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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Weave at speed?

BiG DoM

BiG DoM

Husqvarna
AA Class
A friend with a Terra gets a weave at about 100kph + ... not that many of these bikes at this end of the pond ... is this a common problem? Possible fixes other than trying tyre pressures etc.
 
Mine is the same. If I take one hand off of the bars it stops... Also, if I'm loaded up for camping with 40lbs or so of gear on the back it completely goes away. I thought my continental TKC 80's had something to do with it but I've been all over with pressures and it doesn't change. The fact that weight affects it though tells me a change in the rear preload or possibly changing the position of the front fork tubes (raising or lowering) could tune this out?? I've just learned to live with it. I'm sure there's a lot here regarding this issue as it's pretty common.
 
Actually if the rear spring is too soft and/or the rebound damping is too high and the preload is high, any bike will get a weave if it hits a bump. I call it the preload blues. First discovered it in the beginning of the eighties and once racing recognised it again many times. Especially as for a very long time Jap motorcycles were sprung way too soft. I is recognized by a sort of rear of the bike waving around then settleing down and the fast you go the longer it takes to settle.
 
Sit a little further back on the seat and the shaking will stop.

The bike needs weight on the rear wheel.
 
I seem to remember that more than one owner found his wheels needed truing and balancing, which solved the problem.
 
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