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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Finally Got A Scotts Damper for the 449

Huskynoobee

Huskynoobee

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I have held off for years as I never really thought I needed one, and frankly had never ridden with a damper. I had even raced it and only thought I had encountered a minor issue now and again. That is until I got my well sorted WR250 race bike with one attached to a 449 front end. So now I was a believer, but wasn't sure I needed to dump $500+ into my 5 year old orphan DS bike.

The last straw was at this year's Big Bear Dual Sport Ride where the roads on the hard way were strewn with baby head rocks that I knew damn good and well I could have sailed over on the 250. On the 449 they were trying their best (and doing a fine job) of trying to rip the bars out of my hands which caused lots of fatigue. I decided to go with the BRP submount installation just like the one on the 250 before I couldn't get one anymore. It took some time for my order to get done because they didn't have any towers in stock. I highly suggest that if you're in the same boat I was, that you don't wait until they are no longer available.

https://www.brpmoto.com/index.php/h...b-kit-b-08-13-husky-tc-txc-te-all-models.html

I've been too busy to even get it on yet, but I'll throw up a couple of pics when she's done. I have some opportunity to test it out this month between race weekends and setting up our club's Hare and Hound course and looking forward to it!
 
We bought KTM 690's where I immediately installed the Scott's damper. My wife valued the feeling of the KTM w/Scott's on babyheads, sand and roots - so she wanted one on her 2012 TE 310 and I said yes Dear. (Good idea to spend any amount of money needed to keep her wanting to ride...she asks for something for the Husky or KTM, she get's it....We leave next Wednesday for three weeks in the puckerbrush of central Idaho, going around the Salmon River basin - We are camping the whole trip......on both our bikes, I get something, she get's it installed on her bike too!) I ordered one for my 2012 TE 511 as well.

We both feel it made a big difference in the bikes' stability. You really feel a difference in sand, babyhead trails and wet roots. While my wife instigated spending another $Grand on the Husky bikes, given my experience, I wish we would have had them from the beginning.

We are both 60 and don't push things muchanymore - we still ride a lot of miles - but for trail riding and such - I feel the damper was a good investment for us.
 
Well after being strapped down like a damsel on the train tracks for weeks, I was able to carve out a little time to get it mounted. I THOUGHT I had done a complete inventory when I got the kit. After about an hour of careful filing to get the tower mount nice and flush, I went to install the sub mount bar clamp to the triple. Well wouldn't ya know it, no 75mm bolts for the clamp. Trip to Home Depot ended up with the correct bolts not in stock, but 70mm available. Came home and saw that in order for the nut to engage correctly, they indeed need to be 75mm. Screw it, I am going to burn a steak and empty a can or two and regroup tomorrow. Had I been more careful when I got the thing weeks ago, I would have noticed and avoided this...
 
Me too! I could contact BRP and whine about my bolts and they surely would send them. But to have them sent from Colorado takes too long. Hoping to get it back together this afternoon.
 
Looks good!


Now call them back and order a set of these :D


https://www.brpmoto.com/new-products/product/1507-brp-hand-guard-mounts-bmi-9254.html



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