• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Going on record as a Hater

I'm all ears too. I don't ride any sand or soft tracks just hard packed red clay and rocks. I'd like to hear what Ty does with these conditions. Good luck and thanks for the update.
 
HuskyMax said:
Anxious to see what Ty does to your forks. My thoughts are pretty close to yours. I actually like the feel on big hits and landings. Bike tracks great and doesn't do anything funny. Straight up sucks on trail litter and and roots. Feels like they are packing up, but I'm no expert.
Was your front static or race sag even close with stock springs? I'm fat at 235 and the front race sag wasn't even close (way too high).
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went with 6.1kgmm rear spring and .48 front springs number fall right into sag spec me 210 nekkid so add easy 15 with gearplus even more with a baja tool and water package.
 
You have 2 weeks to get that new bike working like you want. Then you will have to race Rd 10 the 100 Nationals Come on lets see if you can beat this old man on his old out dated Husky CR 300.
 
John it is a tall order this year, I leave for biz tues and return on 24th. no time for prep, tires are shot, front mousse is like at the 5psi level, rear is on tube, thats fairly quick but lack of prep always leaves me uptight. excuses......its not falling well into place this year for me.
 
No problem there my Buddy Mr Robert I will accept your surrender I will move our new match up date to Rd 1 in Jan Where I hope to be on a new TE 125 See I am now giving you a displacement advantage Are we have fun yet


Really no problem just having fun at your expense
 
ajaxauto said:
No problem there my Buddy Mr Robert I will accept your surrender I will move our new match up date to KING OF MOTOs in Feb Where I hope to be on a new TE 125 See I am now giving you a displacement advantage Are we have fun yet


Really no problem just having fun at your expense
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Changed it for you ;)
 
HuskyMax said:
Anxious to see what Ty does to your forks. My thoughts are pretty close to yours. I actually like the feel on big hits and landings. Bike tracks great and doesn't do anything funny. Straight up sucks on trail litter and and roots. Feels like they are packing up, but I'm no expert.
Was your front static or race sag even close with stock springs? I'm fat at 235 and the front race sag wasn't even close (way too high).
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That's pretty much how I feel about my Berg. Don't know if Huskys and bergs have the same or similar valving. I'm fatter, 275, and have .46's in front and a real stuff progressive in the rear, can't recall what rate. It is great on big whoops, sand, g-outs and hard landings but yeah, straight up it sucks in hacked out crap and god help me in rough lose off camber stuff. Can't wait to see what Ty does for these. I also have a set of Zokes for a 610 that might need his attention, but I actually feel my 4cs's are dangerous right now!
 
I had a older FE390 70 degree motored berg for about 200 miles of serious demo (high mountains ion WA). One of my favorite stock bikes ever. Suspension was for some reason better than any KTM for me and it was PDS which I dont usually care for. Was a fun bike to ride. Felt fast on it although don't think it made me faster. The great stock suspension surprised me.

(thanks to Jeff Tasky for the bike demo)

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I realize rear suspension does have an effect on the front, but the forks in question are similar if not the same and seem to have the same quirks. That said, my 650 had great stock suspension, much better than the KM PDS.
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I've got a 2014 250XC. 4CS forks. I was a little reluctant to pull the trigger because many, many people have had problems getting these dialed in. Additionally, Kreft is supposed to do great work -- but I didn't want to spend $1000 for my forks -- its just way to expensive for me. Not sure what the bill would be on a ZipTy job, but I am sort of opposed to spending $7k on a bike and another $1000 to get the forks to work.

As luck would have it, I ride with the guy who owns the local shop and swung a leg over his 2014 350XC-F [with the same forks]. His forks worked really well. He had his guys at his shop revalve them and re-spring them. So I pulled the trigger.

I rode the bike for a couple hundred miles stock [with springs for my weight]. The were pretty harsh. A fair bit of deflection as you push 2nd and 3rd gear type stuff. Into the shop for a revalve. MUCH BETTER. They are still firm -- some of the little stuff makes its way up the bars a bit. Not as butter smooth as the open chambers. Where the 4CS are way better is when the pace picks up -- they just track better and hold a line better. Good enough for me.
 
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