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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Ready to ride bike weights

letitsnow

letitsnow

Husqvarna
AA Class
Lets post some!

My 2000 WR250 harescrambler weighs 247 lbs with a full (2.9 gallon) tank of gas.

1993 Honda CR144 weighs 226 lbs with a full (stock) gas tank.

Both bikes are woods machines with steel kickstands, hand guards, skidplates, slime in heavy duty tubes etc..
 
Dual sport ready 2006 TE510, with 3.9 gallons of gas.
305 lb's, weighed by using a bike lift with bath scale under the skid plate.

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P.S. it's so much easier lifting it with the factory tank after you drop it, never would have guessed a couple gallons extra could make that much of a difference.
 
Ruffus;127483 said:
P.S. it's so much easier lifting it with the factory tank after you drop it, never would have guessed a couple gallons extra could make that much of a difference.
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The new 449/511 has the tank where the air box is and should eliminate some of that feeling. :thumbsup:
 
Motosportz;127484 said:
The new 449/511 has the tank where the air box is and should eliminate some of that feeling. :thumbsup:
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That's how my Yamaha FZR400 was, and it made the bike feel like a featherweight compared to other similar sportbikes. That's just how it should be, don't you think?




WoodsChick
 
I just weighed my 2009 450 SMR race bike with 1 gallon of fuel and got 249 pounds. I did the bathroom scale under the skid plate on a stand and made sure it sat level. My bike was put on a huge diet tho.
 
2010 TXC250= 255lbs with 1.9 gal of gas, Tubliss front and rear, lithium battery, billet rad guards, ADB busters, skidplate, p3 exhaust guards.

Weighed with bathroom scale 3 times.


Feels like BMX bike compared to the 510!
 
'04 TE450 - 264lbs with half a tank of fuel. That's (ummm...) 120kg.
No kicker or blinkers, but wraparound handguards and rad braces fitted.

Gave my bathroom scales a fright! Seems a bit light though - I wonder if they're telling porkies...
 
Motosportz;127484 said:
The new 449/511 has the tank where the air box is and should eliminate some of that feeling. :thumbsup:
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Yeah I had feeling that would be the case.

Wish I had the finances to take advantage of that. Gonna be a few years before I trade in the Big Bad Wolf. I love her :thumbsup:
 
Rufus those 06 machines are great and more importantly they are bullet proof. I had on 05, 510 and an 06 450 just brilliant all round bikes. I think people forget that the TE is not an MX bike sometines.
 
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