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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 FS450
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Husqvarna
Theo
Husqvarna
AA Class
http://www.833team.com/en/ They use the new Husky 450 in the World and European Championship and they get pretty good results. I'd like to know how much their bikes've been modified; they don't seem much tuned in the photos.
I like the bike, except this feature: Husqvarna wrote, on the website: «The frame design is the same as the FC 450 motocross model.». I hoped for a supermoto specific design.
EDIT: Here there are some interesting pics, like these:
Is the fork a 4CS type? It looks like a usual closed cartridge WP.
I like the bike, except this feature: Husqvarna wrote, on the website: «The frame design is the same as the FC 450 motocross model.». I hoped for a supermoto specific design.
EDIT: Here there are some interesting pics, like these:
Is the fork a 4CS type? It looks like a usual closed cartridge WP.
No 4cs.
Theo
Husqvarna
AA Class
The reason for a specific frame is to get a specific flexibility, more suitable for the asphalt.
A guy with a KTM showed me some differences between the frame of his KTM SMR and the frame of the enduro KTM of the same year. There were a pair of sleeves welded to make it stiffer and the triple clamps were more distant from each other, to make the fork more rigid.
Anyway, most of the riders here use CRFs with different clamps, shortened swigarm, etc. but with the original frame; many of them are fast.
Apparently, it's not a must to go fast! (Notice the rhyme
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Lately, here many CRF owner've switched to TM, which have a specific SM frame. They say that TMs are better on the asphalt and worse on the dirt, but maybe it's also due to other differences.
A guy with a KTM showed me some differences between the frame of his KTM SMR and the frame of the enduro KTM of the same year. There were a pair of sleeves welded to make it stiffer and the triple clamps were more distant from each other, to make the fork more rigid.
Anyway, most of the riders here use CRFs with different clamps, shortened swigarm, etc. but with the original frame; many of them are fast.
Apparently, it's not a must to go fast! (Notice the rhyme
).Lately, here many CRF owner've switched to TM, which have a specific SM frame. They say that TMs are better on the asphalt and worse on the dirt, but maybe it's also due to other differences.
Alberto
Husqvarna
AA Class
What is 4CS? in the article it says: WP suspension ensures the finest damping comes as standard on the FS 450. The fully adjustable 48mm closed cartridge front forks – with supermoto-specific settings – provide 280mm of travel. When paired with WP’s high performance rear shock they ensure precision and consistency in all conditions.