• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Factory fork heght in clamps 12 TXC 310

need2boat

need2boat

Husqvarna
AA Class
Bought the bike second hand and the PO had them set to 10mm but I've found 5mm works better for me in the south NJ sand. I looked though the manual and couldn't find any factory guidelines. I understand the Pos/cons to raising and lower them just wasn't sure of the range.

Also interested in what others are running.
 
My 13 TE came with top clamp at 3rd ring from top of tube or 18mm or so. Never moved it as was not an issue when initially road tested at speed and worked well in the tight stuff. I don't ride sand fast but figure for others it can be tailored to slow steering as needed. I tend to adapt to whatever I run anyway. Being 165lbs. also only adjusted compression back one click from stock on the fork. I figure my weight is target for most bikes.
 
OK, good info. I was thinking stock was at the first line (from top) around 5mm. I'm about 170 without my gear on.
 
5 mm is good for sand with stock springs.

The older Husky's liked the front end lower..like 20mm even but not the newer bikes.

@ 170 you should consider softer fork springs.

Do you ever bottom the forks in the whoops?
 
So I'm leaning a bit more about this after I posted.

The PO had out the springs/forks to FTI in NC. I rode it last year as we are about the same size. I called them in January and decided to send back to them for oil/seals adjustment as they were free I just called them and they explained how to read the sticker and said I should use the 5mm. As far as the springs I think it was replaced for the previous owner who was about the same size/weight as me. 170ish. It lists the springs and other info but since I don't know stock I'm not positive.

I was happy with the way the bike rode when I raced but honestly I don't have a ton of race time or experience.
 
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