• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

FE/FC Lighting-Headlights

J

jongenus

Husqvarna
Curious to see if anybody has any info on after market headlamps. Looking at Baja Designs xl and squadron models. Within each of those models they have a "pro" and a "sport" version with the pro having considerably more lumens. Obviously brighter is better but curious to know if the pro versions are overkill. Any input from first hand experience is much appreciated.

Here's the link to 4 lights I'm looking at if anybody wants to check the spec's.

http://www.bajadesigns.com/products/motorcycle-products/led-motorcycle-lighting
 
I have the XL pro, it's a huge step up from stock obviously. The light is well made and Baja Designs stands behind their products. The way the lights are sold there is no "high" or "low" beam, just on and off (off is the factory "low beam position", on is the "high beam".) This is where the overkill may come in. Off-road its extremely effective with the beam pattern and brightness being optimal. On the street at night is where the it may pose a problem. The light is so bright you'll blind oncoming traffic. I've "heard" there is an add-on you can purchase that will dim the light when in the low beam position, but have no first hand experience. The instal is relatively easy, however I had to mod to the supplied plastic brackets in order to aim the light in a more downward position. About a 10 minute process.
 
Might also check out Motominded.com. Some guys in Colorado using 3-d printers to make the mounting brackets for Baja Designs products. True plug and play.

I bought from them a 2 light rig for my KTM 690. Uses a 2 LED unit for the low beam and then a 4-LED Squadron Pro and the 2 LED unit for high beam. This way you can aim the two LED unit so it does not blind people, while having the 4-LED torch to reach out a long way. It is a real improvement over stock and uses a lot less juice so I can run the heated grips, etc.

The guys at Motominded were very helpful - they had a discount for Adventure Rider forum members.
 
Another option is to replace the bulb with a cyclops LED. Very bright and works, which is what i did, but then I am no professional racer.:)
 
Thanks for the feedback, I've also heard just replacing the bulb can be a significant improvement. Will probably go that route to begin with to save a few bucks.
 
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