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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

GPR exhaust

bikehunter said:
I would love to own one like that reddin, sure is a gorgeous machine. She must be missing her home land in Blighty and I am a great foster parent .
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Thank you kindly sir. I chased her down for about 4 -5 years and persistence paid off. She is in good hands now. If i am ever in need of a foster parent for her, I will look you up!
 
Went on my first reasonable ride this morning with the new system fitted. It was wet after a heavy storm from yesterday, so I new I'd had to wash her down afterwards but it was worth the effort.
Was also a bit chilly and we are still a little above freezing in England so no salt on the roads as yet.
The ride consisted of speeds from 30 to 9$ and the exhaust sounded a peach, you can really go down to 2000 rpm and pull away nicely in top gear, what an improvement to this bike, so much nicer to live with and wondered why its not the done thing but each to their own!
I an now concerned that the Husky will be used more than the other bikes that I own and they will be sat in the garage deteriorating slowly. Still will know more next year, may even sell a couple and get the Terra as a second machine :thinking:
 
I've had the pipes for a few months now. They have a nice little growl with the baffles in when revving, are louder than stock, and generate deeper sound, although I wish they were a little bit louder. Yesterday I've taken out the baffles to see how the bike sounds, and it sounds FREAKING AWESOME. The bike is much louder, generates an awesome snarl while pulling in the clutch and up-shifting, and like I said it's loud, a little bit too loud for my ear drums. The pipes also look nice and flush on the bike (Strada + 2 black Furore cans.) One thing that's bugging me is the riveted metal tag that is on the cans that says "only for racing". When I purchased the pipes they said that they were road legal in the UK, yet they put that tag on. With the baffles removed, my chances of getting pulled over for them have increased, and with those tags I'm just asking to get a ticket. Is there any safe way of taking them off without damaging the pipes?

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Pulled the db killer on mine two times to be sure, way too loud, worse than the full Ti Acro system on my 640 SM from days past.
 
nycrider said:
I've had the pipes for a few months now. They have a nice little growl with the baffles in when revving, are louder than stock, and generate deeper sound, although I wish they were a little bit louder. Yesterday I've taken out the baffles to see how the bike sounds, and it sounds FREAKING AWESOME. The bike is much louder, generates an awesome snarl while pulling in the clutch and up-shifting, and like I said it's loud, a little bit too loud for my ear drums. The pipes also look nice and flush on the bike (Strada + 2 black Furore cans.) One thing that's bugging me is the riveted metal tag that is on the cans that says "only for racing". When I purchased the pipes they said that they were road legal in the UK, yet they put that tag on. With the baffles removed, my chances of getting pulled over for them have increased, and with those tags I'm just asking to get a ticket. Is there any safe way of taking them off without damaging the pipes?

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Just drill out the two rivets, remove tag and put in new rivets. Cost, $.25
 
isldtime said:
Pulled the db killer on mine two times to be sure, way too loud, worse than the full Ti Acro system on my 640 SM from days past.
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I love the beefier idle sound on it. It's extremely loud when revving fast and engine-breaking at 1st or 2nd (popping is unbearable.) That's why for the time being I'm discontinuing hard revving and minimizing engine-breaking.
 
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