• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Bolting anything to the plastic is a problem waiting to happen IMO, this is a good thing you cant use it.
I saw a guy with two rotopacks bolted to his tail on a 449 last weekend, not sure how long that's going to work.
I had a rotopax in my back pack and hit a rock jump in fourth gear and bike landed on a rock/cased it before the wheels touched down. Threw me on my back with the rotopax it cushioned it perfectly :)
 
Anyone wanting this rack for a 2012-2013 you need to know that you will have to build your own front mount support as these racks are design around the 2011 tail section. The main bracket that bolts to the sub frame fits but it's the new design plastic fenders of the 2012 and up doesn't have a thick plastic to screw into for the racks front mount.
Aarrggghhhh!, first the Nomad tank does not properly fit the contours of the 2012 fender, now the Nomadic rack doesn't mount to the 2012 fender. Anyone have success fitting this rack onto the 2012? Have any picks of what you did with the front mount for the rack?
 
no husky applications on the web site, but looks simple enough to build
I really do not want a major side discussion cause it will not be found easily, but if you are interested in that product - it will fit all Husqvarna bikes except the tr650, and he is working on the tr650 (at least I hope he is). If you are considering making your own from scratch... best of luck, you are more skilled than I.
 
I did a 120 mile ride Saturday, 60% pavement, 30% graded dirt, 10% single track. Had plenty of gas left over after adding that 1 gal from the rotopax. Had a small tool bag strapped on top of the rotopax and only felt it back there a couple of times. Bummer if the Nomadic rack doesn't fit the 12' and 13', but I would bet Justin has some ideas if not a solution already
 
Hey guys they now list one for the 2012/2013 I assume 2014 also. Does this rack bolt to the subframe or just the plastic?
 
On my 2011, the main bracket bolts to the sub-frame. The front of the rack screws into hard plastic and one screw has been stripped for awhile. However, since the main bracket bolts almost in the middle of the rack, it takes almost all of the load. Looks like the 12-13 has a bent tube that bolts to the exhaust mount. Probably a little stronger. The best thing I like about the rack is that I can use it to drag the ass end around in a pinch. :D
 
Well, I have installed this rack and pounded the heck out of it on a trip to Colorado carrying a wolfman bag and 1 gallon rotopax. Never slipped and never had any issues doing 500+ miles of passes including Black Bear Pass with some serious drops and boulders. Just my two cents worth. Here is mine. With some personalized machining :)
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