• 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.

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TE450 Suspension Setup

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trinityracing

Husqvarna
C Class
Does anyone have a good setup for the 2008 TE450? Meaning exact clicks in and out for front and rear shock.. most magazines will do shootouts and say idea set up is 10 clicks from full hard on compresion, 5 on rebound, and 6 mm of fork tube above the tripple tree... anything like that floating around on the site???

I'm about 215lbs without gear...

Also what size sprokets do most of you guys buy for all around use??

Thanks!
 
I'm still on the standard suspension settings as they feel pretty good to me and the bike's still relatively new. I'll do some fiddling once everything's had more time to bed in. I'm just trail riding so you may well want different settings depending on what riding you're going to do.

I went 1 tooth up on the front sprocket, mainly because I have to ride it a ways on the road to get to the dirt and it keeps the revs down a little. If I did less on the road I'd probably have started with the standard gearing to have a bit more pull available if I really need it, but it generally hasn't been a problem so far - might actually be helping me not to lose control as I was riding a WR250R before, so the 450 has quite a bit more punch!
 
What might help is to let people also know what kind of riding you plan to do, and at what level or how much riding experience you have.
Settings for one bike in a magazine test will not work for another bike or rider.......depends on persons weight, riding style, ride conditions and personal likes.

Sprockets also depend on riding you plan to do and conditions. For me personally and my typical riding, I'm fairly certain I would lower the gearing on a '08 TE450 (assume stock is 13/47) by going up to a 50 in back for all around off-road, then have a spare 12T front for tight/steep/technical single track and 14T for limited highway dual-sport type rides.

For suspension this again is just what I do:
Start by verifying it's at settings and sag recommend in manual.
I like to slide forks up to second line as a starting point, then I'll back rebound out until front starts to washout in flat dirt corners and rear until it starts kicking back and hitting me in the butt off whoops. Both ends will get turned back in 1-2 clicks from that point
Next I go tocompression and on both ends I'll turn out 5-6 clicks from stock or until it I get excessive/hard bottoming, then back in 1-2 and ride for 400-500 break-in miles.

After all that, on my Husky, I knew the stock springs were too soft for my 240lbs and had learned I couldn't get the harshness out of the Marzocchi forks. I took forks/shock off and sent all LT Racing to get correct springs and revalved for my needs.......some minor adjustments and it works great....for me.
 
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