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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

New Suspension '87 WR430?

racemx904 said:
These people who say its a waste are probably trying to sell you the late model forks.... I have the 88 CR430 forks and they have good action and dont flex.... no adjustibility but you dont really need that anyhow....
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it is all opinion, but those opinions were not those trying to sell me anything. i already own a set of the wp forks of the red clicker variety and a few sets of the newer italian variety. i was going to have a front end rebuilt and valved for me, it was just a question of which to go with so i feel it was the tuners honest opinion.
 
justintendo said:
im pretty happy with the original 87-88 forks, but its imperative to add some spring stiffness in them according to your weight and run about 500cc of atf. at least this works very well for me and is very plush is the woods and will handle most faster riding without any problems...
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justintendo, plush in the woods and able to handle faster riding is good for me. Good guidance.
Suggestions on how to get the correct spring stiffness?
When I pulled my 87 forks apart the previous owner had put in plastic pipe spacers and progressive springs. Seems like using the correct spring rate would be best.
 
aluminum spacers are oe on the xc bikes, at first i cut 1.5" off and replaced that 1.5" with pvc in addition to the aluminum spacers. after that i got the correct springs. it was long ago, i was just out of trade school, lol. i bet if you called up drew he could hook you up! perhaps even race tech.
dont get me wrong, the newer forks revalved and resprung could of course work better but i am surprised the old ones have staved off the desire for me to swap them.
 
Thanks.
I was looking at the RaceTech site. They're on my coast. Looks like they have the goods needed.
I've heard too from other Husky riders that the old forks were and are pretty good. I haven't had any problems, but it would be nice to set them up better.
Thanks.
 
my one gripe is the small rotor. the 87-88 bikes have the great "modern" brembo caliper and i really like the way the master feels, very progressive but strong if you clamp it. the newer brembo setups seem touchy but very strong.
i heard about racetechs spring chart being off, but not sure in this app. wish i would have wrote down or remembered what spring rate i have in there..
 
justintendo said:
my one gripe is the small rotor. the 87-88 bikes have the great "modern" brembo caliper and i really like the way the master feels, very progressive but strong if you clamp it. the newer brembo setups seem touchy but very strong.
i heard about racetechs spring chart being off, but not sure in this app. wish i would have wrote down or remembered what spring rate i have in there..
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No complaints about the front brake. I ride in steep terrain with plenty of braking... steep downhills and such. The new brakes are not as progressive as I'd like, too sensitive, lack feel. Definitely strong though. I have seen comments on using the RaceTech components which should help with adjustments for rider, etc.
 
everfree said:
No complaints about the front brake. I ride in steep terrain with plenty of braking... steep downhills and such. The new brakes are not as progressive as I'd like, too sensitive, lack feel. Definitely strong though. I have seen comments on using the RaceTech components which should help with adjustments for rider, etc.
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totally agree about the brakes. i actually retrofitted my 95 with the earlier brembo master and ss braid line. much better! the 95 had a plastic line:(
 
racemx904 said:
Ron Bishop Motorcycles..... My uncle left behind a ton of parts when he passed... I know they are trying to sell the stuff... 90% from the 80s.... 740-747-1360 talk to Andrew or Bradley... Great guys.... they have the stuff spread around their garage.... lol
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FYI,
Andrew called me back today... he checked, and he didn't have any of the late 80's CR - WP forks left.
Sounded like he had regular WR Husky made forks left.
Worth a try. Guess I'll stick with my Husky forks and tune them up better.
Thanks.
 
justintendo said:
i guess something that is important....
what kind of riding are you doing? if you are going near an mx track then going the italian oem forks will be a smart move. i would start to maybe question the bike as i really think these models shine in the woods/enduro/desert compared to a track at this point
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I am doing exclusively trail riding, lots of tight trails, tight turns, poppin' over logs, woods riding basically, so not super hi speed, or high air, but very active, and i need to get that front end down into the turns, etc...
 
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