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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

OK its winter life sucks. what to do...buy a $750.00 husky and ride it...

fletchman45

fletchman45

Husqvarna
Pro Class
IMG_20150116_145203_143.jpg OK I didnt want to mess up my pretty new husky so I'm saving this old dog! Burned around for a half hour today and had a blast! Needs $300 in maintenance done asap but it is a fbf want a be with a fbf cylinder and pro circuit exhaust! But what do you get for a seven hour round trip drive and 750 bucks. Do you just screw short screws in the knobs for traction on frozen ground????of course like everyone the guy was certain he had a true fbf bike and claimed the original owner ordered it with the blue triple clamps.. . I had and fbf bike and it had black forks and black coated lowers.... Having fun but need traction! Main jet for 15 degrees? Didn't blow up yet at least and has a new top end and stator and 130 psi...PS sold the weekend Suzuki no Japanese bikes allowed and it may be chapter three but I have many fond memories of chapter one and two...
 
fletchman45 said:
Do you just screw short screws in the knobs for traction on frozen ground????
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On my WR450f the screws worked just fine. The screws in the rear tire would wear down, but they stayed in the tire. On my Husky FC250, the screws would all get ripped out of the rear tire. They only would last 2 rides.

Maybe the 125 would be ok with screws?
 
Scratch my post above, I'm told these are the ticket...

http://www.gripstuds.com/

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fletchman45 said:
Thanks. I'm in cheap mode lol. Gonna just grab some similar looking screws and put them in!! Raise the needle and throw in a bigger main jet.... Without studs and frozen ground......fun but not fun!!
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I tried that and ended up littering the trails with screws which I felt bad about.
 
I ended up using ice screws in the front tire and a trelleborg rear. The Trelleborg is a full 3 lbs heavier than the mx51 that came stock on my fc250. The heavy tire makes it feel like I have a flywheel weight, which I don't like, but the trade off is that the rear tire seems pretty much indestructible.

There is a guy in Isanti selling some new (old stock) trelleborg rear tires for $200 each. I paid him (paypal) and drove there to get it. If you're interested in doing that, i'll pm you his number.
 
ajaxauto said:
It was 80 degrees here in beautiful so calif today Tomorrow it should be the same headed up to do a little KOM pre riding
what could be better
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Oh John.... You'll never know the fun of riding in really cold weather. I wouldn't trade my weather for a second, to live in the Republik of California.... Good luck at KOM!
 
Fletch,
I work outside all day in the cold too. There are days when it's hard to get out, but when you do you're glad you did! That old Husky is sweet, but you might as well start riding that TC and getting used to it for the race season. Get it dialed now and you'll save a lot of @$$ ache later.
 
I may not get much time in this winter but plan on riding EVERY weekend If I can do so without injury this entire summer! Let it snow I'll PM you. Thanks.
 
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