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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

BIKE RECOVERED! What's left that is...

pahusky

pahusky

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Wrecked on the mean streets of Harrisburg Sept. 24th. The city police had it towed as abandoned and I just got it back. Really, really long story involving city police, State Police, auto theft divisions and the DEA and no closer to finding out who cut the locks.The kid got up and ran away; amazing after looking at the bike.Not sure if I want to try to scrape some parts together and get it whole or just part it out. I have the new, take off rear sprocket and chain, have another set of stock bars, some plastic but not all, also have stock takeoff exhaust system. The rear sub-frame is toast, not sure of frame. I have the ’12, may pull the sub frame and see if the frame is bent. First I’m taking the motor out to Toy Tech to get checked out and see how bad it is.

Son's KTM200 still out there...

Anyway if you don’t want to get pissed, don’t look at the following pictures!

One 'before' shot...



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What a bummer...hopefully it's insured...these damn punks, I've seen them crash things so bad a just walk away, if it was you or I we would be in the hospital or dead
 
that's brutal mate, sorry to hear/see. those bars look like ape hangers now!:eek:hopefully karma catch up with these punks ten fold
 
...I just threw up... I guess I shouldn't have looked, like you warned. I hope they don't give up looking for the bastards...
 
As I look around and start to dig in more I'll see what else I find...like the destroyed full Pro Circuit system.

The stock handlebars took a hit and actually bent with no kinks or cracks; tough.



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looking at the wear on the rear tire the motor must of seen a lot of hard on the street miles.Can't think the motor would be solid long term.Take drive through north Philly and see how many quads/dirt bikes are running the streets.I would guess 90% stolen.At what off road bikes cost these days it's a hard pill to swallow.
 
Well least you got it back if insurance didn't cover it. I think the only thing insured any more is Quad if only used for Farm stuff?
Check with your tax guy cause all the stuff it needs might be tax deductible?
Friend had his stolen. They rode heck out of it and got scared. Then put it in a Waste Management dumpster and when they emptied dumpster in truck. They crushed it.
 
Yea, there's a demand and our garages are full of supply.

Was not insured and not covered by home owners. For loss write-off has to be over 10% of you filing income, that's not going to work. They are all insured now. I have State Farm for the house and autos, but Progressive basic coverage that includes theft was $68/year/machine for the '12 TXC250 and a '12 KTM 250XC.

I was surprised the rear tire was not bald down the middle from burnouts. It was pretty shot from an enduro in Pa. coal country when stolen so I'm not sure how many mean miles were put on it. I will get the motor checked and go from there. The guy actually put new grips on it!

I like the lead on the Jersey rolling frame, anybody else got a source for bikes being parted out? Need that rear sub frame! plus a 'few' other things...

Andy won't even look at it...
 
Front disc / rotor is different in the before and after pics ! Was this changed by the scum or was is done by yourself ?
That poor thing sure took one huge hit and I hope the rider hurt himself REAL bad.
 
johnny, good catch. I had to think about it and could not remember...but apparently we did it.

The boy is rough on stuff, too many things to remember.


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Its a gut rotting feeling when $hit like that happens, A good few years back I came home from work to find my truck had somehow been pulled / towed away from my garage door and all my bikes had gone and all my remote controled helicopters ect that alone were worth a good amount of money but the most hurtfull part was the peewee 50 I had bought my son for Xmas was also taken.
Only thing I ever got back was a 1988 KX500 that appeared for sale at a local bike shop around 18 months later. Cr125 a YZ250 and a old BSA C15 that I had rebuilt never ever reapeared GUTTED to sat the least .
 
I guess 68 dollars a bike doesnt look so bad now that youve had two go missing.
That sucks and the bikes fairly beat up, time to fabricate a custom frame with old style scrambler looks ..
 
Sucks but you got it back .... The kick-starter is missing also and that might be an issue.

Looking at all the cloned Huskies that are showing up has made me realize there is not alot of unique Husky parts on a bike after the frame and engine. Even then, if the frame is good, you have a fighting-chance at having a good ride-able bike again. Still sucks though ...
 
looking at the wear on the rear tire the motor must of seen a lot of hard on the street miles.Can't think the motor would be solid long term.Take drive through north Philly and see how many quads/dirt bikes are running the streets.I would guess 90% stolen.At what off road bikes cost these days it's a hard pill to swallow.

I agree with Joe, looks like some one did a ton of road burn outs, probably all at full throttle.. My Father has he Honda Civic
stolen & the A holes just trashed the interior... string them up...
 
Sad thing about this whole thing is that the local cops probably won't do a thing about it. They likely expended more effort in making you prove it was yours than they ever will to catch the shit bag who rode it like he stole it.
 
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