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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC What forks fit 16 TE300?

J

Jed-Maxwell

Husqvarna
Hi Guys,

I'm new to the forum and new to Huskys. Loving my 2016 TE300 so far, apart from one thing...Yep, you guessed it, the forks!
I've had the bike sprung to my weight and had a revalve by a reputable tuner, they are ok in the slow stuff, but when I try and push at race pace they are harsh and like to bottom out on drop offs etc. The usual story...
Anyway, I've been offered a set of brand new 2016 standard EXC 250 open chamber forks and was wondering if the lugs etc are the same and if they'll bolt right on to my existing wheel and brake etc? (obviously I would need to get the correct springs and possibly revalve).
I know the axel diameter and offset changed for Husky in 2016, but is it the same as the standard 2016 EXCs?
Just looking for options to upgrade really, Are there any other forks that would fit? I could continue to have my 4cs forks worked on and modified in the hope they get where I need them to be, or just cut my losses now and get some closed cartridge or open chambers on there and have them set up for me. My budget is around 1200-1400

Any advice is appreciated.
 
As long as they're the same diameter, you can always swap the claws over. You can also add the new ZipTy Racing 4CS bottoming kit to stop that nasty metal to metal stuff. Also if they can't handle race pace they have the wrong high speed compression.
 
Jed-Maxwell said:
Hi Guys,

I'm new to the forum and new to Huskys. Loving my 2016 TE300 so far, apart from one thing...Yep, you guessed it, the forks!
I've had the bike sprung to my weight and had a revalve by a reputable tuner, they are ok in the slow stuff, but when I try and push at race pace they are harsh and like to bottom out on drop offs etc. The usual story...
Anyway, I've been offered a set of brand new 2016 standard EXC 250 open chamber forks and was wondering if the lugs etc are the same and if they'll bolt right on to my existing wheel and brake etc? (obviously I would need to get the correct springs and possibly revalve).
I know the axel diameter and offset changed for Husky in 2016, but is it the same as the standard 2016 EXCs?
Just looking for options to upgrade really, Are there any other forks that would fit? I could continue to have my 4cs forks worked on and modified in the hope they get where I need them to be, or just cut my losses now and get some closed cartridge or open chambers on there and have them set up for me. My budget is around 1200-1400

Any advice is appreciated.
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I am running the full "kreft" setup and couldn't be happier. I had them done by a tuner in Australia and they are now a great fork, they don't blow through the stroke and handle varying terrain. Best $$ spent and the bike will be transformed . Its not cheap but it works, results are confidence inspiring.
 
Jed - where are you located? There are some cheaper fix options for the 4CS forks these days and once fixed they should be better than a decent set up open chamber fork.

Like ProTune Suspension in Ohio. Or 707 Suspension in Northern CA.
 
I sent mine to Stillwell for the intermediate setup for the forks and shock, it was $1200. I have to say I couldn't be happier, the sag was magically even set correctly to 105mm as they suggested when I got it back. Now my bike turns on rails in soft sand, dances over rock gardens like a dream, and flys over large desert whoops at 30-60mph like magic. I can keep up with my desert racer riding buddies, much easier and much more relaxed, where as before I just couldn't keep up because I was fighting the bike so much and fighting the soft sand in the turns.
I figured it's cheaper to send it to one tuner one time, then send it to several tuners that are cheaper and not being satisfied. I'm a do-it-yourselfer, but Sometimes it's just better (and can be cheaper if you figure in time, tools and frustration) to pay for a service.
 
Ok, one more plug for 707 Suspension. :) I've had suspension done by Stillwell and by 707, for me, 707 was significantly better and much less expensive than Stillwell. I have never tried Kreft, but they are another high end/price tuner that people tend to rave over.
 
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