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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
FE/FC FX 350 owners
- Thread starter Janman
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87husky500xc
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Brapman629
Husqvarna
A Class
lankydoug
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Dang! So far air forks of any kind haven't worked well for anyone outside the normal height and 190 lb window. The up side is you can say "tree fiddy" every time anyone asks what bike you ride.
robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Dirt Bike test. thumbs up not just from me reading from the TX300 article , my indirect feed through friend of the testers offline, works really well, very smooth and compliant---tested in Co. in the Mtns= rocky loose gnarley trails.
litmus test-----MXA - "can be raced right out of the box with a little pressure tuning and clickers up to Pro level". Those guys always slag everything especially WP forks. And yes I understand this is MXA they are track only guys....but they also did do a little offroad at Cahuilla with the TX300 and liked it
I for one am believing the hype --- these WP AER 48s are the shite, they got it right.
PS just to show how hard MXGP (top tier) guys go and how high the forces they put into their machines- the factory guys that were using the AER forks (some were on spring cone valves as well) were on AER 52s
lankydoug
Husqvarna
Pro Class
There might be a future in the 52 AER for a heavier taller rider if the air chamber is bigger. The best suspension guy I know who also has an engineering degree in hydraulics said the only way they would work for a heavier taller guy is if the air chamber was bigger otherwise it would stack like using the wrong spring with too much preload... this makes sense to me. My son and I only weigh 210 but because of our height 6'6" and 6'8" we have to spring our bikes like we weigh about 240 lbs and our suspension guy advised avoiding air forks all together.
R. Stephen
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Captnemo
Husqvarna
Pro Class
My Son has a new FX450 - it's awesome in power delivery but was just too much for the tighter trails (for me) we race here in Arkansas and Missouri. I also liked the 350 six-speed over the 450s 5-clicker.
And as far as power not much difference (about 4Hp) - He can pull away from me in a drag race but I beat him on top end.
I also can tell quite a bit of difference between 1 & 2 maps and if the traction control is on (already tested that on a muddy trail). Might be the characteristics of the 350 engine, IDK.