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I had mine revalved in Holland for minimal outlay and bang they work. A few clicks at the track and I'm so much happier.
Also Matt at EvoTech says he has a good setting for them.
If I had to invest big money I'd go the Ohlins TTX cartridge route.
Btw, my Husky has stock "Off-Road/FE" valving.
The previous owner had them revalved by Stillwell performance and I am sure they are much improved over stock but last weekend I had an experience during my race that will have me headed for some cone valve forks this winter.
The forks are set up for a 175lbs vet int, I weigh 180lbs and I run +25A but I am not a front runner, usually back half of the pack so I would the revalved should be close to the right setup for me.
The forks feel great on small chop, the bike tracks well and turns on a dime. The was a small double at a private track that I was over jumping into the flats, 3rd gear, maybe getting 5ft off the ground if that. These forks did not like that hit, blew through the stroke and bottomed lightly, not crazy but enough that I clenched my teeth every lap. At that point I stiffened the comp 2 clicks. Still good in the small stuff, not harsh imo.
But the crazy one at the race was 3rd gear coming down the landing if a big step up down into a g-out before it goes back up hill and turns right at the top. Basically a g-out with braking bumps because you have to slow for the turn after it goes back up hill. I'm on the binders and the first 3 or 4 bumps feel great then I hit that last one and the forks bottomed sooo hard I just knew I broke something! I mean I thought the legs came through the caps! Like nothing I have ever felt on a dirt bike in 15 years! I guess that was their issues with multiple hits that everyone talks about.
I'm not going to try to fix em, I am going to replace them and continue to enjoy me awesome smokin ktm!!!
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They added a bunch of saw dust to the track and ripped it deep, it was very soft in practice and by first moto the whole track was littered with 2-3 ft tall braking bumps. Going down fast hills and going through corners. The track was brutal, never got a second to rest from bumps.
Set the clickers to what my tuner suggested, swapped my old shock over so that was already set up. Even in the brutal conditions I felt the forks worked pretty good. I was charging down the hills, they didn't feel to harsh even through the roughest parts of the track. If anything the shock felt worse as the back end was kicking around quite a bit going through the high speed sweeping hills. I never really over jumped anything so can't comment on how they are really flat landed hard. But I felt they worked pretty good through the rough stuff.
I called my suspension tuner today to let him know how I liked it because he was curious on my opinion. I won't say who but it's one of the big name suspension tuners ( not some local guy ) he also said he tested a customers bike this Sunday. A new factory edition 250f, with a set cone valves set up by power band. He said the track he rode got pretty rough to. He rode 4 practices on the stock 4cs and a few with the cone valves. He actually said he thought the stock 4cs felt better to him. And he does suspension for a living, not saying the stock stuff is better and the cones can probably be set up better but was a little shocked he said the stock stuff felt better.
Maybe you guys who are saying the stock stuff is un rideable are just to picky, I thought they worked pretty good for not even being broken in yet. Like I said the track was brutal, not one smooth section. I didn't test them on a smooth highway track.
I'm looking at their XC line, so I'll wait to hear how those are performing on the '16's.
Why isn't anybody talking about the ohlins 22mm cartridges inserted in the stock 4cs uppers and lowers as a solution??? Only 1200 bucks or so
are the 3500 dollar complete ohlins forks or wp 48mm cone valve forks that much better???
He is running bone stock 4cs on his new Husky 350 and swears its one of the best out of the box setups ever.
But read my post earlier in this thread, the 4cs ship has sailed for me, going a different direction without a doubt and I am not in the minority, your buddy is
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