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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Tight trail handling

Bartz

Bartz

Husqvarna
B Class
I seem to be drawn (by an orange thing) ino tighter and tighter trails and find the 07 te450 doesn't have as much turn angle as the orange things. I've raised the forks in the clamps which has helped but still find it easier on the orange things. Is there anything else I can do to improve tight turning?
I have eyed off the steering stops and thought about grinding some off for more steering, had anyone done this?
 
The 05/06/and 07's were a tad less nimble than the 08 efi versions and onwards. Are you comparing an older KTM with your bike or a new one. Older KTM's had great tractable engines but suffered from headshake without a damper. That said your husky will out grunt it. I would push my rear wheel as far forward as possible, makes for quicker turning but does loose a tad of stability at speed. You might have to take a link or two from your chain Next step, when replacing your rear tyres get one with say 18/80/120 that will reduce your track fractionally as well, but probably into over kill now. If you are also a big fella its best to keep to 18/100/120 so as to discourage pinch flats. In closing just wind the steering stop bolts in an 2-3 mm each side. Would not recommend shaving the bolt heads.
 
Also proper suspension set up- sag/springs, compression and rebound.
for instance if your bike has too much sag- it turns like a chopper. The compression should allow it to sink into corners- while rebound holds it there just long enough. All benefits you in tight woods.There should be a balance between the front and rear- both should be set properly.
Take it to a suspension tuner- or tune it your self:
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/suspension-setup-recommendations.17268/

Also- YES- the turning radius itself is tighter with the ktm's but that really doesn't matter unless at or near a dead stop. Most of that is overcome by setting up a corner and predicting turns and lean angles. I don't even think of it anymore after getting used to it. I went from a 2002 KTM RFS to a 2009 TE 450- once I got used to the TE- I couldn't ride the Ktm.
 
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