• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    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!

How low can it go? TE449

JRW

JRW

Husqvarna
AA Class
How much can you shorten the shock and forks, and not ruin the bike's handling? How much will it take out of the seat height? I've seen threads talking about it, but none with this info.

Thanks
 
I have cut my seat down to next to nothing in the muddle lower hump. I am 5' 6" and it was enough with the addition of shoving up the the forks in the clamps to lower the front. I rode the bike daily for 2 months like that.

THEN, I put 17" wheels and lowered the forks and shock 1.5" which was way way too short. I need to now raise the bike up in the rear 1" to make it handle right.

I would do geometry of the bike very very last. It is really tough even for a suspension professional to get it right. They are just guessing....unless they own a 511 themselves and have ridden/played with it.
 
Jay at Hall's lowered mine 1.5, and it is awsome. It still handles jumps and whoops fine, and is perfect in the
woods and road.
 
I'm reading it as seat height. 1.5 would be great if it wouldn't be cost prohibitive. Could even try a lower seat for more. :)
 
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