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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE630 front forks modification/conversion

So, I have got my TE back after three weeks with souped up suspension and it works great. I have done today quick 30 km enduro trip including lots of whoops in a bush and lots of rock. The suspension - especially front finally works as it should. It is plush in initial strong, but then gets quickly progressively harder to prevent bottoming. My biggest issue on standard suspension was almost no deflation of quick hits (rocks, edges, etc.) and that is now all resolved to my satisfaction. As it stands suspension (mainly forks) stopped to be main limiting factor offroad - now TE is for me limited only by its weight and that is fine as I use it primarily for adventure trips.

I'm completely ignorant in things suspension, so I just tried to memorize as best as I can what the guy who did my suspension did. It may very well be complete nonsense, but here goes: after lots of profanities when talking about standard forks, he said that he changed some shims (is that a word?), but main problem from his point of view was that compression rod did go straight against metal stop without any compression valve in place. So he added the valve. He did not change the travel to 300 mm as I originally asked him - something about not being able to get right spacers. However it works fine now so I'm not going to chase that.
 
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