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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Powers 2nd in Class @ ECEA Hare Scramble Opener

pahusky

pahusky

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Sunday, March 4th in cloudy, cold and wind swept southern New Jersey. But not too bad considering it's the beginning of March!

Maiden voyage for the new ride… 2012 TXC250. Not a whole lot of hours on the bike but enough to consider it broke in.

TXC250.jpg



They had about a 10 to 11 mile loop setup and the race would end up being four 1/2 hour laps.
So gas was going to be in question with the stock tank. I was figuring let him run three 1/2 hour laps before pulling him in, filling him up and see how much it took as a gauge. Turns out he was more than fine with 3 before a pit...I'm thinking an hour and 1/2 with no problems...Maybe 1 stop during a 3 hour event.

Main race had a total of 277 racers with 26 on his 'B 4-Stroke' line. He got off the line good…a little excited and sideways, but ended up going into the tight stuff around 4th place.

4th bike in from the left; right behind the guy doing the wheelie…
First lap picture from the professionals…
http://www.dirtriderphoto.com/Hare-...-1/21790277_j2jnSX/2/1736689529_FMnxRkW/Large


He came thru 36 minutes later in second and down a couple of minutes to the class leader. He said slow traffic and single track set him back. We had discussed about not being too aggressive…remember 'kind-of, sort-of test run'…don't hurt yourself taking chances.
I think I had my hand of the speaker…no sound.
2nd is where he would end up. Suspension is still stock and from what I could see we'll be stripping things down tonight and getting these taken care of…
Bike ran good and consistent, Andy was happy with how it ran, just was not happy with the handling or his finish… sometimes Jersey sand runs are not the best to judge your overall performance for the rest of the year.

I keep reminding him he had a fairly slow start last year, but he has the whole year…reinforcing the long haul mentality.

Ended up 2nd in class out of 26 and 67 overall out of 277…Good start to the year.


1st place in the class went to a TXC310. Very encouraging; more Huskys than usual.
I did a count of the overall, 14 Huskys out of 277 bikes; that's 5%...

Special Thanks to the sponsors…Toy Tech Cycles, Husqvarna NA, FLY Racing, Wiseco, Cycra, RK Excel and Pro Circuit
 
Was that a 310 that wheelied much of the start? It's very hard for a 250 to beat or stay with a 310 in a drag race(assuming equal riders). The 310's are the best overall & most versatile size for a 4t dirtbike IMO.
If I have traction, & do a 2nd gear start(w/stock sprockets), my '09 TXC310(bigblock, formerly a 250) will carry the front wheel for a long time with me up on the tank & I have to be careful that it doesn't stand up.

Looks like he has the speed to make it up elsewhere....
 
What did he not like about the handling?
Also my 250 sits lower in the rear than my 125, have you noticed this also?
 
slow...I think there was a Honda lined up to his left (looking at the line) that did the wheelie thing. To the right, one or two bikes, was the 310...the guy in the green gear right behind him going into the 1st corner.

water...I've always found our woods setup does not handle miles of sand whoops well. But when we were in NC testing I could not get the sag to agree between static and rider...He's 140 lbs; no gear, I believe we are heading for a different spring rate in the rear for starters and try to balance from there.

Talking to good local tuner now about getting things done. I my opinion it's all about instilling confidence at speed...any doubt at all and the throttle doesn't get twisted quite as far! It's a good question and the answer is always hard to put my finger on. I can't get detailed feedback from him, he just does not know enough, but the education continues! For both of us! To be continued...
 
pahusky said:
slow...I think there was a Honda lined up to his left (looking at the line) that did the wheelie thing. To the right, one or two bikes, was the 310...the guy in the green gear right behind him going into the 1st corner.

water...I've always found our woods setup does not handle miles of sand whoops well. But when we were in NC testing I could not get the sag to agree between static and rider...He's 140 lbs; no gear, I believe we are heading for a different spring rate in the rear for starters and try to balance from there.

Talking to good local tuner now about getting things done. I my opinion it's all about instilling confidence at speed...any doubt at all and the throttle doesn't get twisted quite as far! It's a good question and the answer is always hard to put my finger on. I can't get detailed feedback from him, he just does not know enough, but the education continues! For both of us! To be continued...
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I don't know with KYB's, but Huskys with Marzocchi/Sachs combo stock... You'd stiffen up the clickers and drop the fork tubes flush and it would work in the sand whoops. You'd need a revalve to ride everywhere else though! I'm sure part of it, is getting used to the more front end bias and engine braking of the 4 stroke. I'm sure the deep sand, wouldn't be an easy place to adjust.
 
pahusky said:
slow...I think there was a Honda lined up to his left (looking at the line) that did the wheelie thing. To the right, one or two bikes, was the 310...the guy in the green gear right behind him going into the 1st corner.

water...I've always found our woods setup does not handle miles of sand whoops well. But when we were in NC testing I could not get the sag to agree between static and rider...He's 140 lbs; no gear, I believe we are heading for a different spring rate in the rear for starters and try to balance from there.

Talking to good local tuner now about getting things done. I my opinion it's all about instilling confidence at speed...any doubt at all and the throttle doesn't get twisted quite as far! It's a good question and the answer is always hard to put my finger on. I can't get detailed feedback from him, he just does not know enough, but the education continues! For both of us! To be continued...
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In the vid it looks (to me) like a Husky wheelied to the first corner and got the Holeshot.......
 
Your eyes are better than mine...and I was there! You could be right...BUT WAIT...

Go out to the picture link above. It will be pic #286. Go back some previous pictures to #279; first guy thru, bike # 981, he held the holeshot to the photographer about 4 turns out. Not sure what kind of bike it is...but no top fender brace, don't think it's a Husky. Run the pics thru to #289 and you'll see Andy's bike #515 and the eventual winner bike #212...It's a Husky! Only 3 Husky's in the class and the 3rd one is last in the pic 302, bike #91.

Tag you're it...:popcorn:
 
pahusky said:
Your eyes are better than mine...and I was there! You could be right...BUT WAIT...

Go out to the picture link above. It will be pic #286. Go back some previous pictures to #279; first guy thru, bike # 981, he held the holeshot to the photographer about 4 turns out. Not sure what kind of bike it is...but no top fender brace, don't think it's a Husky. Run the pics thru to #289 and you'll see Andy's bike #515 and the eventual winner bike #212...It's a Husky! Only 3 Husky's in the class and the 3rd one is last in the pic 302, bike #91.

Tag you're it...:popcorn:
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Yep, a close look at the pics (#282)show it's not a husky, given the right side exhaust and squaretube lower frame rails. Someone with 'husky wannabe' plastics.......:D
Are any size 4ts allowed in that class? That bike certainly holeshotted with more 'authority' than a 250....
 
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