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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

45mm fork issue resolved. Finally!

420skirider

Husqvarna
A Class
Well I got my forks back with the .42kg springs and they are waaay better. Had a great trail ride last Sunday and the difference is night and day. Now the forks absorb the chop and roots without deflecting all over the place and my hands don't go numb. I was concerned that they might be too soft in the fast whoops but that is not the case. It also feels like the bike handles better overall in all types of terrain.
With the lighter fork springs and the re-valve, it feels like a different bike. Much less tiring to ride and I still have the use of my hands after a ride.
Now I'm jonesing for the next race.
 
420skirider;29626 said:
Well I got my forks back with the .42kg springs and they are waaay better. Had a great trail ride last Sunday and the difference is night and day. Now the forks absorb the chop and roots without deflecting all over the place and my hands don't go numb. I was concerned that they might be too soft in the fast whoops but that is not the case. It also feels like the bike handles better overall in all types of terrain.
With the lighter fork springs and the re-valve, it feels like a different bike. Much less tiring to ride and I still have the use of my hands after a ride.
Now I'm jonesing for the next race.

Glad to hear it, 420skirider! Suspension is everything, in my opinion, and it's the first thing a rider should spend his money on. You can have the fastest blinged-out bike out there, but if you can't keep the wheels on the ground it isn't going to do you any good.

Who did your re-valve?



WoodsChick
 
WER did my suspension mods. Drew's a great guy and is super to deal with. He really worked with me to make sure I was happy with the suspension.
 
How much do you weigh? How fast are you? I assume you are riding tight 1st and 2nd gear single track.
 
420skirider;29849 said:
180lb. C-rider for now. Varying terrain- tight single track, 4th gear whoops, rocks/roots,etc. Eastern Pa/ NJ area.


Ok, this makes sense to me. I'm finding my stock setup pretty decent. Not perfect, but livable. I'm 185lb and a slow A rider. We have the same type of terrain. My forks work fine in the slow choppy stuff. They can blow through the stroke in faster G outs or whoops. But that doesn't happen much.

I'm coming off of a Honda which has excellent suspension and expected the worst from my Husky. I can't fault the rear at all and front works well enough for me.
 
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