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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Riders Edge 50mm Closed Cartridge

Poopy

Poopy

Husqvarna
AA Class
Sent my forks off to Ian late monday, talked to him on the phone yesterday and went over a few things. Last night late he emailed me to say the forks were almost done, he tested the springs and one tested 0.45kg and the other 0.44kg. He will have them sent back today, and I should be able to ride Sunday and give a full report. I am a little bit excited!

Bike is an '09 WR165.

http://www.ridersedgesuspension.com/
 
Got out to Mcnutt today for a nice hot ride. What can I say about the forks? Well, first trail in is a nice uphill with lots of roots and rocks poking out, the best way I can describe it is that it felt like I was doing a wheely the whole way up, but could still turn. It was so smooth, I can't believe they are the same forks. I didn't play with clickers, just left them the way Ian set them up. The bike turns a lot better, the front tire bites in and doesn't understeer like it did last week. I'm ecstatic.....now I just need to ride better...lol

Can you spot the husky??


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Poopy said:
Got out to Mcnutt today for a nice hot ride. What can I say about the forks? Well, first trail in is a nice uphill with lots of roots and rocks poking out, the best way I can describe it is that it felt like I was doing a wheely the whole way up, but could still turn. It was so smooth, I can't believe they are the same forks. I didn't play with clickers, just left them the way Ian set them up. The bike turns a lot better, the front tire bites in and doesn't understeer like it did last week. I'm ecstatic.....now I just need to ride better...lol

Can you spot the husky??


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Cool trail shot! I love riding that kind of stuff. Good to hear that the forks work great.
 
Nice!
Did they get the revised pistons or just a revalve?

I've had mine revalved twice. First time it was still too stiff and sent all the shock to my wrists, but the second time was mucho better. My tuner thought they'd be too soft, but I dig em'. He's a MX'er, so sometimes I have to explain to him there's no 80' triples in the forest.
 
I got the revised pistons, new 0.43 springs, and a revalve, basically everything he offers. He said the way they were setup from the factory was stiffer than an MX fork....no wonder I hated them!
 
Poopy said:
Got out to Mcnutt today for a nice hot ride. What can I say about the forks? Well, first trail in is a nice uphill with lots of roots and rocks poking out, the best way I can describe it is that it felt like I was doing a wheely the whole way up, but could still turn. It was so smooth, I can't believe they are the same forks. I didn't play with clickers, just left them the way Ian set them up. The bike turns a lot better, the front tire bites in and doesn't understeer like it did last week. I'm ecstatic.....now I just need to ride better...lol

Can you spot the husky??


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I give you credit for riding there today:thumbsup:. Man it must have been hot out there! I spent the day riding the couch nursing a back injury in front of the air-conditioner:(.
 
It was ridiculously hot out....I paid for it with a nice dehydration headache all afternoon. :(
 
huskybear said:
That's a great idea! I can't see a 5 gallon jug of water mounted on the front fender affecting handling at all:lol:!
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Haha, I've actually thouht about using the number plate fuel tank to hold my water when trail riding. It's not changing the overall weight of the bike more than the weight of the empty tank if I carry the same amount, but getting the weight off my back.

The only thing im unsure of is how hard it would be to draw the water out.
 
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