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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE450 Shock Setup

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trinityracing

Husqvarna
C Class
I own a 2008 TE450 and I plan on having the front and rear suspension revalved. It's great in the trails but just does not do what I want it to do in the rough bumps and soft sand.

My concern is the rear spring. I don't know if I need stiffer or not. I weigh 210lbs without gear. Is the stock spring suficent for my weight or do I need to go stiffer? Has anyone done their suspension and had luck with the results? Please let me know what mods or changes you made.

Thanks!
 
I am close to your weight and went with a 6.0 rear spring. I dont have the bottoming issues I had with the stock 5.6 spring now.
 
I ride east coast stuff and had a '08 TE 450. Les at LT racing did my work and I ran 5.6 but it was a tad soft. I am 200lbs.
 
Dave at ProMotion has mine now. He adjusted the sag before I took it out and said the stocker is marginal for me. I'm 192 in street clothes so I would guess it would be too soft for you.
 
That's funnny because there is another post on here where the poster says the forks are set up for a 230lb rider. Yet the rear spring is too soft?

Tempus did you convert it to a super motard? I am aware of what promotion is and they run street bikes.
 
trinityracing;75287 said:
That's funnny because there is another post on here where the poster says the forks are set up for a 230lb rider. Yet the rear spring is too soft?

Tempus did you convert it to a super motard? I am aware of what promotion is and they run street bikes.
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Nope. No motard. The rear was cranked down almost all the way stiff. 108mm race sag and 15mm free sag.
He said it was borderline.

If you want, you can measure yourself to see if you need a heavier spring.

http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-17282.html

ProMotion here in Vancouver is mostly dirt. I'll post what I end up with when he's done.
 
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