• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Lowering Lowered 2007 Te610

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Nowhere Man

Husqvarna
A Class
I would lower my bike if I can do it cheap. I already put a lowering link on and pushed the fork tubes up in the clamps to the max. There is no preload on the rear spring. But, I still have trouble getting on and off with camping gear on the bike-it is pretty sketchy.

I seem to only use about 8" of travel when touring, so I am thinking of putting springs from an SM in the fork. I feel like they should fit, and I am not sure if I need a SM damping rod or not. It would probably be a good idea, but if I never jump the bike will it matter? Any other parts I would need to change the damper rod?

For the rear, can I bolt on a used SM shock? It seems like it would be the cheapest solution. If someone has had their shock lowered, how much was it, and who did you use?
 
Changing the spring isn't enough, the forks' travel has to be adjusted internally via a spacer, same for the rear (althugh more costly). I would strongly advise against loweing links, you could potentially come to the situation where the wheel hits the rear fender and the shock still has travel in it. SM shock would work but AFAIK it isn't that much shorter. Best option would be contacting a suspension shop, cheapest I dunno... Suspension ain't something I would cheap about
 
wrx said:
Davey is the MAN ! Pikes Peak aint got nothing for that guy !
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He got screwed this year: They changed the displacement rule for his category to allow the KTM Duke 790 to compete. He was already committed to riding the Aprilia SXV which gave up too many cc to be competitive.

He is still the MAN, especially for converting MX bike suspensions to flat track.
Here's my 450 after he converted my suspensions.

450.jpg
 
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