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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

40mm fork -how to-

Picklito said:
It's the other way around. Less offset at clamps, forks move back relative to steering stem, trail increases.
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Regardless it has been proven that less offset in the triple clamps produces tighter steering capability at the same rake. I was incorrect in my interpretation of trail, however I am an expert in the effect of reducing the offset in triples as I have done it without jacking up the rear and keeping the original level and stance.
 
dumpbear said:
Hi edgo I converted a 76cr to a 40mm but i kept the ball bearings I had a spacer made for the top and bottom bearing cup I tig welded the spacer to the cup and it works good,alot better feel than the stock forks.
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Nice mod, dumpbear!
 
dumpbear said:
Hi edgo I converted a 76cr to a 40mm but i kept the ball bearings I had a spacer made for the top and bottom bearing cup I tig welded the spacer to the cup and it works good,alot better feel than the stock forks.
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Hey DumpBear, I am converting my '78 CR to 40mm Enduro forks. I know i'll have to run the forks up 1.5"+ in the tripl clamps and maybe a little longer shocks. I'd like to know what did with the long forks on your '76 and the outcome? Thanks!
 
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