• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Bens 2017 TE 300

robertaccio said:
interesting how light the shock springs are, certainly means lots of changes to linkage rates and chassis dimensional arrangement.
the forks seem very standard in the across the board rates among the other manufacturers, nothing out of the ordinary.
OEM calls out deep race sag of 110mm but very standard static of 35mm. thanks again for posting, remember the OEM does mega testing to mathematically get the chassis balance dialed in, work to match the balance they call out. and most of all have fun!!!
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I have really interesting news on the spring rates on the shock. I also have a 2017 TE 300 and I went to Factory Connection, which is about a mile away. I weigh about 220 with full gear on and I was having serious handling issues with the stock spring. We put a 5.2 on and it still sagged way too much, even when I was just in street clothes. Jake at FC thought the spring was mislabeled and measured it and the stock spring. He found that the stock spring had a higher spring rate that was marked. He thinks that the linkage geometry creates a need for a higher spring rate. We ended up putting a 5.5 on at the end of the day. The moral of the story here, is to go up a step on your spring rate on these bikes.
 
Jed Smart said:
I have really interesting news on the spring rates on the shock. I also have a 2017 TE 300 and I went to Factory Connection, which is about a mile away. I weigh about 220 with full gear on and I was having serious handling issues with the stock spring. We put a 5.2 on and it still sagged way too much, even when I was just in street clothes. Jake at FC thought the spring was mislabeled and measured it and the stock spring. He found that the stock spring had a higher spring rate that was marked. He thinks that the linkage geometry creates a need for a higher spring rate. We ended up putting a 5.5 on at the end of the day. The moral of the story here, is to go up a step on your spring rate on these bikes.
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It pays to get your suspension checked out setup for your riding.

I've been really happy with suspension so far.
I have an enduro race with an endurocross section in it next week so we'll see how it copes
 
Hey - thats sexy. I have the blue ones (hit a tree, not my most proud moment) on order - for the past month. Where did you get yours - and how so fast?
 
Do you have a part number on the 5.5 spring? The parts finders I've looked at stop at the 5.2 spring? Actually the shock springs part numbers look kinda confused and out of order. Looks like data entry issues.
 
Do the new 17s have a downloaded-able parts PDF. It sure was nice to have that on my phone with the ability to check out the parts fiche while working on the bike. In the garage or out at the track in the boonies.
 
Beta has all that pdf stuff on its web site to download free of charge. Special Kit installation guides and fork/shock manuals.
 
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