• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

46mm KYB forks on my WR430

everfree said:
84scrambler, you are right. At least static sag and rider sag can be measured, taking the guess work out. Justintendo is right, once the sag is balanced front to back the improvement should be huge. I need to focus on suspension setup more. I don't have it "yet" either!
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These conversations make me wonder the bikes that were "so so" performers simply because of poor suspension set up? Definitely need additional research on this.
 
Darrel78 said:
These conversations make me wonder the bikes that were "so so" performers simply because of poor suspension set up? Definitely need additional research on this.
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I would bet that most bikes are not setup properly for their riders. But if you ride a lot or race, you would have to get your bike dialed in.
There must be a table out there of spring rates vs. rider weights. Some guidance would help pick the right spring rates would be nice.
 
everfree said:
I would bet that most bikes are not setup properly for their riders. But if you ride a lot or race, you would have to get your bike dialed in.
There must be a table out there of spring rates vs. rider weights. Some guidance would help pick the right spring rates would be nice.
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it likely depends on suspension design, i dont think you can just pick a spring stiffness based on rider weight.
the 85/86 and 87/88 bikes are a good example. two different rear suspension designs and the same rider takes 2 different springs to have the same effect. front forks may be a bit easier..
this is part of the reason suspension shops are still in business! when i sent my 95 suspension to drew at WER, somehow my sag was awfully close already, just how it arrived in the mail...;)
 
I was curious about the difference in overall length of the two different fork setups so decided to measure tonight ( never occurred to me to do this before beginning this project). Turns out the KX forks are 1/4" (6mm) shorter than the original units however they seem to have more room wrt travel. This plays well into Justintendo's observation of sag measures being off. Seems the smart ones among us would do these measurements ahead of time! On another note I took the bike out this evening and rode over a trail that's very rough ( rough to the point of being difficult for an old fat guy to hang on). I was easily two gears higher now and marveled at how much better the ride is! Not really a fair comparison as we've already established my suspension was no where near set up properly but I'm sure loving the difference! Plus I'm still a sucker for the "wow" factor of the USD forks.
 
will the kx forks bottom to point of putting the tire into the fender? this is also something to check as it can be very dangerous, since you say they are shorter but with more travel..you can remove springs and collapse forks to check.
 
justintendo said:
will the kx forks bottom to point of putting the tire into the fender? this is also something to check as it can be very dangerous, since you say they are shorter but with more travel..you can remove springs and collapse forks to check.
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Very good point, Justintendo! Yes, this we did check and we've easily 1/2" clearance when the forks reach the travel limit. This is less than with the original set up but also with a completely different tire. We're DOT legal front and rear now with trials type tires. The profile of these tires are much different than the knobbies before. Come to think of it that's yet another nod to suspension set up and handling.
 
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