• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 AER fork discussion

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I've been trying to read up on the forks. Really like the idea just because it's cool to have the latest and greatest for once. At the same time while it's the latest, it may not be the greatest lol. Some have mentioned seeing air forks collapse on other brands. I've attached an article and would like the pros here to explain why these statements are wrong or ktms design sucks like everyone elses. Figured 4cs have quite a few dedicated threads so time for some AER action :)

http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/2016/02/article/2016-wp-aer-48-air-fork-first-impression/

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7602 racing already has beer coozies, maybe fork coozies would sell lol.

Only real issue with nitrogen would be test and tune. It comes with an air pump and that kind of stuff is done at the track. I've thought the same thing though especially someone like me that is normally a set it and forget it kind of person.
 
robertaccio said:
my question would be about using "air" (as a compund) which has the tendency to expand with heat, would it not be best to use an inert gas like nitrogen that has low re-activity to heat as well as low impact on seal oxidation and degradation?
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Like LOM mentioned I would guess it is a more user friendly option. Air vs Nitrogen. Air is free and everywhere. Nitrogen not so much.

I can't remember where I read it. Was most likely a forum somewhere. There was a rider from one of the Scandanavian countries that had his AER fork collapse during some cold weather riding. Not sure if it was a one off failure, or a possible large scale issue.
 
Read in one of mags that they had an issue to correct before models hit showroom floors of loosing pressure.
 
robertaccio said:
my question would be about using "air" (as a compund) which has the tendency to expand with heat, would it not be best to use an inert gas like nitrogen that has low re-activity to heat as well as low impact on seal oxidation and degradation?
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Remember the ideal gas law pv=nrt t being the temperature. It is the water or water vapor that makes air less than ideal and forces partial pressure of water as a function of temperature to be inserted into computations. This is basically why race cars and likely road race bikes use nitrogen in the tires. The inert part will have less effect on the seals at least I would think so.
 
I must say, this is the first bike I have had the air forks on and they feel like the best so far. ..
 
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