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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

MAUNO HERMUNEN DEBUTS ON THE HUSQVARNA SM449RR

Nice pics ray-ray but IMO his gear looks cool but the bike looks a bit bland and unexciting? Still not digging the BM Huskys. Painful to say. Ouch... apols..
 
I hear ya .... myself, I've been waiting to see this machine run in this series ....

Husky has dominated the SM stuff in EU for years with the 450 machinery that many here in the states never liked apparently .... Until this engine dominates this arena as the past engine did, it is not on the same level, no matter what is written ... This will be interesting to follow

This also puts that new fangled rear suspension on the hard top and off dirt ... I was asking some other knowledgeable people why this type of CS on swingarm suspension is not on street bikes and the answer was something like ' their is not that much to gain here on a street bike so why bother ?'

What is that big Husky emblem on the upper right side of the engine?

PS -- That helmet looks pretty cool
 
Looks like the seat goes up to the triples. I'm not a fan of the new model. Maybe it will grow on me.
 
:D The new bike is fantastic. Ride one and all your fears / reservations will be gone. I rode my TE511 on some sweet trails this weekend with two semi fast guys on a new 2011 KTM300 and FE390 Berg and smoked them. I felt hero on the bike in slick clay single track. I'm serious in saying this IMHO is the best husky going. I decatted the muffler and it took on a new attitude and has bark off the bottom and afterburner on top. Mix that with sweet suspension, butter smooth trans / clutch / motor and add excellent handling and the bike is a freaking winner. 2011 KTM300 rider gets tired of me on his ass an waves me by. Rode up front the rest of the day and was gapping them EZ. The new bike is amazing. Ride one.

 
I was a hater at first. But there starting to grow on me. I'm just happy that he is still with Husky. He was fast at the end of the season last year.
 
Where do you guys follow the SM races on TV? I know there's a bit of a geographical issue here! but not seeing any coverage here. Not that I have Sky - is it there? Thanks.
 
ray_ray said:
I hear ya .... myself, I've been waiting to see this machine run in this series ....

Husky has dominated the SM stuff in EU for years with the 450 machinery that many here in the states never liked apparently .... Until this engine dominates this arena as the past engine did, it is not on the same level, no matter what is written ... This will be interesting to follow

This also puts that new fangled rear suspension on the hard top and off dirt ... I was asking some other knowledgeable people why this type of CS on swingarm suspension is not on street bikes and the answer was something like ' their is not that much to gain here on a street bike so why bother ?'

What is that big Husky emblem on the upper right side of the engine?

PS -- That helmet looks pretty cool
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Sorry, missed that, err I don't know, is it an emissions canister?
 
Motosportz said:
overflow. SM tracks require it.
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Oh, ok thanks. So from the crank vent rather than direct to the air intake the excess is caught and then any fumes carry on up into the intake? Makes sense. I'll have to take a trip to Huskysport to see these new bikes in the flesh methinks.
 
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