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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

husky bmw hybrid

First and foremost....I am not a Husky owner. I have a 200cc GasGas in my stable, which I really have enjoyed over the years.

I have been following this thread very closely and truely enjoy the "chatter". You guys are very luckly to have Husky brass involved to answer some really tough questions that pertain to the new bike.

Good luck wiith the new bike.....

If I was to jump ship....I see a WR125

Rick
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Hey Scot, the new bike looks stellar, however my question is a little off topic. Seeing as how it appears, for 2011 Husky will be moving on completely from the current generation 310/450/510 platform, do you have any insight into whether or not BMW/Husqvarna will still support the older models in terms of parts. Parts availablity as of now is mediocre at best and with the arrival of newer BMW based hardware I wonder if those of us who own older Huskys will be left out in the cold? Thanks in advance!
 
gestion01;93004 said:
This is how you change the front sprocket on the bmw. I suspect it will be the same on the bmw...oups! I mean Husky. hii hii. :D

http://www.motoverte.com/site/video-changez-votre-pignon-de-450-bmw--37548.html
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They're slow, too much jibber jabber and there is a trick to getting the left side pivot cap off faster, but only saves 30 seconds or so if that much only for the fact that there is a lot of thread to spin off. Using an impact driver (for disassembly only) helps with that as well. For re-assembly I don't trust power tools,............or the finger on them.
 
fitness2go;93016 said:
I was waiting for the guy to bust open a bottle of wine, some crackers and cheese half way through.
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we'll just have to do drink Gregs yummy home brew beer next fall when I drag one of these to Belfair for us all to ride :thumbsup:
 
gestion01;93004 said:
This is how you change the front sprocket on the bmw. I suspect it will be the same on the bmw...oups! I mean Husky. hii hii. :D

http://www.motoverte.com/site/video-changez-votre-pignon-de-450-bmw--37548.html
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Thanks! :thumbsup:

I'm not sure that would be the video to show people to encourage them that the CS is not an issue however. Really long, hard to follow in some areas, jumping around, although the photography itself was awesome. French is not my language either...

If anyone is curious - mirrors and lighting can make a *huge* difference. Then both sides could be seen at the same time. But those types of things are a bit time consuming to setup.

Arod, feel free to give it a shot, but you could wind up spending much time doing a decent video. Ideally things like that would be at least partially funded by the company because, in my humble opinion, it really would help sales if done correctly.
 
Scot,

Do you have ball park figures for seat height and ready to ride weight?

Thanks for being here,
Walt

PS, any little tid bits on future 2T models would be readily devoured.
 
great post to quiet ,the big issues with the cs sprocket . it doesnt seem like any major deal in my book of backyard mechanical procedures.. after one or 2 procedures to get used to it, it seems like a 15-30 min job.
 
This is a great thread! So glad we have the ear of some of the Husky Brass, I hope we don't scare him away with some of our pessimistic opinions! I'm super excited for this new bike, I think the leap forward in technology and innovation far out way the minor increase in service difficulty. With mass centralization comes more compact motor/chassis space and therefore tighter working room. Putting the linkage on top of the swing arm is brilliant, the air box up and out of the dirt and dust is great, external fuel pump for ease of adapting aftermarket fuel tanks e-start etc. These are the high maintenance areas that you work on every day. I would happily spend an extra 15 min to swap out a CS sprocket a few times a year tops to get the benefits of the CS in line with swing arm pivot. I didn't watch the CS video posted but it only takes a few minutes to pull the swing arm pivot bolt and pull the swing arm back enough to pop on a new CS so I don't see this as a deal breaker. Also, think of all the time you save changing air filters far less often and few times greasing linkage pivots now that they are not dragging through the muck.

Keep up the innovation Scot and pushing things forward. As said already, the design needs to evoke emotion and it certainly does! No offense to others out there but I think the current Husky loyalists are mostly older folks who tend to be a bit more nostalgic and maybe less willing to embrace change and progression. In my opinion, Husky needs to take a leap like this to shake things up and announce it is serious about taking on KTM head to head. This is the bike to do that. The old ones are awesome and I still lust for 2010 TC250 for it's sexy Italian looks but I WANT that new 450!
 
cbreakin;93014 said:
Hey Scot, the new bike looks stellar, however my question is a little off topic. Seeing as how it appears, for 2011 Husky will be moving on completely from the current generation 310/450/510 platform, do you have any insight into whether or not BMW/Husqvarna will still support the older models in terms of parts. Parts availablity as of now is mediocre at best and with the arrival of newer BMW based hardware I wonder if those of us who own older Huskys will be left out in the cold? Thanks in advance!
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Of course we are not going to stop making parts for the old bikes. That would be silly not to mention just bad business. There have been a number of favorable developments on the parts issue in recent months. I'm not saying we are complely out of the woods but it is getting better. I'll leave the parts discussion for another thread. Suffice it to say that we will continue to carry parts for the older bikes.
 
wallybean;93023 said:
Scot,

Do you have ball park figures for seat height and ready to ride weight?

Thanks for being here,
Walt

PS, any little tid bits on future 2T models would be readily devoured.
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Although the final production settings aren't finalized Seat height is similar to the current model as is overall weight although I can tell you that the bike feels much lighter because:

1.) centralization of mass/ultra slim ergonomics
2.) engine power is much stronger and more immediate.
3.) traction system is amazing in how it delivers power to the ground and no chain snatch lag in delivery.

Regarding two strokes, there is work being done in this area as well but frankly with everything else that is going on(new 250fs, new 630s, new 450s) we are still a couple of years away from any major changes. Look for refinements and improvements to current model series.
 
Do any of you guys in the Southern California area think you could get an old out of work actor for the how too films? A female friend suggested Ron Jeremy but I don't think he is the mechanical type?
 
He's only good with one tool. :censored:

Joe Chod;93082 said:
Do any of you guys in the Southern California area think you could get an old out of work actor for the how too films? A female friend suggested Ron Jeremy but I don't think he is the mechanical type?
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I have never changed a CS sprocket because of wearing.

On my 98 Xr400 I changed it when the bike was new and it was still on the bike when i sold it. on my 08TE510 I changed it shortly after buying the bike, and expect it to last a long time.

Not to much mud here, probably helping it to last.




Husky Relic;92897 said:
Slowpoke;92892 said:
Your points are well taken but I don't really understand the issue about the countershaft sprocket. I haven't changed a countershaft sprocket in 10 years once I have the correct one installed for the type of riding I do. After that it is a question of which rear sprocket to run. I see this as a one time operation and done. Maybe your riding is different. For me its simply is not an issue. By the way the last time I fouled a sparkplug on a four stroke on the trail was in the early 90's. The issues you bring up are issues that existed more in the 70's and 80s not recently.

I do understand that there are special circumstances and rare occassions that this may come into play. It would be the rare exception rather than the norm. Fortunately we still make a bunch of other models without this feature for you to choose from.

Thanks again for the inpout.
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