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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Cool! Waiting with anticipation and $$$$$ that is burning a hole in my pocket
I rode it around on my small practice track and up and down the driveway and was really surprised at how good it was running. No popping on decel but not a hint of over richness. So it was off for a 25+ mile gravel loop that I can make from my driveway. Very good throttle response and rock solid idle after getting it good and hot
My butt dyno says it has more roll on power and a stronger top end but it is hard to say but the bike is for sure running smother and seems happier. I did have a flame out or two when going slow in the trees on my practice track but it may be due to my timidness because of my sore ribs. A buddy of mine (Cliff) rode it for quite awhile in the same places with no flame outs.
I received the latest version of the four stroke
Lectron a couple of weeks ago to replace my RB Designs FCR 41 but have been a little slow getting it installed because of and bad wreck that involved broken ribs and a collapsed lung.
Anyway, yesterday I decided to put it on my TE450 because it is much easier/faster to work on because of all the junk I have on the 610 like the IMS tank with it's 5 fuel lines :-). My 450 and 610 share almost exactly the same FCR jetting so I thought why not do the tuning on the 450 then put it on the 610?
So after putting it on I hung my small tuning gas tank on the handle bars and was prepared to make a needle adjustment or two before putting the real gas tank on but mush to my surprise after an idle adjustment and 3/4 of a turn on the air bleed she was purring like a kitten at idle and reving effortlessly with no black smoke.
Oh and I traded bikes with Cliff when riding the gravel loop yesterday and had a hell of a time getting the bike back.
I'm anxious to talk to Kevin at Lectron to find out what makes this carb different from the last one I tried.
More to follow after more riding but I think Kevin has hit one out of the park
) and a screaming top end especially after opening the high speed a half turn to 1 1/4 turns out. I may try another quarter turn rich on the metering rod because it is a little more popping on decel than I like but the idle returns quickly and is rock solid.
on this!