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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Friggin' Varta Battery!

OldTLSDoug

OldTLSDoug

Husqvarna
AA Class
We were riding yesterday, the G-Town Squid Squad was in full force with a beautiful 102°F day and awesome roads. I was running the Husky at a steady 80-85 mph and it was rocking along. The boys were having fun. At about 180 miles of riding, the battery in the Husky gave up. I was on a brand new pavement chip and seal road that probably was a million degrees hotter than everything else. Anyway as we came into and out of this s-turn into an uphill, the thing bogged-started-bogged again. So I coasted under a shade tree. I messed with the battery leads a few times and it would try to come back, but it acted like it dropped a cell. So, it has been hard starting since I bought it, so I wondered if the "Varta" battery has slowly degraded since I bought the bike.

Well to my surprise, the thing is busted open and has been for a while, apparently. There is absolutely no mess anywhere on the bike, or the outside of the battery, beyond what is shown. But the + terminal is almost unhooked and it has a dead cell (10.62 VDC) so I will try to pick one up today if Cyclegear has one in stock. If not, the local Kaw-Suzuk dealer will hook me up.

So shout out to Tye, and Dana who helped me get her loaded and back to the house. What a great ride it was yesterday. Woo Hoo!

Forgive the quality, cell phone pictures

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