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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

any plans for a youth bike other than the automatics?

WHITEROCKET5.9

WHITEROCKET5.9

Husqvarna
AA Class
Id like to get my son on a husky but the autos were a lil pricey for what they are. Hes currently learning on a 02 kx60 wich is a great bike for the price i paid and pretty dang quick but like i said would like to get him a husky pretty soon if they have em.
 
true that. got the kawi for 200 less than the husky and 400 less than the ktm i was looking at (non of them new bikes). its better anyway hes learning to shift as he learns to ride so he dont have to figure it out later.
 
I'm currently rebuilding a 2001 KX65 for my son Logan... how has the shifting practice gone so far for you White Rocket?

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were up to 3rd gear now and he can pull the clutch in and stop it and take off most of the time where he wants(clutch lever is about the same as a full sized one it seems). its kind of a slow process with this being his first bike. hes only 7 and rite at 4ft maybe 45-50lbs wet so the bike is a lil much for him but hes catching on nicely....he had a wheelie that beat the hell out of anythign i ever did but the lil guy finally looped er out after about 45-50ft lol we started at just letting the clutch out and runnin it in 1st gear then we moved up to shifting from 1st to 2nd and this last week up to 3rd. its been about 1 1/2-2 months or so worth of riding when hes at my house after school. we have a big fairly flat piece of land he can go and not have to worry bout hitting anything. a lil longwinded there but to get to the point hes not jammin gears up and down yet but hes gettin there. i think the hardest thing with the kids is they cant feel the shifter and brake lever with the riding boots on.
 
I saw a photo of a Husky 65. Not sure when and if we will get them. Remember you get what you pay for. I knew of a guy who rode KX 125's and after 2-3 clutches, piston's etc... Switched to a Husky 125. Bingo problems gone!
 
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