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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2012 Enduro 2 Strokes - Images and Changes

hammer said:
My wife also rides a 08 TXC450. So it was not mellow power or the small size, it's that the GasGas is light years ahead of the 2 stroke Husky. I had my first real ride on her bike today and I can tell you this thing is an incredible woods bike.
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Not a GG fan. I have friends who have GG and they like a lot about the bike and hate quite a bit more. Cheaply made in places like brake petal mounting. I also strongly dislike the perimeter frame and seat. I feel the Husky is a much better made bike at a better price. But what do I know ?
 
Vinduro said:
Not a GG fan. I have friends who have GG and they like a lot about the bike and hate quite a bit more. Cheaply made in places like brake petal mounting. I also strongly dislike the perimeter frame and seat. I feel the Husky is a much better made bike at a better price. But what do I know ?
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I own an 03 Gasser and an 09 Husky so comparing them directly may not be fair to the GasGas since GasGas has been making improvements every year. That being said there are areas that the GasGas is just plain better.

GasGas advantages IMO; Quicker more nimble handling, silky smooth hydraulic clutch, excellent parts from the factory that would normally have to be purchased after you bought the bike like an FMF pipe and silencer. Mine is a DE which means dealer edition and came with lots of extra bling.

Husky advantages; Better fit and finish, easier to work on, better high speed stability, better brakes, and an important one for me, tall man friendly.

I honestly think they are about even it just depends what you like and the price you pay. I don't know how the Huskies are but you can buy a used GasGas pretty cheap but the new Huskies are a deal too... go figure.
 
You correctly stated the reasons I love the Husky. I find the clutch on the small bore Husky very smooth and very hydraulic like without the disadvantage of a leak. I don't like the GG for the reason that the perimeter frame beats you to death and the seat bruises the crotch area. The GG engines run very well and the GG is a very capable machine. I just prefer the Husqvarna a whole like more. I also have found that once you get the suspension correctly balanced on the Husky that it carves a corner better than most bikes that I have ridden as well as being stable.
 
hammer said:
My wife also rides a 08 TXC450. So it was not mellow power or the small size, it's that the GasGas is light years ahead of the 2 stroke Husky. I had my first real ride on her bike today and I can tell you this thing is an incredible woods bike.
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Thats OK, to me they still feel like a japanese 125, maybe because I am 6' 2" and 300 lbs.
 
I love how there are 43 replies to this thread and only 10 on the 2012 4t topic. Long live the ring dings!
 
DVXC said:
I love how there are 43 replies to this thread and only 10 on the 2012 4t topic. Long live the ring dings!
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There's a four stroke forum? I hadn't noticed.
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This past weeken at the Last Man Standing event at Glen Helen Calif i would say there were more 2 strokes in the race then 4 strokes
I am sure there were more Husky 2 strokes there then Husky 4 strokes .Times are changing long live the 2 stroke
 
I dont mind the graphic update.. it's a shame they havent updated suspension and such.. whilst the rest of the world is going electric leg and all... I hope the price remains the same as last year LOL ..not!!
 
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