• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

250-500cc English mag comparison Husky, KTM, GasGas.

Good discussion. :thumbsup: I have both 50mm shivers and KYB. I like them both. I do think I like the Zokes better though. I ride three sets regularly. Two WR125's and a 08 TXC250. Love them all for trail work. Mine has been revalved and the other two have fancy springs in them. All are VERY good. The 2010 TXC250 has the KYB. All stock, 800 some miles. Work very well. Controled, stiff without being harsh, can be pushed hard and not get floppy. That said the Zokes seem to disapear trail trash better and still remain controlled. They actually do feel bigger in dia than the KYB to me. Seem to hold a line slightly better. KYB is a little more nervous over embedded rock etc. Jakes has his working really nice and plush, little soft for me... whipped butter. Shanes on his 09 WR125 work very well. My revalved ones on my WR125 is not as plush but the control is crazy. Charge into anything and blast out. Well OK 125 blast. :D Fun.

All good forks but i have to say overall I prefer the Zokes. Will have the KYB's valved and report. That bike needs respringed for me as well.
 
Torques recommended by Les (LTR) on my 08 TE 510- Upper clamp-16 ft/lb, Lower clamp-12 ft/lb. Melted Butter!
 
You could probably get the Zokes as good as the KYB´s if you revalve, but i don´t think the bikes they test are revalved. The KYB is probably better from the factory then, because all the tests i read says the KYB is an improvement. What do i know!:excuseme:
 
PC.;77110 said:
What torque value did you set them at?
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Drew said to go 11 ft/lb, PC. I went 12,...mainly 'cause I'm about half OCD. :D
You can snug the top ones up to service manual specs, and that won't hurt a thing.

I kinda stepped in it with that "butter" reference huh?........:lol:
 
Thanks!

I'll have to re torque mine and see if I cant get some 'butter' action out of them :smirk:

I really have no complaints as is, but its hard to pass on an a potentially free upgrade.
 
PC.;77301 said:
Thanks!

I'll have to re torque mine and see if I cant get some 'butter' action out of them :smirk:

I really have no complaints as is, but its hard to pass on an a potentially free upgrade.
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Well, it can't hurt to try it,...but if you don't have any complaints with 'em "as is",...then I can just about guaran-damn-tee you they ain't clamp bound. :D
 
That upper tube is relatively thin walled aluminum, and while it's not flimsy by any means, it will distort in an over torqued pinch clamp enough to hinder the passage of the bushing on the lower.

This is what Drew told me about my Marzocchi Shivers,....I don't know if your Kayabas are as prone to this or not Johnny.
I've never had anyone tell me this about the WPs on my KTMs though, or I'd have known not to bind my Zokes.
 
Fork tubes are thin, but it's not related to any brand in particular. It can happen with any fork of you're not careful.
 
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