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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
it's annoying to get parts at best main dealer, I ordered a new gear shifter and 5 weeks later it turned up, it only had to come from italy/ sweden! I had bought a used one by then. Shame cos 2 strokes teach you so much as a rider and the oil tank/ pump was a bonus idea, so much easier than premixing, now ktm took over husky and the new road legal 125's are all premix, just the same as the ktm exc's, not even sure they'll do a tuned down street legal version for learners, it'll all be 30 hp plus. Plan for mine is fit this new piston providing it's the right size, see how long my oil pump works and then put a venhill single action throttle cable on, no more oil pump, also want to spray the wheels properly blue. You can thank the EU for even making the bikes have a cdi like that, all about emission control! My 07 rs was properly shit, beautiful thing, but the pistons kept going, the water pump impeller blew apart, the rear shock snapped, the throttle cable snagged and I had to push it thirteen miles home [no breakdown cover, bad idea] and because of emission aprilia did the cdi so it would bog down below 5500 rpm, and the pv opened at 6, so riding it was continously like torque ok here we go, wait, bog bog, bog, come on! bog! lets go ok here we go vroooom**************************************** vrooom! oh a corner, out of power, bog, bog...I had no idea about jetting back then but I'd have put on an arrow pipe and got the thing sorted, anyway I swapped it for a cagiva w8 2 stroke, same engine as mito, BIG mistake, it was worth maybe a third of my rs's value, and two weeks later the bottom end seized. Had no bike at all then, sold that for spares, then 2011 bought the husky with 5000 miles on it, best bike I've ever had 
I'll keep it even after it implodes and is beyond repair. I got it stuck down a byway in mud as deep as the top of my boot last xmas, had to leave it overnight but the next day freezing cold it started straight up! I also rode it for 160 miles in 4 hours, didn't miss a beat
