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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Welcome. Really nice photos. Have you two swapped bikes for a Husky/KTM comparison? As similar as they are, the two tend to feel a little different, dontcha think?
haven't been on for a while, and WOW, nice bike and love the look.
My 2017 TE300 was changed night and day different with the JD kit and ever so slightly filing the existing notch on slide, and opening up the air box in a couple places. I have rode some very dusty days and the filter is no dirty than any other bike Ive ever owned. These changes made the world of difference and close enough to all my other KTM Keihins to not worry about this Mikuni.
The opening up the slide notch on the reed side of the motor helped on the hard starting and weird off idle bog I couldn't tune out. I could have switched to the S4 needle jet and resolved it, but either way works.
I also did the V-Force reeds, and did not notice any performance gain, or motor change, but feel better about having a higher quality reed in my motor.
If you get bored with the new "smooth" power design as I did, the S3 head with the High Altitude insert at Sea Level really woke the motor up. In addition to an FMF Fatty, and it feels like all my previous 3rd gear pinned thru the woods KTM 300's.