• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Nomadic Rack on my TE511

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Husqvarna
AA Class
Justin at Nomadic Racks was way cool to install the rack in exchange for my bike being on his website. Check it out on his website because I can not figure out how to attach a picture to a thread (DUH!). If someone would be so kind to help an idiot and tell me how to attach pictures, I would gladly do so.

http://nomadic-racks.com/index.php?...id=62#!/~/product/category=976078&id=21596124

I've got a 1 gal Rotopax and large Wolfman Rolie pack ordered. I will be testing it out this weekend with bungies and a small bag.

Leaving for the desert in a couple of hours and may not be back on-line til Tuesday
 
I can see a rotopax mount mount is needed or if you wanted a small ice chest but wouldn't the fender itself be fine for mounting fender bags bags or other items with simple hook ankers for bunggies ?
 
I'm thinking of a rack and a rotopax to add some range to the 511; will be watching this thread.
Any comparisons done with Touratech's rack ???
 
fasteer said:
I'm thinking of a rack and a rotopax to add some range to the 511; will be watching this thread.
Any comparisons done with Touratech's rack ???
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t/t's rack just bolts to the fender and is really cheap looking, this has bracketry that bolts it to the subframe. It is more substantial, but I would like to see more under the skin shots. The company told me 10lbs max weight, I would like to see more weight capacity by integrating the subframe to a higher capacity. I'm willing to give this a shot though, but you have to cut into the fender so not quite ready to pull the trigger?
 
Rearwheelin said:
I can see a rotopax mount mount is needed or if you wanted a small ice chest but wouldn't the fender itself be fine for mounting fender bags bags or other items with simple hook ankers for bunggies ?
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Supposedly has a provision for a rotopax mount, looking at the other racks on the site this is a new direction for this guy. This rack is a lot cleaner and more professional looking, but from the pics fit and finish still has something to be desired. The price is good though.
 
I don't see how anyone could built a rack given the 449/511 tail section and be confident things are going to hold together while bombing desert whoops with 10 pounds on the rack. Eventually somthing will give.
 
I'm not bombing anything, but pavement so maybe mine could hold more? As for more off road I think it would be ok too, I'm just afraid of wrecking a subframe on a 9k bike!
 
Josh Feller said:
I'm not bombing anything, but pavement so maybe mine could hold more? As for more off road I think it would be ok too, I'm just afraid of wrecking a subframe on a 9k bike!
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Don't let people scare you, use your best judgement, and remember that people that weld can fix a subframe...

Obviously smooth pavement would put much less stress on things than desert whoops at high speed.
 
If all you want is another gallon of gas, then that has already been solved and its nicely done too. Get a Nomad tank from Kelly at Motorsports, they fit perfect and I have bomb tested mine. The good thing about this is, at the rate my bike sucks gas, I've barely broken a sweat before the aux tank is dry.
 
McKay said:
If all you want is another gallon of gas, then that has already been solved and its nicely done too. Get a Nomad tank from Kelly at Motorsports, they fit perfect and I have bomb tested mine. The good thing about this is, at the rate my bike sucks gas, I've barely broken a sweat before the aux tank is dry.
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Only for 2011 not 12-13? , though I really want one but that's what I've read on here, there was a 2 gal one talked about but I haven't read anymore about it. The more I think about it I think maybe giant loop/nomad tank combo is the way to go oh and a good back pack, any suggestions for that? Water proof is a must!
 
This thread makes me want to build myself a rack now ! lol I do need to stop packing 15-20 lbs in my back pack . I don't like thrashing my bike on bike whoops anyways :)
 
They will fit all years.

I'm a backpack snob I guess you could say. I've tried most but yesterdays ride with my new kreiga 20 has put all my others to shame. The cross chest system really makes the pack carry weight like its not there, they are perfect. They are also infinitely expandable with other packs in their line.
I think the r20 is perfect for these bikes and where we can reasonably expect them to take us in a day.

http://www.kriega.us/motorcycle-backpack-reviews/

I have a nice new Kim and a mid life Ogio that will never be used again.

Josh Feller said:
Only for 2011 not 12-13? , though I really want one but that's what I've read on here, there was a 2 gal one talked about but I haven't read anymore about it. The more I think about it I think maybe giant loop/nomad tank combo is the way to go oh and a good back pack, any suggestions for that? Water proof is a must!
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Josh Feller said:
The more I think about it I think maybe giant loop/nomad tank combo is the way to go!
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Here Is my set up for my Death Valley trip this week. Four days of desert mayhem and I need gas dangit! Ill have four msr fuel bottles inside the 20 liter pack sitting on top of my nomad tank. Should get me around 130 miles if I'm nice.

The gl/tank combo is great!
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