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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
to me, the ignition choice makes a bigger difference than the transmission. internal vs external
CR - I believe primary ratio is the same on the 430 but different than the 250s. It has been mentioned that using 250 primary gearing in the 430 will spin the engine over faster when kick starting
you would think that to be true but it has not been my experience. the steahly weight i added to my 360 sure didnt weigh much but had an effect on the bike. sometimes its the little things i guessTo me on a 430 with a 10 pound crankshaft assembly I can't see how changing out between origional equipment ignitions would make much of a difference in inertia for the rotating mass.
For the question in post 1 though the ignition would make the only noticable difference the way I see things.
The four speed 500 cr transmission when I did the math for the ratios came out to essentially the six speed without first and sixth. One of my friends who had that bike, and entered events on it "back in the day" gave that transmission credit for making him a better rider.
It makes a big difference swapping from external rotor (XC and WR) to internal rotor (CR). The difference cannot be calculated simply by weight, but also must consider axial distance from centerline of crank. An ounce on the outside diameter of the external rotor has an exponential amount more inertia than an ounce closer to the crank centerline. High school physics: Inertia (momentum) = mass x velocityTo me on a 430 with a 10 pound crankshaft assembly I can't see how changing out between origional equipment ignitions would make much of a difference in inertia for the rotating mass.
It only has what he is asking for for 85-88