• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Kreft suspension

Update, I've been able to ride the Kreft suspension for lots if hours now, a couple races and a National Enduro (Leadbelt= rocky muddy rooted mess) I still love it just as much as day 1.
I've played with 20 and 22 offsets and raising and lowering forks as well as sag settings. As of right now I'm digging forks flush at 20 offset with 105 sag (still want to test 22 offset with forks on second line down) went one click stiffer on comp forks than Kreft settings. It carves! Corners like a dream and being I'm a bigger guy on a tweeked out 350 the extra rear sag (vs left recommend 102 sag) allows me to loft the front a bit easier in those oh crap moments. Still very plush, no major air build up, and no more deflection. It has become much more predictable and forgiving when/if the front starts to let go. I've been able to push many times harder into corners with no drama. I'm a believer in Huck valves for sure now! Very nice! Happy customer!
 
I went with Kreft simply because he fixed my 14 300 xc when no one else could. I wanted the huckvalves and just let me say their worth every penny. If you think your suspension is fine the way it is, ride a Kreft tuned bike, you'll spend the money after the ride.
 
Well another update, I finally returned to the first race I did with this fe350 when it had stock suspension so I got an apples to apples comparison from stock to Kreft on the same terrain.
With The original stock suspension at this enduro race, I rarely do this but I had to quit half way through because the suspension was so harsh on all the little stuff and so soft on the big stuff it just beat me down. The terrain is steep huge hill climbs and down hills off camber roots tight lots of twisting and harsh stuff everywhere, one of those races that never lets up and never gives you a break. So in fear of crashing my brains out and laying at the bottom of a ravine I called it a day last year.
So this year on the new Kreft suspension the club opted to have a two day enduro, the first day I felt fresh and ready to go all day (mind you I'm in the same shape if not worse than the past year) I finished the day out winning the +30 B and actually pulling out 2nd in +30 A and top 10 overall! I was amazed! The second day was even longer and at the half way point I was tired but nothing like the year before, I finished out the second day faster than the first and winning my class again. The difference is nothing short of amazing in how I felt afterwards.
It's really to bad that the suspension work is so expensive, these bikes should really come like this for what we pay for them.
Anyway I bought a second bike a 15' te300 the suspension felt a little better stock vs the 14' 350 but I could sence the unstable front end in the corners immediately. This suspension has been treated to the whole Kreft works as well and I can't wait to rip on it!
I have buddies that have terrible suspension and they won't adjust it for them and they crash on silly clods of dirt . I also have a buddy who converted from never touching a thing to adjusting and having his suspension done and went from mid pack A rider to winning overall AA, I'm just a firm believer that a good suspension set up should be the first thing done, not adding pipes, big bores and power that you can't control anyway because the suspension is bad. Sorry for the rant but this Kreft stuff is still working great!

PS I've talked to Adam several times and has been by far the easiest guy to get ahold of out of any of the tuners I've used, one on one over the phone and if nothing else it inspires confidence!
 
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