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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Sachs Shocks

tommie d

tommie d

Husqvarna
AA Class
I had seen this question posted on another forum with no reply's. This was about a GasGas and some of their bikes have both Sachs forks and shocks. Since Husky uses Sachs shocks I would like to know what your thoughts are on them.


"I was talking with the guy who does my suspension.He was saying the Sachs stuff he has worked on was not made very well made,cheap was the term he used. Anyone else have similar findings?"
 
I dunno.....Sachs is the company that makes suspension for Mercedes Benz and BMW automobiles so it can't be all bad. I just had my suspension revalved and nobody bitched about it at the shop that I had it done at.
 
Dirtdame;74558 said:
I dunno.....Sachs is the company that makes suspension for Mercedes Benz and BMW automobiles so it can't be all bad. I just had my suspension revalved and nobody bitched about it at the shop that I had it done at.
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Yeah, Ducati also uses Sachs shocks :excuseme:





WoodsChick
 
Sachs, cheap? That would be news to me. I would be very surprised to tear into mine and find that it was cheaply made. Personally, I thought it was cool to have a bike with forks made by a company known for forks and dampers made by a company known for dampers. Not that Kayaba, Showa, Ohlin's, can't suitably build both... but it's very "boutique" to buy from "specialists". My .02.
 
The Sach's shocks on all of my Huskies have been very good and far from the week link on the bikes. This is the first time I have heard anyone describe the Sach's shock as "cheap" and poorly made. :excuseme:

Walt
 
The Sachs are very well built and actually better than some of the ohlins that have been supplied on other bikes recently. The sachs has an alloy steel body for better high temp behavior and decreased service intervals.

The Sachs are very good, but they aren't without problems - a few of them need updated/upgraded parts to work properly - Look on the LT-Racing website for more details :

http://www.lt-racing.com/html/tech_tips.html

Jeff
 
I just asked the same question before i sent my suspension in. I was told that it was a well built shock.

typpyt
 
i had a complaint about getting mine apart when i took it to my local shop.

went back together fine i was told.
 
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