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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
I weight 310lbs with gear on and I am tall, so I put different leverage on the suspension than normal. I had a 6.3 spring put on the rear & .56 on the front. I think that the geometry is wrong and that it is raked forward. The forks are all the way to the top of the clamps. Once I get the back lower than the front, I will increase compression in the forks and hopefully compensate for washout.
Right now, the tops of my forks are flush with the triple clamps. Should I lower the triple clamps down leaving space at the top?Sorry it was late that night...I meant drop the triple clamps to raise the forks...it helped my bikes turn in quite a bit.
Sounds like the front is digging in, run lower pressure in the front and turn your compression settings down might help. I have only road in a couple sand washes and never any issue with mine.
Running your forks this way should give the best straight line stability. "running your forks up in the triple gives better turnig and less stability."
Notice motorsportz has best of both worlds...Problam solved...
It is a 2012. Ty set up the suspension and made the fork tubes flush with the top of the clamps, but left the clickers all the way out. He has it taken apart in the shop right now and hopefully I can get it closer to working properly before I install the steering stabilizer and the Flexx bars. I'm 6'6 and my leverage torques the suspension differently than most riders, so getting the suspension set for me is a little odd. Once we get the geometry set up, then everything can be adjusted. I just have never experienced this instability before in sand. Hard pack or regular dirt, thing tracks amazingly.
What are your comp/rb settings like?
