robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Well my hater thread is now officially dead. A quick couple of thoughts on the 4CS. To be proper and scientific I should have re-sprung them first and rode them stock for a while. I rode the entire bike in out of the box condition at one of our local rides, its the hardest core trail we have and usually has a 1/3 drop out rate. I finished with no real drama on the bike with only 1hour previous break in ride on it.
Anyway we have been playing around with this thing for a few months of scientific testing and revalves, re springs, add oil remove oil. And I got worried and was getting tired of getting my ass kicked, plus Im no suspension tester pro by a long shot. But I do know when its good, Ive ridden top tier stuff. I crashed off a trials section and almost ruined myself do to the forks acting like crap. Something needed to be done drastic.----
Ty got this thing right, out of the gate. Its really really good. super smooth and just eats whoops. Most importantly it just goes up stuff like a goat with zero deflection off those HS comp hits (that was my biggest issue!!) I hit bottom 4x yesterday 2x hard in extreme cases, she may need only a couple clicks of comp or maybe a wee bit more oil , I will discuss that later (Im afraid to tighten up the comp because she eat sharp stuff so nicely now, so it may be a few cc of oil). Both top adjusters are now REB and added base valves are COMP at the fork bottoms, so they are sort of "deconfigured" I dont care how they are configured they just needed to work like they do now!! I was close to ebaying a set of older open chamber forks from an XC-W! That idea has been erased. good to go!! 100% good to go.
I weight 210 nekkid and have .48 spring up front and a 6.1 out back with 25mm of free sag (per Tys suggestion). We have a little bit of unscience here due to the fact that we did the forks, added a GPR, and added a GT216AA tire. For the sake of simplicity and for our slow average speeds I will remove the GPR, for tight stuff it gets a little tiring even at its lightest setting, plus mine may have a slightly bent control arm, it binds going left.
To do it all over I would first respring and ride the crap out of the bike break it in proper than make a decision.
Oh yea as for the rear- OEM stock with a heavy spring and corresponding clicks in to the reb to compensate. My HSCD is way out/open at 2.5 turns to eat rocks, my LSCD is --I dont remember off hand, note the rear is good as is.
Anyway we have been playing around with this thing for a few months of scientific testing and revalves, re springs, add oil remove oil. And I got worried and was getting tired of getting my ass kicked, plus Im no suspension tester pro by a long shot. But I do know when its good, Ive ridden top tier stuff. I crashed off a trials section and almost ruined myself do to the forks acting like crap. Something needed to be done drastic.----
Ty got this thing right, out of the gate. Its really really good. super smooth and just eats whoops. Most importantly it just goes up stuff like a goat with zero deflection off those HS comp hits (that was my biggest issue!!) I hit bottom 4x yesterday 2x hard in extreme cases, she may need only a couple clicks of comp or maybe a wee bit more oil , I will discuss that later (Im afraid to tighten up the comp because she eat sharp stuff so nicely now, so it may be a few cc of oil). Both top adjusters are now REB and added base valves are COMP at the fork bottoms, so they are sort of "deconfigured" I dont care how they are configured they just needed to work like they do now!! I was close to ebaying a set of older open chamber forks from an XC-W! That idea has been erased. good to go!! 100% good to go.
I weight 210 nekkid and have .48 spring up front and a 6.1 out back with 25mm of free sag (per Tys suggestion). We have a little bit of unscience here due to the fact that we did the forks, added a GPR, and added a GT216AA tire. For the sake of simplicity and for our slow average speeds I will remove the GPR, for tight stuff it gets a little tiring even at its lightest setting, plus mine may have a slightly bent control arm, it binds going left.
To do it all over I would first respring and ride the crap out of the bike break it in proper than make a decision.
Oh yea as for the rear- OEM stock with a heavy spring and corresponding clicks in to the reb to compensate. My HSCD is way out/open at 2.5 turns to eat rocks, my LSCD is --I dont remember off hand, note the rear is good as is.
I'm sure mine need a good going through since Iv'e thrashed em really hard this season. 60 hours and 1800 miles on the clock. I rode in some really muddy conditions as well but I did install neoprene seal savers when I first bought the bike so hopefully the seals aren't too toasted. The forks and shock are ready for some much needed love. I will be sending them in soon. Thanks ZipTy
