• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
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    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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125-200cc KYB Forks Gold Valve

Travis616

Travis616

Husqvarna
AA Class
I am in the process of installing gold valves in the forks of my '11 CR150. Didn't know if anyone else has used them on these bikes or not? I have always had trouble with the bike not settling into the corners as I would like so I'm hoping they will correct that for me. Didn't know if anyone has been down the same path or not?
 
I thought the consensus was Gold Valves weren't necessary and a simple revalve will do. Can't hurt though, look forward to your results.
I just had my 165 forks revalved, but not happy yet.
I vaguely remember other threads discussing the same, including extensive details about valving, and there's the great suspension tuning thread somewhere.
 
I have an idea of what I'm looking for out of the suspension but not a clear path to get there - that's where the gold valves come in - I figure that I'm buying the information more than the product. A very close starting point is worth the money to me! I might try the r.t valving on the stock piston at some point to see how it compares and see if there really is any difference, I have had the stock pistons out and they sure don't look restrictive
 
Finally got them installed and forks back together. It will be interesting to see what it's like because there's a lot more fork movement just rolling it around! I went a little stiffer too after putting it together the first time, had it as a two stage and saw that pulling the crossover firms it up. I only ride mx with mine so the single stage is likely better anyways. Hope I can get out tomorrow for a quick test run, heading down to a friend's track that I know fairly well Sunday so I'll be able to see what it's actually doing then as long as I'm close now..
 
Here's a picture of the stock valve beside a gold valve, I guess race tech is using the valve to help control the high speed so it isn't all on the shim stack? Kind of backwards to their advertising but if it works I'm in!
 

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Three or four. Didn't try your likewater stuff though, didn't think it would be the answer for me. My bike was too stiff in the corners and then would blow through and bottom on the big hits, my Honda was similar and the gold valves/valving sorted it out really well
 
Worked great today on a fast gp style track, two decent sized tabletops are about the only big jumps out there. Cornering was definitely better, had to go in 4 clicks on compression and two on rebound to make it stick a little better but so far so good! Have to get out on a different track to compare
 
I have found that the clickers are more sensitive than stock, a couple of clicks makes a noticeable difference now. Forks work well in the corners now but could use a little more bottoming resistance for the big hits - still happy with how the gold valves are working out. Might talk with race tech about the bottoming but pretty good otherwise
 
Travis616 said:
I have found that the clickers are more sensitive than stock, a couple of clicks makes a noticeable difference now. Forks work well in the corners now but could use a little more bottoming resistance for the big hits - still happy with how the gold valves are working out. Might talk with race tech about the bottoming but pretty good otherwise
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What is your oil height / volume ? A little more oil should well cure the bottoming symtems
 
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