• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

new 2012 TE511

James Patton said:
Rich, what they do is disassemble the forks and rear shock. They use spacers to equally lower them so you still have
the same chassis set. The amount lowered cost you ground clearance and suspension travel. The benefit for me is
Being able to maintain control in the woods and in muddy rough conditions. I don't do motocross (big air) so this lowering
Is a benefit to me. The cost is around 400.00. Well worth it to me. A lot of enduro guys do an inch. The suspension
Guy recommended 1.5 for me. I think he's right. I will post back after testing. For me it is at least as important as
Pipes, tuners etc...to do well in a hare scrambles or TT this will allow me better handling, and control.
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James, I plan to lower mine an inch for all the same reasons.
What did you have to do with the sidestand?
 
James,
Thanks a bunch for the info. As I am new to the bike, and so far I have only put miles on the ice, I will wait until after I get back from Moab later this month. It is pretty close for me, but I may just slide the forks up a few more MMs and leave the rear shock preload on the soft side.
Best of luck with your new setup and thanks for all the sharing,
Rich


James Patton said:
Rich, what they do is disassemble the forks and rear shock. They use spacers to equally lower them so you still have
the same chassis set. The amount lowered cost you ground clearance and suspension travel. The benefit for me is
Being able to maintain control in the woods and in muddy rough conditions. I don't do motocross (big air) so this lowering
Is a benefit to me. The cost is around 400.00. Well worth it to me. A lot of enduro guys do an inch. The suspension
Guy recommended 1.5 for me. I think he's right. I will post back after testing. For me it is at least as important as
Pipes, tuners etc...to do well in a hare scrambles or TT this will allow me better handling, and control.
Click to expand...
 
That sounds good. My CR is full height and I live with it. I could live with this one too. This bike is my swan song, and
I am going goofy on mods. I have a KLR that I did the same with and it is fine. Who knows I might not like this in the
Long run. We will see....
 
Yes that's true. The CTS is great. The 511 hooks up out of corners on a TT track better than anything I have
rode. I really just brought the height down to where it at as a lot off hare scrambles and enduro guys seem to have
Theirs,
 
More farkles. Got the enduro engineering bark busters, and the sicass debree deflectors with turn signals built in,
And flush mount rear turn signals. Straight plug and play. Just need to pick up bike from halls after suspension
Work.
 
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