• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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Lowering front by sliding fork tubes up, how much is too much?

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huskylove

Husqvarna
Pro Class
In an effort to make my te511 rideable.


SO, I took the seat down to just a pan with 1" of squishy foam (hurts my butt) and shoved the forks up to lower the front. The forks are now touching the bars barely.

Mind you this was before even riding the bike.

I have now spent a bunch of time sub 50mph around town riding, and this being my first bike with knobs, I am not sure what to expect. It turns into corners very easily, and wobbling the bars at 50mph did not induce a tankslapper but was very shaky.

I am thinking of taking it on the freeway tonight, but am worried a large bump in turn on interstate speeds may give me a tank slapper?


Is this necessarily dangerous or am I simply not used to a 21" front wheel and knobby tires. It is soooo easy to initiate a turn on this bike it was a bit spooky.

I personally think a damper is necessary from just cruising around on the thing. My bikes are usually supermoto bikes and have all had stabilizers. My ducati did not have one but was nowhere near as lite in the front end.



Also the sag is 3.75" is the most I could get out of it with literally almost no preload on the shock.
 
I wouldn't drop the front end any more than about 16 mm. That will make it very quick turning. I tried lowering both ends of a bike one inch a while back, so that I could touch the ground a bit easier. It worked very good in the tight singletrack, but was way too busy in high speed stuff. I went back to tippy toeing at the stock ride height after a few months.
 
Yea I braved it and took it down the freeway. It was alot better if I sat back on the hump a bit. Pretty stable but the knobs vibrate like hell and the bikes buzzes and wanders a bit. Definitely has a cruising speed of 50-55 stock. 65 doable but the vibration from the tires is immense.
 
Have you had the wheels balanced. This will make a huge difference in the freeway.
 
You will only get it to smooth out a little by balancing. Just gotta let her float around on the knobs. Took me a while to get used to it. Just can't get as much confidence in fast corners.
 
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