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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC Marzocchi vs 4CS

My 50mm Zokes re-valved for me 6'6" 210 lbs are great for the woods as I think most open chamber forks have the potential to be. They are not good on a MX track but in all fairness they were not valved for that. That said, my other two bikes (both Yamahas with re-valved SS forks) are awesome everywhere, in fact they are better than the re-valved Ohlins I had on my GasGas. Your original post doesn't say what terrain you intend to be riding and I'm guessing it's for the TE300 in your info. If your YZ450 is late model then you already have an opinion on the KYB forks so why not add switching to KYBs as option #3?
 
HS507 said:
My 4cs are closed chambered, i here its above 1200 to be revalved. I need to re-spring in future and was thinking of revalve job at that point. Would it be cheaper to just buy Marzocchi and switch and sell my 2016 fork to recoup môney? Is Mar better quality or is this not a wise move and just dump 1200-2500 in mine to convert to open chamber and revalve? Im not knowledgeable as many on this site and looking for input. Thanks guys
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Don't waste your money. The 16 forks are fine.
 
You certainly don't need to spend big bucks. Plus ZipTy has a great solution to the bottoming issues as well.
 
I finally got a chance to really flog my new 15 TE300 and don't know what the fuss is. The forks were fine and I'm
6'2" - 210lbs. Set kind of stiff, they handled deep braking bumps/chop, log crossings and did not deflect when
flying down trails with large rocks scattered here and there. My 09 WR300 Marzokes needed an exorcism. They
were ok in the tight and twisties, but could be terrifying at high speed when hitting rocks or tree roots. Coupled with
the Michelin tires you could find yourself on the ground real fast and unexpectedly.

I have yet to read a mag review that said the forks were as bad as some of the comments I have read on this site, and after
riding it.....I'm a little confused. Will log some more time riding more terrain extremes and see. I'm not one to pick the
fly shit out of the pepper.....so may just not be spoiled yet by a truly excellent fork. My 06 KTM 250XC had great forks, and
these just don't seem that bad. I tried to get them to do something weird.......and couldn't. Will try again and update, hopefully
in good health. ;)
 
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