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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Suspension setting suggestions

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I'm recently back in the dirt after a 10 or so year hiatus and I picked up a 2008 TE250 that has only 650 miles on it.. The powerup kit was done before I got it and I'm planning on riding a dual sport event (almost all off road) in a couple weeks..

I'm 250 pounds and I know the trail will be littered with logs.. Most under 12"..

My question is some starting points to aid setting the bike up for log crossing.. I used to be pretty good at log crossing at speed and had my old KDX200 set up well for crossing.. A slight loft of the front end, skip over and a quick throttle chop, the back end absorbing the brunt of the log size without the seat kicking me in the butt..

Any suggestions? It's been a long time and I don't remember squat on what I did with the KDX, as that was 1999.. Sag settings?? Increase preload?? Decrease rebound??

Any help would be great!! :)
 
Well, no replies.. :(

My bike didn't come with a manual and I have no idea which dial is which.. Can anyone post a photo of the Sach's shock dials and which one is rebound and which one's compression?
 
Sachs rebound is on the bottom the compression is up top with two dials, the big red is low speed and the small one in center of big red is high speed.
 
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you need correct springs for your weight first. I'd give a good Husky suspension shop a ring, or use my guy as he is excellent. Corey of ProTuneSuspension at 740-988-6673. Tell him Jim from NJ referred you.

He is a great contributor at ktmtalk and has done incredible stuff to even a set is 1999 WR125 legs for me.
 
The manual issue wasn't that I couldn't find it, but I couldn't find one that the PDF wasn't corrupt.. I the two locations I'd found both had corruption issues and the manual would only download 1/4 of the way, or it would be without photos. I tried this with 4 different computers at 3 different locations and aways came up with the same issues. I emailed both locations and I was finally able to download the Service manual this week. With that, I was able to print off the sheets I needed..

I finally got a chance to get the bike out for the first time yesterday.. I found the previous owner had done already done my work for me, as the compression and rebound were both backed off to keep the rear end soft enough while log crossing.

This winter I'll send the shock off for some tuning to my weight. I was mostly interested in getting the suspension in the ball park for an upcoming local dual sport ride. The ride is littered with logs and I wanted to get it so I wouldn't be fighting the bike with every log crossing.

Other than a couple rides around the block, I hadn't had it out until yesterday. It was educational to say the least.. I'm pretty happy with the bike so far, and I'm much happier with it than I was hoping, as my last 4 stroke bike left me left than impressed.. It was a 97' XR400 and between being grumpy to start and not a lot of low end grunt, I was concerned that lofting the front end on this 250 would be work.. Actually I was very happy, and as long as the engine's spinning faster than idle the front end comes up nicely. I've got one more chance to get a little practice in before the dual sport and I'm already looking forward to it!

Thanks for the info and advice!! :thumbsup:
 
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