Man I hope these bikes get here soon. Starting to get twitchy waiting...
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Kamo on a Husky 449
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boisedave
Husqvarna
AA Class
A couple of interesting things from DK's report and my own non-professional observations:
1. There is very little armor on the bike. I wouldn't expect much to be available since its a new model that nobody has seen yet, but I find it interesting they are running a 250 mile race and don't feel compelled to fit something up.
2. They got the bike up to 2nd at one point. Seems like it must scoot along ok to me and handle half way decent.
3. DK mentioned the that they had to fill "two tanks." I get this -- there is a larger storage tank and a smaller tank with the fuel pump in it. Seems that the connection between the two is a bit of a limiting factor.
4. Fuel consumption must be pretty bad if they can't get 2.7 gallons to go 50 miles. I get at least 50 miles of wide open sand riding in my 2-stroke. Seems weird to me.
5. Again, Husky is putting too small a tank on their off road bikes. 50 miles is just not enough range for off road. What will the TE owners do? I hope there is an aftrmarket option soon.
1. There is very little armor on the bike. I wouldn't expect much to be available since its a new model that nobody has seen yet, but I find it interesting they are running a 250 mile race and don't feel compelled to fit something up.
2. They got the bike up to 2nd at one point. Seems like it must scoot along ok to me and handle half way decent.
3. DK mentioned the that they had to fill "two tanks." I get this -- there is a larger storage tank and a smaller tank with the fuel pump in it. Seems that the connection between the two is a bit of a limiting factor.
4. Fuel consumption must be pretty bad if they can't get 2.7 gallons to go 50 miles. I get at least 50 miles of wide open sand riding in my 2-stroke. Seems weird to me.
5. Again, Husky is putting too small a tank on their off road bikes. 50 miles is just not enough range for off road. What will the TE owners do? I hope there is an aftrmarket option soon.
this was at pro race pace int he Dez, I bet us mortals in the woods will get 70-80 miles to a tank.
gestion01
Husqvarna
A Class
I agree, having seen one up close a couple times, it has a lot of vulnerable pieces with no protection. Wiring more specifically.
No doubt I would have the sensor and wire coming out of the right radiator torn to pieces in an hour. They should ''rubber-ize'' these connections far more. Why have none of the engineers seen this?
Hello Guys
We have tested TE 449 for several hours in tuff conditions. Our importer have one testbike that travels around the country to all dealers. I had a demo day myself in pretty bad conditions with a lot of riders with different skills. And nothing broke on that bike. Works great.
Best regards Klas
We have tested TE 449 for several hours in tuff conditions. Our importer have one testbike that travels around the country to all dealers. I had a demo day myself in pretty bad conditions with a lot of riders with different skills. And nothing broke on that bike. Works great.
Best regards Klas
aya16
Husqvarna
A Class
Norman DNF'ED, was hurt I heard. Caselli walked his broken KTM a mile to finish 5th. Pearson must have skipped a lap, that dude came in 5 or more minutes a head of everyone, on his new honda, bet KTM MISSES HIM.
Mike