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

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE 449 Geometry

javadog

javadog

Husqvarna
A Class
I was wondering iff its worth adding the 4mm spacer to my 2011 te449 and running 110 rider sag and lowering the front, or leave it as it is with 120mm sag and higher at the front. Does shortening the shock and lowering the front actually have any change to the geometry overall and improve handling?
 
If it feels good now, I wouldn't change it. The more you lower the rear end and raise the front, the more stability you have and less turning ability. Lowering the front and raising the rear is the opposite, better turning, less stability. Make sure your springs match your weight.

For me, I ride in sand most of the time, so I have the tops of my forks flush with the triple clamps (all the way down), and I have the 4mm shock reduction + 115mm race sag.
 
Just installed the correct Racetech springs for my weight that I got from Terry Hays Shock Treatment and wow what a difference. My bike is fun to ride now. I will get the gold valves installed at a later date but so far the springs have made a huge difference. :)
 
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