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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

SM450R popularity

Acidean

Acidean

Husqvarna
A Class
Hey guys,

I've been going through the forums around the net now for a couple of weeks, and there don't seem to be too many SM450R's out there... lots of talk on the TE's and the SM511, 610, 630 though... anyone know why this is? was my purchase a bad idea?
 
It's not that it's a 'bad idea', it's just not as common as the TE models. My impression here is one of camaraderie. I think SMJ is all about who's bike is better.
I own a 07 SMR and right now use it strictly for racing. It's heads and tails better than a DRZ (unless it's a purpose built prototype race machine lol). I owned a DRZ previously and loved it.
But I way prefer my Husky, and on CH I learn more about the brand.
Welcome to the 'other' red side.
 
In general, SM's aren't as popular as off road bikes. That's why you read about the TE's more. Husky isn't as popular as Hon, Suz, Yam, kaw yet, thus your not finding as much info. I think your purchase was not a bad idea at all. Just not a "follow the sheep crowd" one. A lot of us who own Huskys came from the big four and stayed and I don't think you'll find many who came from husky and left. It just shows you can think for yourself.
 
Thanx for the positive feedback guys... it is much appreciated... wish there were more SM guys who just screw around though, could've made for some crazy fun

I have to say, a few days ago I was at KTM to query on prices for paddock stands, and when I went back to the bike there was a crowd admiring her... the fact that the crowd worked in the building next to KTM, where they see pumpkins daily, kinda made it special :D

ride long and hard (and safe) ;)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top