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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Bent linkage!

N

NWRider

Husqvarna
AA Class
When they went to the new frame on the 125 I knew the linkage looked vulnerable. I was putting a new shock spring on tonight and this is what I found.

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I hope I just got unlucky and this will not be a reoccurring problem.
 
Yes, it does. When it came out I was very impressed that someone had finally broke out of the under the swingarm box.
 
Where is the pic? I noticed where my lower shock mount had taken a small(?) hit and started to oval the bearing. Not enough to be replaced but about .3 mm out of round.
 
delta link honda...pooopooo! bent bolts galore. then they issued a counter-measure. honda used to really be on with them countermeasures and free upgrades.

90 YZ 250 etc...smacked main long link galore...busted one...

stuff happens.
 
NWRider said:
When they went to the new frame on the 125 I knew the linkage looked vulnerable. I was putting a new shock spring on tonight and this is what I found.

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I hope I just got unlucky and this will not be a reoccurring problem.
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Its hard to tell from this angle but only a slight nic can be seen at that bent point... Do you think this was a hit on the arm that bent it and not just a bend from bottoming the shock from jumping or some there type of stress other than a direct hit?

Yep moving the bearings and stuff to the top looks good to me also ... I'm seeing lots of weird linkage setups on all the old bikes here but just ~one that protected the linkage towards the top of the SA as on the new Huskies...
 
It definitly hit something. I did not show a picture of the bottom but it looks like a major rock impact.

The new on top linkage does look good. But even the old linkage the 2 strokes had before 09 sure was a lot better protected.
 
i've bent a link not getting the scoot up on the stand all the way and thumping it down on one bar on the edge of my alum stand. funny thing is i was hucking it up there to service said link bearings....
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Just curious what a new linckage arm costs? I have the same setup, ride over lots of logs, rocks, train tracks etc. where I bottom out and will no-doubt be replacing mine too somewhere down the road.
 
I got a new take off from Bills from a parted out CR125 so it was a little less then full price.

When I looked it up at Halls it was $88.
 
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