• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1973 450wr rear shocks---what's good?

FirstEliminator

FirstEliminator

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hey guys,

I searched around for a while looking to see what would be a good replacement shock for my 73. The progressive suspension are probably what I will choose as they are cheap and will get me going for now. The shocks that are on the 73 now are 12" eye to eye. When typing into e-bay, I've seen 13". But, how much longer of a shock can I put on? There are 15" available, but they are probably too long for a 73.

Any recommendatons?
thanks,
Mark
 
You can go longer or shorter. The length of the rear shock raises and lowers the rear end of the bike and there by changes the steering head angle.
The more you raise the back of the bike the quicker it will steer, but you will loose straight line stability.
It's a trade off and becomes a personal choice.
 
Almost everyone puts longer rear shocks on all brands of '74-older Vintage bikes. Typically people go 1"+ to sharpen turning, but on that bike I'm sure you could go 13.5".
 
I ordered some Progressive Suspension 13.5" shocks. An inch and a half doesn't seem like much. But, they looks alot longer than what is on there. I have had much time recently to install the new shocks, but I am curious and will get to it soon. A few more hurdles to go before I can ride this bike--but getting closer.
 
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