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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

good mud tire???

The guys in Michigan swear by the S12 or the Starcross - they always have to deal with that wet topsoil stuff for months while the spring (summer) thaw occurs.

We dont have dirt here - just rocks...so I dont really ever have to deal with it.
 
I use Mitas C19 Cross Country (yellow) - front, Mitas C18 Super Light (green) - rear. Grip in soft terrain is better, than my previous Michelin Enduro Competition IV + IIIe and Dunlop MX51.
 
I always use S12 on the front and until recently the rear too, just changed to MS3 as hoping it will be slightly harder wearing. Few rides in and very pleased with the MS3, good grip on a variety of conditions including mud, hard pack is a bit slippery but then most tyres which are good in the mud are.
 
I always use S12 on the front and until recently the rear too, just changed to MS3 as hoping it will be slightly harder wearing. Few rides in and very pleased with the MS3, good grip on a variety of conditions including mud, hard pack is a bit slippery but then most tyres which are good in the mud are.


How is the durability of the MS3? I LOVE the S12 - my favorite tires for sure, but the Ozarks are just too hard on them. We would have guys come for Blackjack events and ruin a set (front and rear) in one long course event. That gets to be a spendy hobby if you swap tires every ride!
 
I'm a big fan of the S12XC's ( one up fron the regular S12's) , but these look new M12XC's
copied from biker bandit;
Designed to maximize traction with a new rear rubber mixture that improves durability by at least 25-30% over Michelin’s S12 and M12 tire. Larger-diameter beads and thicker bead filler area help make sidewalls more rigid than before, which improves feedback. Additional thin casing ply under the tread helps improve traction and feel, and speeds warm-up time. Intermediate tires provide dependable traction and steering in mixed conditions and feature widely spaced knobs to shed mud quickly.
 
How is the durability of the MS3? I LOVE the S12 - my favorite tires for sure, but the Ozarks are just too hard on them. We would have guys come for Blackjack events and ruin a set (front and rear) in one long course event. That gets to be a spendy hobby if you swap tires every ride!

Can't really say much about wear but have done 4 hours racing on intermediate ground and still good, slight wear on leading edge. S12's would be showing definite signs of wear by now. I too love the S12 but used them in anything but mud and grass and they will disintegrate pretty quick.
 
We use Dunlop MX 51's in every condition, and are trying the AT81's this season.
We race Hare Scrambles and Enduros in WI, IL and IN.
 
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