• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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.

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HERMUNEN WINS SUPERMOTO GP OF BULGARIA ON SMR449

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HERMUNEN WINS SUPERMOTO GP OF BULGARIA ON SMR449
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It was a near perfect weekend for Husqvarna's Mauno Hermunen at the second round of the Supermoto World Championship held in Pleven in Bulgaria.
On his Husqvarna SMR449, Hermunen set the fastest time in qualifying and then took a hard-fought fourth place in race one, before going on to take victory in the following two races. These excellent results at the second Grand Prix of the season means that the Finnish member of the Factory Husqvarna Team is currently leading the championship by seven points over defending World Champion Thomas Chareyre, with Husqvarna also enjoying the same lead in the S1 Manufacturers' Championship.


"I would like to thank you the Husqvarna Team that did really a good job during these months – said Hermunen on the podium- the bike is great, and I am having so much fun on riding it!
 
It means a lot to me that he is able to win on the 2011 bike. You know they can make competitive power from the motor and the handling has to be good enough and you never know, that funky CTS might actually help like the marketing people say.
 
Sounds good to me also and from what gathered on this cts type suspension, the greatest gains are on dirt bikes where the swingarm has the large swings from top to bottom ... I asked why bmw never put this on their street bikes and the reply was that there is just alot of gain there as compared to dirt bikes so why bother? .... we'll see how this plays out in the future but so far, no one is having issues ... Having that linkage stuff on top of the SA has always looked good to me ...

Husky has been dominating this area for years on the previous model bikes so winning on the new ones might be close to critical for the SM teams ...
 
It's great to see the new Husky doing well. It doesn't hurt to have the fastest rider either.
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Nice vid, those guys are on it. Seems like the husky will carve the inside line hard.

BTW the CTS has real and tangible obvious advantages when used off road. There has been several time I was amazed at the traction i was getting on rough up hills. It does not get disrupted very EZ. Like you have amazing rear suspension. Always glued tot he ground, never really spinning much just driving forward. I think this is part of why the bike "feels" slow, the rear end is never hanging out.
 
they are actually racing on purpose built super-moto tracks now (with the paved whoops). The new chassis and riders at the top tier are all coming together well, these things take time and all the engineering and race team efforts are all ready paying off. @5 months into the new model year (all new model) and they have won an SM World Championship S1 race against KTM, TM, Hon top level teams with top tier SM (former world champs included) aint a bad showing(ha ha)
 
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