• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Road Racer (special build)

So far as I understand, under the proposed 450 series class rules here, only Honda, Yamaha, and Kawi 450's are homologated. However, since the Husky is sold here in sufficient numbers, no reason why it couldn't gain approval as well.

Now for one of our 65hp Highland 450's.......Tee, hee
 
they had a couple of them at Laguna seca usgp on display a Hon and I don't remember the other I think a kaw,,I think they were Rolands bikes.
 
Yeah, a Honda and a Kawi. And, yes, they are Rolands' bikes. I understand there are others being built by a few teams and they will be racing as an exhibition class at selected AMA pro-races in '09. At least that was the word in November, I think...

Frankly tho', I'm not sure what the point is, an SV650 can run circles around these singles at lower cost. Ditto of course for I4 600's. A spec class can easily be created around those. For that matter, on most technical tracks [read: shorter tracks], a well-prepped 450 Motard is really quick; why spend mucho dinero trying to make it look like a pukka GP bike??
 
Stapleking;14416 said:
Yeah, a Honda and a Kawi. And, yes, they are Rolands' bikes. I understand there are others being built by a few teams and they will be racing as an exhibition class at selected AMA pro-races in '09. At least that was the word in November, I think...

Frankly tho', I'm not sure what the point is, an SV650 can run circles around these singles at lower cost. Ditto of course for I4 600's. A spec class can easily be created around those. For that matter, on most technical tracks [read: shorter tracks], a well-prepped 450 Motard is really quick; why spend mucho dinero trying to make it look like a pukka GP bike??
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Good point!
 
MOTORHEAD;14356 said:
I like that little thing. I think Husqvarna ought to sell them, street legal.
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Buy the forks/wheels/brakes/fairings...and you have a street-legal bike, if it's a TE frame. It's all in the title work. The TE's are legal and you are using the same frame with the same VIN.

Add just enough lights to get it through inspection, and you have a winner. :thumbsup:
 
Yanni23;15210 said:
Buy the forks/wheels/brakes/fairings...and you have a street-legal bike, if it's a TE frame. It's all in the title work. The TE's are legal and you are using the same frame with the same VIN.

Add just enough lights to get it through inspection, and you have a winner. :thumbsup:
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That's pretty cool!....

But I still like it as a SM for hooligan riding... and it can whip the S%!$ out of most sportbikes in the twisties
 
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