• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 this bike with frame issues!

Irrefutible proof that Huskies are the ONLY bikes that have frame issues****************************************!
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Should that say 'aren't' ??:)

There was a vid of a Kawi KX out there somewhere with a similar issue, except it broke the steering head right off the frame...ouch!
 
knobbytired said:
Should that say 'aren't' ??:)
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I believe so. I've seen a few of those videos from other brands.

Before I change the title, has there been some similar breakage in a Husqvarna? I've not seen any... Yes I am aware of other occasional things like muffler tabs being weak, but not what is shown in the video.
 
KTM had a little test ride at Mill Creek MX a year or 2 ago. Frame broke at steering head, rider hurt. *%it happens.
 
BadMotoWeazal said:
...*%it happens.
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It sure does...

I will forget about this thread if I don't do something...
Original title:
"Irrefutible proof that Huskies are the ONLY bikes that have frame issues****************************************!"
Lets try this title (again I've not seen any major frame issues at all on a Husqvarna)
"Check out this bike with frame issues!"
 
some frame issues i've had:
'03 cr250r: cracked at head
'04 cr250r: cracked at head, cracked spars
'00 klx300: never stopped cracking and breaking all over the place
'89 kx125: shock mount, snapped off
'88 or '87 rm125: lower cradle snapped at weld

list goes on...

stuff breaks....inspect your frames and hard points on a regular basis. like every time you go to use it.

the neck ya save may be yer own.
 
a quick addition, torque all your hardware to factory (SAE or other) specs. At a glance he has the other crack on LH lower, who knows what "they" did to the triple prior to catastrophic failure (over or under torque).
 
Thats about the 6th KTM clamp I have seen snap there. They just had a recall on bar mounts snapping as well. Lightness is not free. That said all bikes have issues.
 
99% of clamp failures ive seen are caused by gorilla-wrench.

i have a man locally that welds them, yes, welds them. seen a lot of clamps saved that way!
 
pvduke said:
99% of clamp failures ive seen are caused by gorilla-wrench.

i have a man locally that welds them, yes, welds them. seen a lot of clamps saved that way!
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Don't think I could ride with confidence if the triples were welded. I know the weld is usually stronger that the material being welded, but still it would be in the back of my mind.
 
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