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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Vibrational Remedies

I've tried most of the anti-vibe remedies and the two I use on all my bikes are Spider M1 MX grips ($17) and Highway Dirt Bikes’ anti-vibration inserts ($40 with tap, tap guide & hand guard screws).

The HDB AV inserts weight just a little over 3 ounces and are, to me, well worth the small weight penalty. They not only do an effective job of dampening vibes they provide a rock-solid means of mounting my hand guards to the bar ends.

On my 310R I run Flexx bars (10 degree endure bend) with the softest comp & rebound elastomers (Blue/Yellow). These also offer significant vibration dampening in addition to Flexx bars' biggest claim to fame, shock absorption.


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These are what I use along with Flexx handlebars. I have yet to find any better.
 
I installed one of these on my bike at the muffler mount. The reduction in vibration at the bars and footpegs is astounding for less than $10. My ability to ride long distances on the bike now with minimal arm pump and fatigue is significantly improved.
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