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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
And so you know when your plate arrives you might need to drill out the front mounting hole a bit. You did not go wrong !Just ordered an Uptite one today for my 449. Super nice guy.
And so you know when your plate arrives you might need to drill out the front mounting hole a bit. You did not go wrong !
I haven't seen his pipe yet , I might of bought one but decided to de-cat mine and so far I'm happy with it ... I bought the 2012 after talking to George and for the price difference n comparing the 11 , the 2012 model price difference is fair.... I can be really demanding on the suspension n frame / wheels and I like the upgraded rads and rear tail section/tail light sub fender design changes...... Tanner hooked me up price wise OTD on the 511 , he knew I had 100 Benies in my back pocket and time to drive to L.A. if he didn'tTanner tried but all the shop had were 2012's and at $10,500 I had to say thanks but no thanks. I then stumbled upon the ride more site from Husky and the dealer incentives for the 2011's. I called Tanner back but he couldnt round one up. My folks are in Prescott so I called the shop there and they had two. Out the door $7648. I sent pop to have a look and he secured one of them for me.
Tanner was totally cool when I called him back and told him what I was doing, he understood and told to bring it in when it got here, no hard feelings. I try not to piss off my neighbours. Sure wish the shop would have shipped one so he could pick up the sale.
Too funny, I also picked up 5 filters and (shhh) oil. As well as the axel nut and some other stuff I dont even remeber.
How is his pipe? He told me I couldnt have it until I promised him 100 miles of easy going breakin on my bike. I like the stock pipe but I suppose I should consider his.
Your going to want to take it out.... Is a bit of work but worth the performance gains.... Drill out rivets/mid pipe side, pull out pressed in mid pipe from muffler to expose cat , I used a chop saw to cut as much of the cat as possible ( even this was a job) , I used a rip cut drill bit to chop the remaining cat , rivet back....Is there a cat in mine as well? THis is the insert between the muffler and pipe correct?
I would be most certainly in some swing arm protection, if something could be made to protect the side and underside of the swing armI just made a carbon fiber one for my bike this weekend turned out awesome. If there is interest I could make a few more, working on case covers too.View attachment 14465View attachment 14466
I would be interested! Im not sure of any compatibility issues but I have a '10 510 SMR and would love to have a red carbon fiber case cover. What type of cover is in the 2nd picture with the Husqvarna logo?I just made a carbon fiber one for my bike this weekend turned out awesome. If there is interest I could make a few more, working on case covers too.View attachment 14465View attachment 14466