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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC 17 TE 150

Ha, I was gonna ask if it was still muddy in geneseo but the picture answered my question. I'm running a ve33 rear and a 216aa fatty front on the 300. Fall in the Midwest is sloppy indeed
 
dartyppyt said:
You will like the low end and you will like the top end. Just go with like the 14 front motocross fender and motocross plate.

I'm still testing mine. First, throw those Dunlop AT 81 tires in trash can! Rear doesn't bite and you will skid down hills, you engine will not brake to help stop momentum, and braking is bad with them. The front bites good in dry stuff. As soon as you hit mud or wet glazed stuff. Front is like on sheet ice. Rear was rounded off at 4 hours and now front is rounded off at 6 hours. Only tire I could find local was rear Bridgestone X30 Battlecross. It's just a crutch to get different rear. It hooked up and braked well. I was kinda impressed. Prob go 216 AA fatty golden cause like that tire.
I'm going to go up prob one size springs in front. But valving in front and rear is perfect.
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Is there tubliss system, mousse in these or just the standard tube? I ride alot of gnarly rocks & roots and like running a lower pressure so I need something other than the tube. Ive read that the stock tires suck, no biggie ill wear em out while I break her in. Im pretty light, about 135-140 naked, about 5'10", I was suprised to sit on it felt like the seat height was higher than the 250 im on now. I just need to ride it and see where im at sag wise and what not, i do enjoy a plusher ride but it seems the stock suspension is perfect for someone a little heavier (more average) weight.
 
hakkalugi said:
Is there tubliss system, mousse in these or just the standard tube? I ride alot of gnarly rocks & roots and like running a lower pressure so I need something other than the tube. Ive read that the stock tires suck, no biggie ill wear em out while I break her in. Im pretty light, about 135-140 naked, about 5'10", I was suprised to sit on it felt like the seat height was higher than the 250 im on now. I just need to ride it and see where im at sag wise and what not, i do enjoy a plusher ride but it seems the stock suspension is perfect for someone a little heavier (more average) weight.
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It's tubes.

With your weight! You better work on a good grip!
 
dartyppyt said:
It's tubes.

With your weight! You better work on a good grip!
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No biggie & ahaha thats what I wanted to hear! First bike was a YZ450, then the 250 2t, im slowly realizing bigger isnt always better. Coming from a mountain bike background I was looking for something lighter & more nimble, originally the 125 caught my eye then i stumbled upon this. I think it is exactly what im looking for.
 
Thats funny you say that because I noticed my front is a bit squeaky too! I dont mind, actually I kinda like to hear it for some reason.
 
I always thought brake squeal is from uneven pad pressure, causing uneven rotor wear and glazing. Here's a quote from somewhere: "Most squealing is caused by harmonic vibration. The vibration can be caused by something as bad as a warped rotor or simple as greasy fingerprints on the rotor or pads. Even soap residue from washing will cause this. What happens is as the brake pads make contact the warp, hot spot, dirt, grease,soap etc- quickly grabs or shifts the pads in the caliper and the rub (much like drawing a bow across a violin string) creates a squeal."

Since I spray so much silicone and armor all I regularly spray the rotorss down with electronics cleaner and wipe with a pair of my ex's fav panties. I'm not sure if it helps, but i sure enjoy it ::D:
At least every tire change I clean brakes thoroughly, 600g wet or dry on the rotor and pad, waterproof grease on the pins :thumbsup: I like EBC sintered on the rear and carbonX on the front, they're MXS sintered kit comes with new pins too. :cheers:
 
dartyppyt said:
I do wipe my rotors off after bike is clean and shot with WD 40, in case some got on them.
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Surely you jest.

Mine squealed, so I roughed up the pads with some 80 grit and it went away. Back (many years ago) doing my automotive apprenticeship, that's what we would do when we had a set of squealy brakes in the shop. If they were really bad we'd rough up the rotor as well.
 
Right, brake pads and shoes get glazed from hi temps. 400 or 600 grit works fine on bikes and doesn't remove too much material. Used to do it before every race on the old drum brakes :oldman:
 
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