• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 2017 TX300 Spring Rate Chart +

I kinda hope someone comes up with a Air pressure setting to match the rear spring rates, for mathematical chassis balance like they do on the spring bikes. It helps at least get you very close, to work with for your own personal setting.
 
I kinda hope someone comes up with a Air pressure setting to match the rear spring rates, for mathematical chassis balance like they do on the spring bikes. It helps at least get you very close, to work with for your own personal setting.
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The RaceTech calculator does give you a recommend fork air pressure. How accurate it is I don't know.
 
the book/chart stated 3 psi increments so i kind of assume add 3 for each rate. ex. i have a one rate heavier spring order for my heft so I will add 3 psi to the fork once my spring is on.
 
So I tried the race tech calculator based on my age, weight (190lbs no gear) and riding style and it recommended 142PSI, which is 3lbs more than stock. I also have 1 stiffer size shock spring, so this seems in line with the 3lb increment recommendation.
 
I'm 210lbs and it spec'd 156psi for me. I'm two rates up on the rear to a 48N/mm as per the manual, which is also what Race Tech recommended. So the 3psi increment doesn't hold true for Race Tech in all circumstances..
 
sthomps said:
I'm 210lbs and it spec'd 156psi for me. I'm two rates up on the rear to a 48N/mm as per the manual, which is also what Race Tech recommended. So the 3psi increment doesn't hold true for Race Tech in all circumstances..
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I played with it and it varies by age, weight and rider class. So if you are heavier, younger and an A rider, it was much different.
 
I'm actually running about 134psi and I'm 220 lbs without gear. I think for slow technical single track it's just too harsh at the 139psi or higher.
 
Fact is we all have different needs and feel along with skill levels that will dictate what each of us wants or likes.
I've ridden pros bikes that were so stiff they are unridable for me and ridden other pros bikes that were plush just the way I like it.
 
I just check my sag now that the bike has close to ten hours on it. With my rider sag at 105mm, the static sag is a 25mm, so my spring is a little too soft. I'm 220 without gear and the spring on there is 4.8kg/mm. To get that extra 10mm of static (the manual specs 35mm static), do you think I should go to a 4.9 or 5.0?
 
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