• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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Swap my TE suspension for your TC or TXC suspension..?

K5PL5

K5PL5

Husqvarna
Pro Class
May be going out on a limb here but would anyone be interested in swapping their TC or TXC suspension for my TE449 suspension? The bike has about 1200 miles on it. About 85% miles are road miles. Bike is very clean and very much like new.
Looking for something stiffer if anyone out there is looking for more of a dual sport type suspension.
Are the forks a different diameter among the different 449 platforms??
Thanks y'all
 
Planning on doing the same swap over the winter as I have a TXC and a TE in the garage, my understanding is that the rear shocks are the same betwixt the TXC and TE and the front forks are different (Open vs. Closed Chamber) but all of the front forks for the TE/TXC/TC models are 48mm while the SMR has 52mm forks.
 
Intersting. One fork better than the other for performance or rebuild capabilities?
 
Shocks should be the same. Forks on my TE 310 are open cartridge. According to the manual the TXC has dual cartridge forks. Open cartridge are better for woods riding in my opinion. They are nice and plush at low speed, but they bottom out on hard hits. The dual cartridge forks have a second, sealed chamber that soaks up the big hits better. Open cartridge forks are much easier to work on in my opinion (swapping out springs, etc).
 
Open Chamber forks are definitely easier to service but for my riding style and terrain type I will happily give up the initial plushness of open chambers for the closed chambers ability to consistently handle high speed washboard and big hits. I also have had the luxury of having been able to switch between a TXC 449 and a TE 449 over the course of 5-6 days riding and someone else may make a different choice based on riding style / terrain / model of bike etc.
 
My personal preference is the open chambered. I ride off road and do not race my TE511. I have always found it EZer to dial in a set of open chambers for roots and rocks etc. For fast moto, XC, or dez the twin chamber probably offer more control. To me the open chambers = plush and trail fun while the closed chambers = race ready and semi stiff. You can spring and valve anything but TC forks always seem to remain racy and harsh in the slow technical roots and rocks type stuff. My opinion only. Best TC forks I ever rode were on my 09 WR125 House of HP threw the goods at. Nitrate coated, progressive springs total revalve and mid valve. Were race competent yet still comfortable. I destroyed those in a head on and replaced them with some TE250 open chamber re valved and sprung by LTR, those were very good too.
 
Swapping forks is only a bandaid solution, you really need to get them set up for your riding style. That said... Ohlins USA have fork cartridges/internals ($775) and shocks ($702) on their clearance page if you're feeling fancy. Or hit Tinken/Zipty up for some of those fancy 48mm Marzocchi internals ($900).
 
Ive had my race bike-the WR300 done for the ECEA stuff I race. Its odd. I felt good on the suspension in the beginning of the season when I started but now it feels too soft to me in the faster stuff. I am not fast but am def faster than I was at the start of the year. I could easily take the forks and shock off of the 449 and have them done as well but Im just wondering if the twin chamber forks would be a better starting point for what I want.
Im going to have the WR set up this winter a little stiffer and more towards the MX side...I think lol
 
Nothing against Zip Ty. I know what kind of work they do. I would def send my stuff to them if they werent all the way across the country from me. I have a reputable and nice to deal with guy over here like an hour from my house. Call me old school but I like havin a suspension guy not too far away.
 
I thought about what has been said about the twin chamber forks (for woods work) before I bought a bike with them. I talked to two well known suspension gurus that told me they are a better fork for woods work when set up properly. Long story short, my TC 50s are the best I've ever had, set up with Rider's Edge base valves and his recommended shim stacks. Kelly rode the bike but not in the bumpy/rocky stuff. It was soft for him because he is faster and weighs more (think heavier springs), but he liked them.
I love them.
 
I already have the closed chamber forks on the TXC set-up for my riding style / terrain which is one of the main reasons for the swap, if I was starting from scratch with a TE and did not have the closed chamber forks readily available how hard I would be looking for closed chamber forks I do not know...
 
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