• 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.

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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Kevlar Shock Mud Guard

Shane1551

Shane1551

Husqvarna
I recently got a factory Kevlar mud guard from Italy. When I put it on my bike it sat a lot closer to the tire compared to the factory rubber one. After one ride the tire started to wear through the Kevlar. I currently have a 120/100/18 tire on the bike. Would a 110/100/18 be better suited or just put the original guard on and call it at day? I got the mud guard because I hadn't seen one like it before and don't to destroy it.
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The smaller profile tire will definitely put more space between the knobs and the guard, but there will always be some wear from debris being thrown into it, and also because the guard will will flex and move to a certain degree.
 
The 120 or 110 width is probably not the problem. As far as I know his kevlar mudguard was used on the 510 centennial. Its stock tires were 140/80-18. So I think a lower tire like a 120/90-18 should do the trick...
 
Sjiefke said:
The 120 or 110 width is probably not the problem. As far as I know his kevlar mudguard was used on the 510 centennial. Its stock tires were 140/80-18. So I think a lower tire like a 120/90-18 should do the trick...
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Thanks for the information. It’s about time to get get a new tire anyways so probably will try a 120/90/18.
 
kevlar and carbon fiber are not good materials for use in abrasion applications. my carbon skid plate lasted 2 rides
 
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