• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Should I Re-valve??

TC-NW-BRAAP

TC-NW-BRAAP

Husqvarna
First post on here guys so take it easy on a brother lol....
Just recently got this 17' TE300 and its the first bike I've had that's been properly sprung for my weight. I weigh around 250ish (hopefully less after this keto experiment with my wife) and the guy that I bought from weighed the same and said he put the correct springs in front/rear for our weight. I know you are supposed to calc spring rate based on total weight with gear which I'm guessing he did. Right now I have the bike set to "comfort" settings out of the manual. I am an intermediate rider/possibly advanced (NOT Pro) and will mostly be riding bumpy, Rooty, rocky single track in the Cascades here in WA state. Is re-valving necessary? I've never had professionally done suspension and this bike has low hours and I can justify throwing some bucks at it, but only want to if it's necessary or will make a significant difference. The bike is already the most nimble, best handling bike I've ever had. Other things need to be purchased but I need to prioritize here. Thank you for any input!!
 
the 17 forks had no adjustability, try turning the clicks 6 turns any way and result will be the same, no difference in damping, if you happy with that no need to spend money
 
many simple things one can do to personalize forks before spending on re/valve; 1; fresh oil, lighter/ heavier; big difference; 2; spring swap, lighter/heavier; 3; check preload spacers for ride height and sag;
 
I bought my '17 TE300 new and immediately re-sprung for my weight per the manual. I ride New England woods (so lots of rocks and roots) and it was still very stiff. Had a local suspension guru re-valve (and respring the rear) and it improved it a lot. He even said he was surprised with the valving he took out was motocross stiff.

But if you're happy with it, then there's no reason to spend money on it. Maybe find someone with a re-valved TE to compare it to yours.
 
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