• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

Fork Height

D

Droolsport

Husqvarna
A Class
I am not real happy with the front end feel on my bike in tighter single track stuff. Front seems really busy and wont hold a line and seems to deflect off everything. Almost like I am getting to much traction and the front tire is just skimming the terrain. I have set the sag to 100mm and now looking at the fork height. The forks are currently set to the second line from the top. I think I need to lower the forks in the triple clamp to gain stability correct? Share any experience you have with raising or lowering forks on the 08/09 bikes.

Eric
 
Pushing the forks back down in clamps will gain some high speed stability and slow the steering response a little.

Playing with the compression/dampening clicks a bit more can help..........just a guess, but assuming air pressure isn't too high in tire and/or building up in forks, might be too much rebound (not enough dampening) for the forks causing front end to push out.......try turning in a couple more clicks at a time on rebound and see how it feels

Didn't find what I was looking for, but should be able do an internet search on suspension set-up and find a couple places that list problems/fixes.

Real fix may be a revalve and verifying proper springs for you and your conditions.
 
RLW;57495 said:
Real fix may be a revalve and verifying proper springs for you and your conditions.
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That's what has fixed all my fork problems that caused poor trail manners.
 
The dealer set my forks where they are even with the top of the op triple clamp and it handles great. We also put 5w fork oil in it before I brought it home. I dont know if it was because of my weight or not (200lbs) but it handles better than any bike Ive ever had.
 
My 2010 TC250 had a similar "light" feel on fast uphills. I lowered the fork tubes to 6mm above top clamp (from 12mm) as suggested in a Motocross Action test and just got back from riding Zaca Station MX a FAST outdoor national type track with long fast uphills and downhills and it felt awesome.
 
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