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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Swingarm shortening

Super5onic88

Husqvarna
AA Class
Just after a bit of info from the guys who have shortened their swingarms.

Where did you cut and shut?
Did you run into any problems?
How much shorter did you go?
Have you noticed a change in cornering?
 
Just after a bit of info from the guys who have shortened their swingarms.

Where did you cut and shut?
Had the axle block bit cut off, then 30mm of the swinger cut, then the axle block welded back on.
Did you run into any problems?
Poor bike setup ended up getting me a little sideways, then a lot airborne.
How much shorter did you go?
30mm, taking the wheelbase down to that of the older 2010 SMR450's.
Have you noticed a change in cornering?
Turns quicker, better for tight tracks.

Due to the shorter pivot length of a shorter swingarm you need to go down a spring rate or two on the shock to compensate, also the geometry takes quite a bit of fiddling with to get right. I cbf messing around with it for now so put my stock swingarm back on. I'm currently on the front end of the bike so my focus is on the forks. I might not even bother with the swinger if my grand plans for my forks works out.

It's also not cheap to get it done (several hundred dollars), mine cost more than what I'd call a reasonable amount, but that's the price of getting it done in Aus!
 
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