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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Suspension ?

R

redbone

Husqvarna
AA Class
Does the valving in the forks and shock have to be changed if you put heavier springs on a bike? Basically what i'm asking is does the springs affect the valving or are they separate in what they do?
 
they are separate, but connected. if the spring change is only 1-2 steps, then all you really need to do is adjust the rebound slightly (1-2 clicks more rebound for heavier springs).
 
Yes, springs effect valving. Stiffer springs mean it is harder to compress so less compression damping and returns with more force so it will overcome the rebound damping. Now that said usually if your not going a bunch of spring rates from stock there is enough adjustment to get close to what you need. That said a spring AND revalve is always the best solution.
 
By the sounds of it I should of change my valves, I had my spring change to suit my weight of 120 kg

So what brand of valves should I get? or are they all the same? :confused:
 
You don't "get valves" (other than buying Gold Valve kits). You have the shim stacks restacked differently by a suspension tuner.
 
Does the bike feel good for you as is with the springs? I am 120 kgs and changed out the springs front and rear, adjusted rebound and thought you bloody beauty after a ride and have not done any stacker work.
 
To be honest, my TE 450 Does not feel as as good as my old RMX the harder you push it the better it handle. I had the springs change at a local bike shop, I'm beginning to think that I should send my shocks to Krooz Tune in Melbourne where I had my RMX done
 
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