• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Excel Wheels

what is your preference...........

  • Total voters
    45
  • Poll closed .
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Husqvarna
B Class
Okay who likes the newer black Excel wheels and who likes the silver/aluminum Excel wheels????
 
I love the look of my new black Excel wheels, but I voted for silver. The silver wheels will look good a few years down the road, but my black wheels are going to look like crap once I start riding in my beloved rocks and changing tires.



WoodsChick
 
Yes, black sharpies are the remedy. But the black SM wheels are sweet. Thats why I have them for my SM610 road shoes and the stock Silver SM610 for the dirt shoes.
 
PALMER84ONE;87076 said:
Yes, black sharpies are the remedy. But the black SM wheels are sweet. Thats why I have them for my SM610 road shoes and the stock Silver SM610 for the dirt shoes.
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Oh yeah...if I had black wheels on my dirty SM they would look like total crap by now. The silver ones look like crap if you look closely, but the damage isn't nearly as apparent as it would be on black:)



WoodsChick
 
I agree with WoodsChick. The Black rims look great from the showroom floor. However they mark and scratch very quickly. Tyre changes are brutal on them. The silver ones hide a multitude of sins, well from a distance anyway.
 
WoodsChick;87011 said:
I love the look of my new black Excel wheels, but I voted for silver. The silver wheels will look good a few years down the road, but my black wheels are going to look like crap once I start riding in my beloved rocks and changing tires.



WoodsChick
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I agree with WoodsChick. I have silver on my old Husky but wanted black. After hearing about sharpies I am just gonna stick with the silver.
 
anytime I want to take the fog and scratches out of my silver wheels, I just hit them up with a buffer and some abrasive, "very light abrasive". Then they shine like diamonds, I was polishing my swing arm yesterday, "made it look like a mirror (-:
 
I had my silver rims off my Trials bike powder coated black years ago.

The sides of the rims were taking some good scraps over time from riding, changing tires etc. So I got an abrasive sand cloth wheel for my Dremel and spent some time polishing the black off the sides off the rim.
Turned out OK.:thumbsup: I see a lot of newer bikes now coming with that look too. I've had my 510 rims black for a while now and when I get some free time will be doing the same to that one.:D

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