10 Tips For Setting Up A Great Woods Bike - Husqvarna 300

so welcome back friends to the shop you know what was it four weeks ago or so I when I picked what I picked up this bike I said uh you know I'm pretty much gonna leave everything stock well that's that's that's completely changed and primarily because I didn't know what I was talking about the truth you know so so here's the deal so I've done a ton of modification for the bike to make it more suitable to this area now one thing it's been really interesting is what there's been a lot of controversy in the comments from I guess motorcycle guys like this is stupid this won't work you don't know what you're talking about yeah you're right I don't know a lot what I'm talking about but everything that I've done on this bike is under the guidance of one of the top bike builders in the country he only works for certain people you know he's a retired guy he's got tons of experience and he just does everything the best of the best there's guys he all over the country that buy brand new bikes and shipped them to him in the crate and he sets them all up so fortunately he lives really close by here and he has been very gracious and giving me a lot of time and I spent the day yesterday to shop with him of getting everything set up so this is not my thinking that's gonna work here this is stuff the way he sets up bikes for professional riders he sets a bike for red bull riders in this area it's very specific for this type of riding so those of you who are making those comments that this is not gonna work or you know this is stupid in all honesty you don't know what you're talking about you're not from the area and and you and I'm this is not these are not my ideas these are coming from tons and tons of experience so let's jump in it will go from tail to tip and I'll show you everything that I've done we'll start on the right side rear here so one thing that happens when you're riding rocks of stuff is you can smash and damage these rear discs really easily because they hang down they're so low so this is a I think this is enduro engineering it's a shark shark's fin it's a heavy-duty aluminum guard that this piece is replaceable that that you replaces the the rear brake mounting caliper right there and so that can you can take that off and replace that but that will you go on a ride on the rocks you'll see that they're all dinged up and smashed up and that will protect this of course also switch over to the rear handbrake using all three KTM parts so all stainless steel braided lines so everything is is all original equipment as well as the tubeless tyre system in here the tubeless tires are that's one of the most amazing things I've ever ridden I'm running three and a half pounds in these and the traction is unbelievable I was writing the other day on some really slippery stuff with some other guys and behind them watching them go up this you know kind of a steep muddy hill and they were they were paddling with their feet and and just you know spinning out and then putting ruts in the trail you know running 15 pounds of pressure me running three and a half it just crawls up there like a like like a track it didn't even spin it's absolutely incredible up on top the FMF racing a 2.1 turbo core this is a u.s. Forest Service approved spark arrestor so we can write in the forest another thing it's made a really huge difference is replacing the spring on the on the rear shock so these come pretty under sprung for lighter weight guys so working with Bob what we did is I put myself on the scale with all my riding gear that's with the tools and with a water bladder and and all of the stuff you know that you would carry on a long enduro ride and then just and then measure the spring accordingly to compensate for all that weight I think these are set up from the factory like it's 160 pound Rider and you know me coming in with all my gear I'm close to 250 pounds you know with everything on boots and all of that so we went up five spring sizes or five Springs a stiffer to to level that out and to and improve the to get the bike set up for my weight this is one of my favorite changes right here the factory pegs they felt really small for me and they sit up really tall so these pegs are much bigger they're they're probably half again is the size wise bigger than than the stock ones and they give you a nice wide platform and they clean out really good the mud falls through them and they don't gum up but the most important thing is is that you can adjust them so they sit lower so they're quite a bit lower than the factory pegs as well as they sit back so for taller riders if you're if you know you're a big writer you can if you can pick up 3/4 of an inch here and get those things back a little bit makes it huge huge difference that that's one of the best things that I've done this is something I haven't ridden yet these are aftermarket frame protectors and they the factory ones were just as black slick plastic and I found him to be very slippery on the boots these have a rubber compound that tie in good with the boots and help you to pinch in and to hold the bike to hold on to the bike with your with your legs one thing I tried that I I really liked at first and then I started to have a problem with are these these are called steggzz pegs and they're made by invented by a guy in Australia and I loved riding with him what the principle is is they've got these rubber discs on here if they bolt onto the kin of the factory settings there's a u-bolt there and as you pinch in the bike you lock in your motorcycle boot it behind these rubber discs and they work great especially for hill climbing it takes all the pressure off your arm when you're going through really ready stuff it helps that do you really stable on the bike the downside had with ladies is they hurt my knees because what I found is I got to relying on them so much and I have spent so much time with my knee keyed in there that my knee was unkind of an unnaturally bent all the time when the normal riding as you stand up and up and down you know you kind of get a nice range of motion and they make my nice or so I just stood them even all the way back and I still have the problems I don't know that I'm gonna be able to use those so this is a trail tech electric fan kit there's only a fan