• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Where to get springs

cntymnty

cntymnty

Husqvarna
AA Class
I found a place in Oklahoma, Cannon Race Craft. They were recommended to me by Race Tech in California. You give them your dimensions: length, diameter and the spring rate that you want. I need a .52 rate for my weight. They told me three weeks, and three weeks later they arrived. I didn't want to post until I installed them and raced with them. They worked great! Instead of putting extra fork oil in to keep from bottoming, I went with the stock 8.5 ounces. I was impressed. Race Craft delivered what they promised, in the time frame they promised and at a reasonable price. If you need heavier springs for your vintage bike, I recommend them.
 
I had custom springs made by Cannon RaceCraft a few years ago for a YZ-powered Yamaha DT50 Enduro project I built. I was very impressed as well. Springs came out perfect and arrived when promised. Have held up well... I definitely second the recommendation!
 
Please note the calculator for Race tech springs in for a modern bike and way off. Believe me I started with a 50 than trade for 48, traded again 46 and got down
to 44. 44 works I am a big guy (at this time) and 50 is way to much. There is no cost for exchanging springs with race tech
 
Wow, glad to hear that Cannon is still cranking out springs. I've purchased from Cannon but it's been years now. They were right on the money. Currently I use Race Tech's 44 rate spring for the 40mm fork. And, they're the correct length, whereas the stock Husky spring was too long and installed with too much preload.
 
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