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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Cheep handlebar riser / anti vibration.

N

New511Guy

Husqvarna
A Class
First attempt at adding pics so....

Picked up:
Longer bolts.
2 solid rubber "bumpers"
4 (but only used 2) "brass lamp repair washers" (optional).

Raised handlebars a little over an inch.
Reduced vibration by 50% and that high-frequency buzzing by more than that.

Total cost: $12 and change.
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Thats pretty cool man. Will be interesting to see if it is more prone to twisting and also bending the bolts.
 
That will probably work AOK until you get to treating them roughly ... Such as logging air-time and maybe coming down a little short or something like that.

You might need to watch them about getting loose also as that rubber compresses.. You might even have to replace the rubber from time to time if any issues crop up.
 
I like the idea for cutting down on vibration. I might have to try that with something like about 1/4" of rubber.
 
Ya, I probably should put a few more hours on it before starting a post showing off my sensational mechanical imagination and engineering prowess. No problems yet, but.... it's early.

So for those new to the site or who've never met me...

WARNING! "Don't Ever Do Anything I Do." Except for the eyebrows on the number plate thing.
 
I might want to try this. Where did you get the rubber bumpers, home depot? What aisle?
 
Ace hardware. Went on a long, hard ride yesterday that included a fall on a double black diamond hill climb at Hollister (Cali). No movement of the bars; no problems. HOWEVER, I still don't recommend it! Although, it may be a starting point for a better design.
 
New511Guy said:
Ace hardware. Went on a long, hard ride yesterday that included a fall on a double black diamond hill climb at Hollister (Cali). No movement of the bars; no problems. HOWEVER, I still don't recommend it! Although, it may be a starting point for a better design.
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ACE also has some nylon (hard) spacers that will take the bolt if you drive it in with a mallot. I believe they are 20mm high. I used them over the metal caps (for the rubbers) for months before I realized I like the stock position better.
 
Bar risers are a bad idea, they change the geometry and dynamics of the bike!
If you want to reduce vibrations fit a set of bar end weights like on road - sports bikes. Works magic and also stops the cookie cutter in the gut.
 
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