on just one Raider that's all all you need and it ties in it was really select tied into the factory harness just plugged right in it's got a little thermostat on there that gives you the gives you your ambient air temperature which is kind of cool and then you can set when you want to come in if you look right there there's a copper thermostat that presses in between the radiator fins and that's what the sensor for this so when you start if you're doing a long hill climb or you're not passing air through this will come on and cool the bike down immediately and then that just is a tremendous amount of insurance for protecting the engine and keeping it cool I've also added a billet aluminum these are bulletproof guards for the radiator it's they offer cut protection a couple different ways you know of course from punctures if you get into a stick or something that's gonna protect that radiator radiator from getting a hole in it but primarily it's the side impact that's really will get you if you when you dump your bike off of a rock or something and you hit really hard on this it will just crush the radiators and that's an expense you ruin your ride I mean you and then your bike's gonna overheat it could take it could be catastrophic so this is insurance for that so it's all billet aluminum it's it's really well made it ties into the factory mounts and it's super rigid you could drop your bike hard on rocks right there and that's gonna absorb that impact transferring it to the frame and protect those fragile radiators so up here on the controls I've I've done a lot of stuff up here actually so I took to account for my height and my big long gorilla arms I've raised the bars with the factory bar risers that's about an inch and a quarter or so and moved everything forward so those are really nice there I had some on my old bike and they were kind of some cheesy aftermarket ones and every time I'd crash they would twist it mess up these will not they're all keyed into the triple clamp they're super super burly so up front here I've added the the ProGuard aluminum these are the roof shields as well as the heavy duty this is a really great setup Bob put all this together for me I've just never seen a stronger setup than this these things are tough now I had to there was took quite a bit to fit these to the bars and I had to rather than use the expansion nuts in there we drilled and tapped the handlebar and threaded in an aluminum insert locked I did it all in and this actually threads into that because in past bikes I've had crashed where these things would get sprung and those stupid expansion nuts they pull out all the time they're phony this is really done properly and with the factory all with the factory grips in the factory bolt vulcanized throttle grips and all of that the way what really makes it strong as this bar up front I'm really stoked how Bob pull this together so this is a this is a thick this is heavy it's probably half inch aluminum bar across here that ties in to the pro tape with these protei protein bars with the clamps here bolts on here and then the the hand grip bars come in like this and these are thick this is all half-inch stuff I heard some people say that oh you don't want to ride these you know you hit something and they'll crush your and there these are not these I mean the amount of force it would take to break these things you're gonna have way bigger problems in a crushed hand I mean maybe that happened on some cheesy skinny ones but not not I just don't see that that's possible I would rather have these big guards on here to protect all of the levers and the controls at my hands cuz riding in the trees it's a Miss daunting when you're bombing 30 miles an hour down a single track the through that are tight you know where you're just clearing trees by inches on the sides you want that you want to have protection on your hands and this is really Ciroc solid so these are the bar clamps those are you've got the four Allen's on there and those are right pushed up tight to the at the widest part of the bar there by the bar clamps and they are all bill it's super nice and it's also nice as it pushes these hand guards out so you can still access and you can see your odometer and your trip computer and all of that stuff this is one of the best parts right here the double the double handle so we've got a clutch on the top this is just the factory clutch that we've moved up and this is a bracket that Bob builds here to hold that basically gives you like another handlebar up there and moving the brake off of the foot over here over here under the handle like a bicycle the only reason why motorcycles didn't didn't have brakes up here originally was because they need to have a clutch handle you know now with the advent of the auto clutch that's just not necessary anymore so having it up here is so much better for in my opinion the arguments all was made in the comments that well if that's so good how come the top and dermal writers don't read them well maybe they prefer that way I don't know I don't know those guys but one thing I do know is that they have to ride kind of have to write factory bikes you know they'll fly all over the place and they'll ship them a bike you know sometimes they have their own but sometimes they have to have a so they typically want to write a bike that's as stock as possible it's the easier to get parts for it all of that so why they don't you know I don't know all I know is that this is really popular here everyone's writing them and it's it's just so much easier to ride and so much easier to modulate especially with these mid midwest mountain these brake levers they are wider they're thicker they're heavier and they pull twice as hard truly with one finger an index finger like this single-pole I can lock the rear tire on dirt easily if it gets really bad you know two fingers but that's it that's all you're ever gonna need the pressure that they put on the rear brake is so so strong so as you can see here these this guard system here is really great it wraps all the way around the roost guards are super rigid and that's going to protect all of those those levers in there I run them a little bit loose so if you were to get something in there that it could move a little bit rather than breaking but they're pretty pretty tough I