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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

What kind of steering damper do you use?

I put a Motosportz damper on my TXC310 as well. At first it was to support the supporters of this website but now after using it for a while it would have been my choice straight up. It is a very simple design that is clean and easy to install and works very well.
 
I´m no great friend of steering dampers, as I like to know what´s happening to my steering setup and don´t want to have problems damped out.
 
Be really careful adjusting the high speed on a Scotts, you can make it lock up way to EZ if you don't know what your doing which is why it is capped off.
 
I use Motosportz dampers on all the bikes. Got the first one in 2007 and ever since then, the GPR and Scotts dampers are sitting in a box somewhere in the workshop:thumbsup:
 
I like my Motosportz damper very much. Keep it on about 1/4 up from the free side. Twice though I have had problems. Got up from a crash and could not ride at all. The lever had got pushed clear to the hard side. Now I check!
 
organ donor said:
I´m no great friend of steering dampers, as I like to know what´s happening to my steering setup and don´t want to have problems damped out.
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You can set the steering damper to fully free and just let it dampen at high speed. That way, when you hit a big obstacle on the trail, you will have survived it to go back and check out your steering.
 
organ donor said:
I´m no great friend of steering dampers, as I like to know what´s happening to my steering setup and don´t want to have problems damped out.
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Do you mean dampers "could be used as bandaids"? If you set the bike up correctly-you know if you have the right initial set up and what problems exist or not: then put the damper on. You can always turn the Motosportz down to low (little to no effect) or take it off (taking mine off takes 2-4 minutes) to test thereafter as you choose.
 
When I have isolated a handling issue and there is a chance of a serious problem (tankslapper and highside) at 130mph or even 80 I'll bolt on a damper. I can see the benefits on dirt as well. I don't normally just buy dampers and bolt on but on specific bikes they may be a requirement if ridden agressively. Sure there is buying new forks and triple clamps, Ohlins front and rear and basically draining the bank to remedy the effects a steep head angle and heavy wheels but at times a simple well engineered damper can help drop your blood pressure, improve the ride and save your hide. IMO.
 
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