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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Baja 4000 On A 2008 Sm450r

J

jcooper

Husqvarna
C Class
Am I stupid? Should I just buy the right bike?
I am thinking about using my SM450R for the Baja 4000. I think I can get a Safair Tank that will extend my distance but I'm not sure about the shorter swing arm and stiffer suspension? Has anyone been able to put regular dirt/dual sport tires on an SMR or is there not enough room.
Just trying to flesh out the idea and not go to the trouble/expense of adding one more bike to the fleet! Can you guys let me know your thoughts....should I just buy another bike or can I get the right parts to make my bike work?
I would love your input and ideas.
Thanks!
 
I tried my SM610 ( i know it's different from the 450/510 models )
I put some DS tires on it and took it on and ADV weekend trip.
Looks of gravel to rocky broken up two track stuff.
The suspension beat the hell out of me. even on the softest settings.
FWIW.
 
I ran a 2007 smr510 at a local dual sport way back when. I bolted up a 21" front wheel and ran a 17" adventure tire on the rear. Lack of suspension was noticable. I used the sm front rotor. talk about 1 finger braking. It was a 300 mile event. For 4000 miles? I wouldn't
 
starting to lean toward your basic XR650R tank. They are super cheap and I don't have to sell my SMR to make it happen:)
 
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