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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC 2015 Suspension - Making 'stock' work

hawaii-rider said:
Quick Feedback

I did a full up break in ride this past weekend on my '15 TE300.
I checked the fork fluid level during my tear down/inspect/mod when I first got the bike and installed proper springs for me (240 pound rider target) from Slavens Racing.

I ride single track predominantly in the PNW, so lots of rocks and roots and whooped out hi use trails.
For starters, I set the suspension on the comfort setting front and rear per the owners manual shock sag set right at 100mm.

About 1/2 through the day I made the following adjustments:
Fork: 2 clicks softer on compression, 2 clicks firmer on rebound.
Shock: 2 clicks firmer on rebound

Someone asked at the end of the day how the suspension was.......

Shock: I honestly couldnt tell them about the rear ------ which means it was working pretty well if I couldnt remember any bad or it trying to toss me into the trees or rocks and roots. No kicks, no blowing through the stroke or bottoming hard or wanting to pass the front wheel.
Forks: Forks were a bit stiff to start with, but after the adjustments (and just two clicks to both settings) the forks were great the rest of the day. No sharp direction changes or harsh bottoming or deflection on rocks or roots. No shots up through the wrists to the shoulders etc etc.


The day after I tried to think again if there was anything that "stood out" about the bike/suspension and all I could do was grin to the point of hurting my face.
What an amazing machine with a fantastic motor. (oh and the NECJ needle was the ticket - wow.....response off idle is seamless but thats a separate thread)

I need more hours on the machine and continue to evaluate and see if things change - who knows what will happen and if my feelings on the suspension will change or not.
If the weather holds for this weekend I intend to do just that !!

Right now if you asked me about after market suspension mods......?
for me there is no reason to box up and send either the front or rear off to anyone, its pretty darn sweet right off the floor with some minor clicks and proper springs.

More hours is required now and see how I feel as time and miles go by.

HR
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I think that you have the same first impression as most of us did, myself included. It started to get weird for me anyway after about 15-20hrs of riding so I'm interested to see how the 15's do after some time.
 
Not everyone sends their suspension out to us, we sell all of our tuning parts/oils. Many people purchase their springs from us, usually either RaceTech or Eibach, you specify (they are both Eibach, but RT is a little different material). The valving can be purchased as well. Jeff Slavens is a friend/dealer of mine, he sells many of my products. I like him, I don't think you can go wrong there.

I have yet to see any of the professional racers/teams use stock 4CS forks, even those teams (I won't mention names here) who claim they do, are not. I honestly believe that KTM (WP) purposely built/used a complicated suspension system which would force a giant network of aftermarket suspension tuning sales. Aftermarket sales is a huge industry for KTM and I don't see it dissipating anytime soon, especially with the upcoming release of their air suspension.
 
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