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Road Line brake pads
Italian brakes specialist
Newfren has updated its brake
pads programme with new
compounds and applications,
offering its distributors access
to a comprehensive range with
coverage for most popular
makes and model of on and offroad motorcycles and scooters.
Their Road Line now features a
single premium R01 Sintered
Race formula that Newfren say
has been developed for
Superbike, Superstock,
Supersport and Supermoto
models.
Described as an "innovative
sintered racing titanium
technology" with a friction
coefficient HH+ rating, it
features a new Zirconium
ceramic "NWF Pro Tech" heat
shield.
The company has two lines of
sintered and organic pads for
street bikes - the TT Pro range,
which is said to be ideal for
track and road use, and is
recommended for the new
generation of high performance
street bikes and the Touring
range - specially formulated for

long distance riding, they are
said to offer durability, comfort
and stability in dry and wet
conditions.
Newfren has five lines of brake
pads for off-roaders, one of
which is a specialty sintered

race formulation, and three
lines of scooter pads - including
sintered and organic pads
specially formulated for the
demands of urban riding and
the greater stopping
performance demanded by the
new generation of maxiscooters.
Founded in the 1950s by
Alessandro Barbero, Newfren
were innovators and early
adopters of a number of new
brake technologies, such as
bonded friction material,
gravity and high pressure die
casting and brake shoes
without rivets.
The company is still in family
ownership with Valter Barbero
at the helm, and has just

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completed an 18 month multimillion Euro investment
programme in new
manufacturing technology at its
6,000 sqm facilty/10,000 sqm
site at Cirie near Turin, where
they make brake pads, brake
shoes, backing plates, clutch
plates and parts and brake discs
and assemblies.
NEWFREN S.r.l.
Cirié (TO), ITALY
Tel. [phone]
[e-mail]
www.newfren.it