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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Lowered 2010 TE250

vintageveloce

vintageveloce

Husqvarna
AA Class
Previously I had cut my seat, put a Kouba link on the reat and slid the forks up in the tubes. But I haven't been satisfied with that. I have a 28" inseam and as a dirt novice just wanted to be able to touch the ground on one side and a footpeg on the other!
I called all the local shops and ending up picking Nick at Provalve (www.provalvemx.com) in Costa Mesa, California. I wanted to go somewhere that would take the whole bike so I we could really talk about the end results I wanted and so I could see the completed project. Nick was really helpful and spent lots of time with me discussing the project, even though this is obviously a small deal for a novice rider. We removed the Kouba link and moved the forks back up to the stock position. Nick shortened both ends and revalved everything.
So far I'm really happy with the result, but the real test will be in the riding. I can now put my left foot on the ground and reach the footpeg with my right foot. (Touching both feet to the ground is still only a dream. ;-)
Here's a pic of the end result:
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From my experience so far, I highly recommend Nick at Provalve.
 
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