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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Check out my new FE501 with a plate!

Motosportz

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What? ...not what you expected??? he he he :D

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I get it, that's one of those new invisa-chains! You gotta thing for yellow bikes don't ya..
 
I could not pass it up. The box of stuff he gave me with the bike is worth 2x what I paid. He had much higher offers, he liked me and that I knew all about the bike. Long time owner moving and wanted it to go to a good home not just anybody. Funny.
 
Cool bike, but you will be working on it, if you keep it very long. I came very close a few times, but I always resisted the sirens' call of the single cam Husaberg, after watching a few friends struggle with them. VOR's are more reliable in my experience. A single cam Husky always seemed almost as good and easier to own. You have very good luck with used bikes, so you probably got a gem. When I finally give in... It will be a '07 or '08 FE450, with a 380 kit. Still would like a 70 Degree FE390 too! Ah.... Husabergs.:busted:
 
I broke probably a dozen swingarms on one of those.... I like the 02 FE501.... that chassis was awesome.... Didnt like my buddies FE390.....
 
Like being a matter of acknowledgement.......no I did not like that you broke swingarms, that must have really sucked, especially because to break one you must have been hammering the beast at the worst possible moment to have a failure like that......
 
Real cool Kelly.
I think they tended to be a little "troublesome" though. :thumbsup:
Good luck with it and keep us posted please.

BTW, I'm feeling good about my current 99 WR360 (orphan) rescue project. :)
Motosportz said:
I really like that vintage. Still light but more refined.
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Xcuvator said:
I think they tended to be a little "troublesome" though.
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I know, still could not pass it up. Bought it not running. Older dude and bike sat a long time. Got it running today and runs nice just like he said. Fun so far. Need to address a few more things before I feel good enough about it to take it out for a ride. Autocomp release makes it an EZ kicker.

Xcuvator said:
BTW, I'm feeling good about my current 99 WR360 (orphan) rescue project. :)
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I'm really glad you snagged that. :thumbsup:
 
my berg did not like whoops.... twice on "the whoops" in San Felipe and a whole mess of times in D37 races.... Never broke the motor just broke dwinarm in half and/or broke the center out....
 
very cool, you can see the strong swede in it still..
when was the last year they were still swedish? before they became a different version of ktm?
 
Great find, Kelly. I have absolutely fallen in love with my FE570. The motor and WR tranny are amazing. I still think my 511 is a better dirt bike handling wise but the 570 is very close.
I don't know if it's just because I've gotten so comfortable on my 511 or maybe it's the CTS, that things handles better than anything I've ever ridden and it's so easy to ride. Sorry for changing
the subject. Cool Bike.:thumbsup:
 
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