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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Suspension upgrades

tropicoz

tropicoz

Husqvarna
C Class
After my fiasco with the front forks, I decided to send them off to David at Fast Bikes. I'm having them revalved and rebuilt with the compression adjusters so hopefully no more wallowing, weeble wobble rides. Can't wait to get them back! My new tank is here as well, so by the end of next week I should have a "new" bike again. Or at least one that'll not leak and handle well!!!
 
tropicoz said:
After my fiasco with the front forks, I decided to send them off to David at Fast Bikes. I'm having them revalved and rebuilt with the compression adjusters so hopefully no more wallowing, weeble wobble rides. Can't wait to get them back! My new tank is here as well, so by the end of next week I should have a "new" bike again. Or at least one that'll not leak and handle well!!!
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It will be a completely different bike...I had mine done a couple of years ago too.

Did you tell your suspension tuner to take into account the extra 20kg of fuel over the front forks?

When I got mine back it seemed too hard but it was because everything was new and stiff. After a couple of rides it bedded in nicely.

I did a 6 hour enduro in sand on the first ride and it nearly killed me!!!

When you get it back, it's really important to use your clickers all the time so you get a feel for how much they change the dynamics. Sometimes I change my clicker settings 2 or 3 times a ride.

Enjoy mate and let us know what you think.

Stu
 
Is this the fast Bikes in Michigan?? I need to figure out where to send my fork off too. Let me know what you think of their work. THanks.
 
icebergstu said:
It will be a completely different bike...I had mine done a couple of years ago too.

Did you tell your suspension tuner to take into account the extra 20kg of fuel over the front forks?

When I got mine back it seemed too hard but it was because everything was new and stiff. After a couple of rides it bedded in nicely.
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I'm definitely no stranger to suspension setup, but these Marzocchi's are so primitive in their adjustability I couldn't get them to work with the rear shock no matter what. The lack of compression damping is a huge deficit if you do any kind of spirited riding.
I went with Fast Bike Industries in NC. His track record with Sumo's is excellent and apparently he can get these Marzocchi's working very well without going to a completely new cartridge. Well see. They're due to be here in the next few days so all I need is a dry day!!
 
tropicoz said:
I'm definitely no stranger to suspension setup, but these Marzocchi's are so primitive in their adjustability I couldn't get them to work with the rear shock no matter what. The lack of compression damping is a huge deficit if you do any kind of spirited riding.
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I agree. Can't believe they even allowed them to roll off the shelf without comp clickers.

Might as well buy a klx 450...hehehe
 
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