporation, 104 Son Federico Ave. Santo Barbara, Copyright DIRT RIDER Magazine. photo by Mark Kariya tallic elements, and that they don 't conto in asbestos. Wha tever they do or don't contain they work. These are two-finger pods. Squeeze the lever lightly, using iust the first two fingers of your right hand, and the Golfers deliver instant, immediate broke bite. We tried them on several machines, and the result always wa s the same . Squeeze a littie harder, still applying not very much ove rall lever pressure, and you stop hard no maffer how fast you 're go ing, all the while with excellent broke modulation and lever CA 931 11,805/ 967-272 61. The Golfer pods don 't reduce stop- feedback. ping distances from those achieved We used the Golfers hard, over many weeks and miles. We rode w ith the best co nve ntional compounds, but they do make bards ag gressively in the mountains, and tops more controllable, and also we raced with them. They didn't greatly reduce fade after repeated fade for us, not even a liffle. They didn't wear much, and they appear hard stops. The folks at Giocor, who import the to be very easy on brake rotors. pods from Spain, where they are ma- We 're very impressed -so impress ed, nufactured, aren't saying much about in fact, that we 're sticking these on pod compound, beyond odmiffing our personal bikes. that the pods contain Kevlar and meby DON CANET "A LL THAT REMAIN S FOR US TO BRAKE IS TIM E" 1434 • • THE NEW GENERATION Industrias Ga lfer, following its pol icy of improving its products, is launch ing now its "GA l FER 1434" compound into the U.S. market. This new material is the result of the "GA l FER 1532" compound development. As the rotor industry is try ing to unify the brake d isc system, Industrias Galfer has developed the "GAlFER 14 34 " on steel rotors. The GALFER 1434 BRAKE PADS test results say that: - offered the best feel - offer long er lasting life - results have been fully satisfactory on the track, on the street, and on off-road. The GAlFER 1434 compound is definitely the most technologically adva nced and performed brake pad materia l. DEPARTMENT R + D : TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS MATERIAL GALFER 1434 GG Spe~ 9.,a~.. 2 .75 ± 0.10 9'f-/e-3 7E!?tJe"wea ~4 (~) .. 70 S~

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