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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Dirt rider TXC 450 review

I8AKTM

I8AKTM

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hopefully this isn't old news, but did a quick search for Dirt Rider and turned up nothing...


My son got the latest issue (March) and on the cover it says something about dream rides, and lists the 450 TXC. I thought cool!

The article was written by Karel Kramer. He test rode Glenn Kearney's bike, then raced one prepped by Glenn's mechanic in a GNCC. Good things were said. Overall I think a very nice positive read for someone thinking about their next bike choice.:thumbsup:

Only oddity I found was this snippet: "All five gears are nicely spaced...." :confused: :excuseme: Unless the factory TXC's don't use the 6 speed gearbox? Don't know.


paul
 
Just got it today, but have not had a chance to read it.

Since it is a discussion about a published article / review - I'll put this thread in the Newsroom.

Main -> Newsroom
 
Sorry about that- you'd think as much time as I spend on here I'd know where to post stuff. :)
 
Please please please don't worry about it, I'm still sorting out what should go where & why.


You should see some clarification in some forums soon - I've been waiting to see how the site morphs as opposed to creating categories and making up 'strange & convoluted' thread placement rules.

I'm a member of a wide variety of forums and there is some strange forum setups on the internet... If I can't figure out what & where to post without someone getting mad at me it's gotta be tough for the average internet user especially if they are new to forums.
 
The mags continuously print bad info on huskys because they know little about them. They do not say CRF on the side so it is an odd bike to them.

K
 
To sum it all up, he says:

"The bike is largely stock....Yet it remains a world class off-road racer that impressed the heck out of me."
 
Maybe he was so used to riding bikes with a 5 speed gear box, it never dawned on him to click the shifter up one more time :lol:
 
Ruffus;17517 said:
Maybe he was so used to riding bikes with a 5 speed gear box, it never dawned on him to click the shifter up one more time :lol:
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:lol:

That's ok Karel, we understand :thumbsup:




EDIT - This was by far the most complementary article I've seen in a while especially coming from a die hard KTM guy. Based on the pics Karel is not a small guy, no need to lower a bike for him:
The absence of serious modification to the TXC is the most impressive point of my test. The bike is largely stock with most mods being added for protection, a search for quicker pit stops or personal preference comfort tweaks. Yet if remains a world-class off-road racer that impressed the heck out of me.
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Then it lists one of out own sponsors - 7602 as a parts supplier :cheers:
 
Then it lists one of out own sponsors - 7602 as a parts supplier
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Sweet! I'm famous. MTV will probably be doing an episode of "Cribs" on me soon. Ohhhh crap, I better wash the mud off the truck and get all the hay out of the bed so I look pimpin.:busted:
 
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