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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rear tire wear TE 450-510

hogwackr;131458 said:
Any word on the Motoz dot tire yet? I might have to throw those into the mix.....I have the front narrowed down to the Scorpion Pro. Anyone run the Scorpion Pro rear?
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I currently have a set of the Pirelli Scorp pros and I really like them. Most of my riding is trail, deep sand, mudhills. The front holds like crazy. As you know, the knobs are very soft. If you ride on the street with these...the knobs will be rounded lumps in < 500 miles, especially if you're wicking the throttle.
 
Tires I'm sure matters, but since I purchase my own tires and really don't have lots of $$$, I have found that that the follows saves my tires ..,.

1) Don't gas hard in sharp rocks \ grave \ asphalt ...try to get even power to the ground in these places ...
2) Don't get hung on a root \ rock and spin the tire over and over

Just doing these 2 things improved my tire life greatly ... The rider was the biggest enemy for my tire..

The next thing is probably are not possible for you but I'm finding it helps greatly:

1) Reduce hiway speeds ... I ride with a knobbly on the streets here to some degree and have found that speeds < 30MPH with no hard breaking do not wear the tire out quickly ... 20mph is pretty fast here and I try to stay in this range to save the tire ...

I like the really hard rubber tires for extended life... The kendas ( k270 4 da rear ) were less costly at one time but it seems they are moving up in cost now :( ... I think I have found a supplier here for them now and I am so happy :) ... My outer boundary range is about to be extended again ....
 
Thanks for The info. I think I'm going to hold off a bit and give the new Motoz dot rear a shot when they come out. Currently running a 606 and have a few miles left on it.
 
Another vote for the Pirelli MT43 trials tire. I've got 1200 miles on mine with combined road ~ 20% off road ~ 80%. Run 8-9 psi. Grips great, tracks super straight (don't underestimate this benefit) and handles small chop and rocks better than a knob. Downside is power slides are weird, especially when the tire is new and braking takes some getting used to.
 
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