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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Why is my front rim prone to dents?

XLEnduroMan

XLEnduroMan

Heroes Ride Huskys. The others follow.
My TE 510 is less then a month old and I already have two noticeable dents in the stock front rim. :banghead: The first one I felt but the new one today I don't recall the incident. I have the front tire at the recommended 15 lbs. This must be to soft? I wonder if I got a defective rim because this is ridiculous. I have ridden these same places real hard on my DRZ and it's rim hold their own. The Husky rocks, but the front rim seems to be butter. :banghead:

Feel free to tell me what you think. I can take it. :eek:
 
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I never run more than 12 in the front, but different terrain I am sure...
Seriously- the Husky soaks up everything that would have deflected the DRZ- your hitting stuff you don't even know your hitting.
 
It's made by Excel not Husky. What the poster above said sounds spot on...just htting more stuff than you realize and the Husky suspension soaks it up.
 
Are the spokes tight? Are you sure your tire gauge is right?
Seems like if the suspension is more compliant that would lead to less wheel impact and damage. Fork stiction or stiffness would seem more likely to me. Just my .02.
 
My front tire does spend alot of time in the air. :bonk: Like last night leaving a favorite Mexican food place after the ride. I zipped out across the lanes to get in front of traffic. I found myself hanging a 4th gear throttle wheelie through the intersection in front of all to see. :eek: I know better, it all just happened so fast. :busted:

Anyways, I do pay respect to the rocky area's and dodge them the best I can. I feel pretty comfortable with the tire guage, and I just tighted all the spokes the ride before this one. The front had it's first dent doctored and spoke tightened by HRT a couple or rides ago. Looks like I will be paying him another visit.

The bike is pretty deceptive. It can go putt putt or it can hit speeds that will make some cry. This bike is awesome.:thumbsup: I guess I will pay HRT another visit and then get a set of red rims from Hall's. :thumbsup:
 
I wonder if the 510 rims are the same ones that come on the 610? I know I've done some things that I was sure were rim flattening events and they have come come through perfectly. I hit a 10" high square edge at around 60, a situation that would almost gaurantee a major flat spot on most rims but it did no discernable damage.:confused:
 
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