don't think that there's gonna be a problem their placement is excellent I don't use the clutch a lot with it with a reckless clutch it's primarily gonna be the brake but if I do want to use it I can't can do it and I can operate it from any position with one hand and and I may move this a little bit but I think I think it's gonna be pretty close to this position this is a great setup right there the next thing that I did was I changed the gearing front rear sprockets the factory was a 1350 that's 13 teeth on the front and 50 on the rear I went to a 1252 and the reason why I talked I noticed it was too tall especially when we were up in some really steep stuff on some hill climbing even first gear was a little bit tall on this bike so I talked to Bob about it and he recommended that what he's running on his all their bikes here at the 1252 s because what that does is it allows you to keep pretty much keep the same distance between the wheels if you just change one sprocket it can pull up you know pull the chain out or pull the wheel forward or push it back and it affects the characteristics the handling of the bike yeah if you do pull the wheel back it might be a little bit better for hill climbing but it's gonna be a little more lethargic it's not going to be as quick turning where if you get it too far forward you know you just have the opposite effect so if you want to maintain to have that Mountain gearing and maintain that that the distance between the wheels that 1252 is pretty close and of course up front here is the 12 2 sprocket good luck finding one of those I couldn't find anywhere my brother-in-law told me he's like you want to get that 12 tooth I looked all over the place I couldn't find they're not really even made anywhere that I know of Bob does have is having these made at a at a machine shop somewhere I don't know where it's like I got it from him so that's a 12 up front so that's gonna gear it way way down and give you that to be able to pull hills hillclimbs in second and third gear this right here it's been the biggest improvement that I've done on the bike and that's the running getting rid of that horrible factory carburetor and running the electron carburetor I was having terrible times with it's running too rich it was fouling plugs I was changing everything and I was I couldn't get it adjusted right it wouldn't idle them it was just a nightmare so I started talking or asking around and all everybody said the same thing he's like put electron on it so this is a is a carburetor that's self adjusting you don't have to touch it it came from lecture on and it was perfect it was what was bolt on the only thing I had to do is to bring it up to IR bring it up to temperature and I turned this idle screw maybe a quarter of a turn and I increase the idle a little bit and from it's been absolutely flawless it adjusts for altitude elevation it adjusts for temperature it's like having a fuel injection without all of that nonsense this bike right here is the last year of a 300 before they go to full fuel injection and that fuel injection is it's got some serious problems with two strokes it's adding a ton of weight there's already sorts of all sorts of issues you know it's kind of like the you remember the SMAW the days of the smog era and the 70s when they bolted all that stuff on those cars and you know choked them down and nothing worked very good and the smog pumps that's kind of where we're at with the two-stroke some of some of that fuel injection so this right here hasn't just been it's been amazing the difference it as soon as I put it on it was a different bike it's clean it's crisp but it never bogs it just hits is the throttle is always there it is that's just amazing so that's pretty much it this probably be the last video I do on on the setup I've got two things coming I've got a p3 carbon carbon pipe guard there'll be a full wrap to protect that that pipe as well as an sx s full length ABS skid plate which will wrap up cover the front and go back and there's even covers that rear linkage that hangs down so when you're going over logs and different things the only other thing that I might do is I want to write it with this gearing first I don't know yet but if I do want a little bit more bottom end on it I might replace the head put a high compression head in it and that that would be it that the bike that was pretty much totally set up I might have to do put springs in the front forks to account for my weight I do like a pretty plush ride I'm not a super fast writer I'm more of a like technical drop-off you know things like that so if I start you know if I'm using it up too much of the front forks and I might have to do that or you even go with a thicker fluid to slow that down but that would probably be that's it then there's there's just nothing really more to do it's really really well set up here now for our area one thing that I did that the if you're gonna put electron carburetor on and you have a new bike this is an 18 300 te you can't use the factory throttle which the KTM throttle is really nice compared to you know these cheesy aftermarket ones and so when I got bought the carburetor the guys electron they said they didn't have the cable because they changed it and so they sent an aftermarket one with a different cable and I put that on there and I didn't like it just the build quality of it it's hard to take a factory KTM part off and put something you know something like this on there and then I didn't have the vulcanized grips the factory grips anymore and it was awful so what I ended up doing is getting rid of this and going and modifying the cables I just took three quarters of an inch off of the housing so that it would work with a carburetor you can do that to strip that that off there then you can use the factory throttle and the factory grips and all that and not have to have an aftermarket part so I'm much much happier about that alright thanks for watching and we'll see you guys on the next video

Channel: Wranglerstar

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Keywords: Wranglerstar, dirtbike, husqvarna, te300, two stroke, ktm, honda, kawasaki., 2018, enduro, graham jarvis

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Length: 17min 19sec (1039 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 19 2018