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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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I have a 99 360 and am not impressed with the forks
now let me say I have not spent a lot of time on it, the bike has low hours so nothing is worn out
I have a front end from a 2004 and don't know if it will be much better, I was going to get one of them set up for me and as such was wondering if anyone had thoughts which way they would go from experience with both types or jus what would be a better option
 
switching font ends isn't going to help much,you might want to start by springing the bike for your wieght.If you really want it to work get it setup/revalved by some one good.
 
sorry if my wording was vague
if you were to choose a front end for your bike what would you have
currently I have a 99 and an 04
some forks are inherently better than others, stiction, fork seal design (don't constantly fail), adaptable valving, more progressive rates available
some forks just feel better than others, even if the magazines don't like them, just looking for input
I will have whatever forks end up on this rebuilt and set up for my weight and riding, just wanted to start with the best instead of throwing money at some bad design
 
99 to 04 45mm Zoke's are pretty much identical with maybe slight changes to valving that's pretty much negligible...correct fork springs and better valving will sort out the harshness in the mid stroke.
 
These forks are evil if you don't get them re-valved for you. Changing oil weight, height, and clicker setting will only make them slightly less evil. Send front and rear suspension to the best tuner of your choice. If you are going to be using the bike as a trailee then Les at LTR does very nice work to make these plush. If you are going to ride more severe levels of riding then I would replace the valves with either the gold valves or the valves that Riders Edge in Canada sells. You will still need to have someone adjust the shim stack for your personal needs. Les did the forks on my 2000 360 and they were plush and soft just like I wanted them for what I used the bike for. I used it as a dual sport/saw bike, great for that but anything with speed and whoops was a chore.
 
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