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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Converting two bikes to SMR

flyingbob

flyingbob

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Putting a 2012 CR125 and a 2001 WR360 on the road. The 2012 is awesome! The 360 is close to ready, but the 45 Zokes have me wondering. Would newer 50 closed chamber forks be a good move?
 
The 45 marzocchi forks are spindly and with a larger front brake and the forces of supermoto is not going to be optomal.

I would try to find the 50mm forks with triples, or I am having very very good luck with my stock 48 KYB forks on my 2014 te511. I cut the springs to lower and stiffen it up, re-used the stock rear spring and just had the shock shortened.

The clickers are maxed on comp. and rebound, but tire wear is PERFECT PERFECT! Bike sticks like glue, my only current issue is sorting the geometry. I think the front end need to go down an additional .5" and or the rear raised back up to get the bike leaned forward more. Otherwise lower offset triple clamps would help (I have 14mm husky special parts clamps). I think 11-12mm would be much better.

Good luck I looked at doing my cr125 but realized the chassis is just too spindly for it. Tiny forks/axle/swingarm, shock is tiny bore etc etc.
 
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