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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2014 TE300 suspension word/info (Vinduro Spec verified)

robertaccio

Husqvarna
Pro Class
FYI post.
I weight 210 with no gear
.51 fork springs installed
6.1 shock spring installed

(these numbers match the Race Tech chart fairly close, we did not use that chart these are numbers we came up with, and voila they match the Race Tech spec)

My numbers fall nicely right into the Dwight Rudder/Vinduro % of travel balance spec.

we have fairly "heavy springs--they sound quite heavy, but with proper dampening control they are working very well to keep the travel in its proper place. (Dwight Check in on this if you dont mind)

35mm static rear with 100mm race sag with 5mm spring preload
i forgot the fork nimbers off hand but they are close to this
@45mm static sag @ 75mm race sag with zero spring preload.
My 4CS forks were torn apart and thoroughly tested and evaluated by Suspension101/Smart Performance, adjustments were made to get these forks to get through the travel without hydro lock harshness especially for HSC hits, this was an immediate discovery in the 4CS forks mid stroke lock up.
So far I think George and Dave got it very very close to what I want and like. We started with 19C and 19R I made some more changes and will try again (20C- 15R)
We are going to add 10cc oil per leg for bottoming resistance, I slammed hard bottom a few times last weekend on LSC very steep rock drop downhills (shocked the wrists).

Shock is OEM with the 6.1 spring HSC- 2 (open to eat sharp rock hits), and I need to look at my book for the other settings I forget them off hand, I think my REB is like 4-5 clicks slower to make up for the heavier spring.
 
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