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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Improved 2014 GasGas motorcycles

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Was chatting with a friend who is pretty deep in the industry and way into bikes and modifications. Used to be a big KTM fan and moved to concentrating on GG a few years ago. Sold piles of 2011's and then not many 2012/2013 as he said there were to many issues with the bikes. He said he has been working on the new 2014's and they are a much improved bike. Was good to hear because they dont seem to have done to well in the last 2 years and I like the brand and always like more choices. He does a lot of development and gets WAY into it. He has a decked out 2011 300 that I have spoke to a few people that have rode it and say it is amazing. Anyway seems GG might be on the way back which I like to hear. Here is his comments from our conversation and responses to my questions...

- New frame and subframe and good weight reduction
- New fasteners and much better build quality and EZer to work on
- New Reiger shock which he says is a work of art internally and works fantastic
- Better steering geometry
- Much better wiring loom
- Drastically improved engine

wish them the best with it.

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I actually like them and am really interested to see what they do with the Husky stuff they bought. Sherco and Beta are still at the top of the list though. Hopefully GasGas uses the 310 to compete with the. Sherco 300 4 stroke
 
I've been hot for them too ever since I read reviews about how their 2 strokes have a nice even power delivery with lots 'o grunt. Supposedly a great trail/enduro bike. But I think they priced themselves out of the market.
 
I have a 2012 EC300, once dialled in, straightened out the subframe and air box issues it is pretty amazing. The front in does what ever you want. Think it and it will do it! The motor lugs beautifully, climbs nice and screams like an F1 engine when you ask. The bike is just too tall and has too much motor for the novice that I am.
 
Ken Hynes said:
The bike is just too tall and has too much motor for the novice that I am.
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They must have really changed things as mine above was low (see the tall seat I put on it) and had a mild motor with good power but lots of nice flywheel effect making it EZ to control.
 
Motosportz said:
They must have really changed things as mine above was low (see the tall seat I put on it) and had a mild motor with good power but lots of nice flywheel effect making it EZ to control.
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In 2012 they put a couple inches in the frame, after the subframe mod the seat height is just short of 39", the motor is still as you describe, but with 300 cc I couldn't ring it out if I wanted to......and I want to! The magura clutch is sweet, sure makes life easy up & down hills.
 
Buddy Adam was riding my 511 one day and got off it and said "I really like that bike, wish they made it in a 350". Maybe GG could build a 350/400 based on this motor in uncorked mode. That would be nice.
 
I've never rode a GG, or even sat on one, but I always thought they were sweet looking bikes. I remember stopping at the GG dealer in Albany on the way home from a ride to check them out, dang I wanted one. :)
 
only GG go faster i ever rode was a 97 250 and it was kicka$$ BTW sw mo has a new GG dealer LSK in Lebanon gott'em in stock a 250 k/s demo for 5600 otd and some red huskies te630 te511/449 tc449 tc250 one 310 and one terra and Springfield powersports just picked up Beta and Husky to:thumbsup:
 
Rumor is they will have a model with the 449 motor in it!
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Are you talking about the BMW 449 motor? The rumor I heard said that GAS GAS acquired the 450 x-lite based motor that was supposedly in development. I sure would love to see the CTS get a second chance at life with GG.
 
I had an '04 EC300 I bought for my son to ride. The motor on that thing was a tractor. Really liked how it pulled. It felt like it had two powervalves b/c the power would step up twice through the revs to me. The few times I rode it, I just could not come to terms with the ergos and handling. The rider compartment felt small to me and the bike felt long. I rode a friend's '12 EC300 and it felt pretty much the same other than the rider compartment felt a little bigger. Same long, slow feeling handling.
My son really liked it and it would pull from 3rd gear in almost any situation and he didn't have to shift much. Was a bit a pain to start. The older kickstarters were pretty short and it took a healthy boot to spin it. I have several friends that ride them and love em. They are a great option and its nice to have options.
 
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