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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

06 SMR 510 Suspension

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mikedbike2002

Husqvarna
B Class
I used to ride a DRZ400SM & it handled fantasticaly in the turns like it was glued down! I got my 2006 SMR510 & after about 6 months still can't get anywhere as solid in the turns as the DRZ. It wants to wallow especially on technical tight stuff. I have added preload,went to 10wt oil,adjust the other stuff & in sweepers it's okay but the tight stuff----ICKY! My Husky is lighter then the DRZ & more power so it's much faster but not in the tight stuff! Any suggestions before I sell it & get another DRZ?
 
Wow! Wish I could give insight. I've found the DRZ to be so soft it wallowed on every conrner I spun it thru.
I'd check the rear shock, those Sachs had diaphragm failures in the beginning and LT Racing makes a great upgrade.
That's about all I could suggest. Maybe lower the triple? Helps with turn in.

Edit; rereading your post, I think you may have too much preload which is preventing suspension action.
Here's hoping other smart riders chime in.... J.R.??? ;)
 
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