• 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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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

trail or racing a TE449

SAM511 said:
Hi Spud.
I gather the Reiger shock must me around 7mm shorter in full open length compared to the stock KYB to give you 20mm lower rear end (3:1 ratio) ?
I will be following your analysis. I have done mine as you know and it will be interesting where you end up.
Some photos would be eagerly awaited.
SAM511
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The reiger is a shorter shock but with the same travel as a standard kyb. Shortening the kyb by 4mm lowers the seat height by about 12-15mm and brings the rear down a little to much slowing the steering. I found the front wheel would 'push out' in corners so if your running with the 4mm lowered shock and your front forks springs are correct you should find it the same as i did. 1mm shortening of the kyb would be a better option and leave the forks on the first ring. The other thing about shortening the kyb is you'll be through first part of the stroke, so this may make running over small bumps having the shock going in to its mid part of the stroke to soon. I've not tried a 1mm shortening i'm going to try the full length and run a slightly softer rear shock spring because of the cts and the rear shouldn't kick on hard edges bumps. The reiger doesn't kick its a factory part ive been lent it by a race team so its very expensive to buy. I'll try my new set up with the kyb if i can't match the reiger then i'll have to discuss this with the race team. I'm also seeking a ride on a TC449 for cross country events.
 
spud1968 said:
The reiger is a shorter shock but with the same travel as a standard kyb. Shortening the kyb by 4mm lowers the seat height by about 12-15mm and brings the rear down a little to much slowing the steering. I found the front wheel would 'push out' in corners so if your running with the 4mm lowered shock and your front forks springs are correct you should find it the same as i did. 1mm shortening of the kyb would be a better option and leave the forks on the first ring. The other thing about shortening the kyb is you'll be through first part of the stroke, so this may make running over small bumps having the shock going in to its mid part of the stroke to soon. I've not tried a 1mm shortening i'm going to try the full length and run a slightly softer rear shock spring because of the cts and the rear shouldn't kick on hard edges bumps. The reiger doesn't kick its a factory part ive been lent it by a race team so its very expensive to buy. I'll try my new set up with the kyb if i can't match the reiger then i'll have to discuss this with the race team. I'm also seeking a ride on a TC449 for cross country events.
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Hi Spud,
My personal experience does not follows yours with the TE449/511 bike setup.
The 4mm shorter shock lowered the rear ride height 12mm and the modification has given me no regrets at all, only positives.
Remembering that every action has an opposite and equal reaction, I also lowered the front end slightly to ballance the bike again by adjusting the set fork height in the triple clamp. I settled on 10mm which is the second indent line on the fork tube, and this restored the bikes inherent good steering. Also bear in mind that I had a full Racetech fork job done.

SAM511
 
Sam, your setup is not that far off mine. Ive gone a bit more withpushing the forks through the yokes by 25mm. I did this because the bike in stock trim was on the first ring, or 5mm. Then add the 20mm the reiger has lowered the rear makes to the 25mm. However, because the reiger runs a big static sag the bike is still pitching the rear down more then the kyb. When the kyb is refitted ill run the forks flush to the top of the clamps and slowly adjust them finally getting it shacking the steering so id know ive gone to far. Lots more testing for me
 
spud1968 said:
Sam, your setup is not that far off mine. Ive gone a bit more withpushing the forks through the yokes by 25mm. I did this because the bike in stock trim was on the first ring, or 5mm. Then add the 20mm the reiger has lowered the rear makes to the 25mm. However, because the reiger runs a big static sag the bike is still pitching the rear down more then the kyb. When the kyb is refitted ill run the forks flush to the top of the clamps and slowly adjust them finally getting it shacking the steering so id know ive gone to far. Lots more testing for me
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I will be following your progress.
SAM511
 
krieg said:
The TE 449 and the new Triumph Tiger will both be on a trailer headed for the Pennsylvania Coal Regions this Thursday for an Easter weekend riding extravaganza!
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You riding at Reading Anthracite? If so, great place to ride! Did my intro ride on my TE449 there with the boys on the KTM 2-strokes with their racing numbers. Was hiliarious to see the 'heavy' 449 right behind them every time they looked. Would toot the horn once in a while just to piss 'em off. Hope that riding area stays open, love the single track and now that i have the 449, don't even mind all the damn rocks! :thumbsup:
 
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