• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 2016 TE300 Stock Fork Spring Rate?

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Trikk

Husqvarna
Still waiting on manual. Anyone know the Stock Fork Spring rates. Looking to respring the bike for a 200lb (no gear) rider. Race Tech Recommends 4.64 Front and 5.7 Rear for me, sound about right?

Thanks
 
Stock 2016 shock is 54N/mm. Stock forks are 4.2N/mm
The manual lists 4.4N fork springs for 85-95KG 187-209lbs. So 4.6N probably good for 209 - 230lbs
The 57N shock spring is for 85-95KG, 187-209lbs

So it looks like the fork spring recommendations are ok, but the shock spring one rate too soft.
 
After doing some google searches, looks like a 5.5 rear and 4.2 front were stock in 2015. Hoping there were no changes for 2016?
 
Tetley said:
Stock 2016 shock is 54N/mm. Stock forks are 4.2N/mm
The manual lists 4.4N fork springs for 85-95KG 187-209lbs. So 4.6N probably good for 209 - 230lbs
The 57N shock spring is for 85-95KG, 187-209lbs

So it looks like the fork spring recommendations are ok, but the shock spring one rate too soft.
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Awesome thanks!
 
Went with Race Tech springs 46 & 5.7. I was a little annoyed by how much shorter the Race Tech front springs are verses the Stock. Had to use a lot of preload spacers to make the spring the same length as the stockers. Anyway setup the suspension with 105mm sag out back and got a about an hour in on my HS loop yesterday. Bike handles much better now I was especially suprised how much easier it is to turn. For the Forks I backed the comp clicker's off 4 clicks, and noticed a huge difference where as with the softer springs clicker changes didn't seem to do much? I haven't messed with the stock clicker settings in the back but I noticed the rear was bucking a bit now. Wondering what the typical changes one makes clicker wise in the back after increasing the spring weight, a few clicks more damping all around I am guessing?

On another frusturating note. I destroyed up the preload collar when I initially set the sag on the stock spring. I replaced the stock one with an oem one during this spring change (as I can't afford a $150x-trig at the moment). Bought an Enduro Engineering preload collar spanner as well to prevent ruining the new collar. I realized that the shock has to be dissassembled to replace collar...WTF so I cut a slit in it one in order to split it apart and install, which worked fine. Also the Enduro Engineering spanner does not work well with the large plastic Husky subframe spars, so I had to cut most of the handle off of the spanner, and now it kills my fingers trying to spin the collar...arghh, luckily it was only $20.
 
FYI, I used a piece of oak left over from a wood working project and a hammer to adjust the preload ring once on the bike. I started with 8mm after installing the spring and then fine tuned it from there. The wood is sacrificial and won't destroy the plastic.
 
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