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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

So this is how our relationship is gonna start!

Tessier

Tessier

Husqvarna
AA Class
I get my new shinny bike home unload it off the trailer and put it away for the night. The next day as the temp raises to just above 40 degrees F I run out, pull her out and swing my leg over it only to nick the rear directional and brake it right off! I knew I didn't like those stupid things anyways, but come on this is really how we are going to start things off!
 

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So how cold did it get??

Had a similar strange thing happen when I dropped a fork guard while cleaning it. Busted the mounting ear right off :confused: and it was a warm sunny day. Musta landed just right.
 
My relationship with my Husky started with a gummed up fuel pump that Husky wanted $500 to replace! I love her more than ever a year after that happened. (and Husky got $0 from me!)
 
Funny 1 of the first things I do with a new bike, dualsport flavor is pull the stock signals and put them in a box to save for the resale at a future date . If I'm running the lights, I put on a set of Baja designs(which I've had the best luck with) on all my offroad legal bikes that I have to run lights on. The exception is my 09 TE510, the front lights are still the stock ones only because they are pretty well protected from damage with the stock mounting location, although I moved mine up higher to clear the IMS larger tank on my bike .There are several options which either flush mount or have flexible rubber mounts which are "less likely" to break in the event of a crash . The state I live in requires a minimum of 11" between signals and a surface area of at least 3 square inches for the signal lense, hence the reason why I don't run the flush or minis .Good luck with the new bike .
 
Those rear babies are solid and out there.. Better to have it happen your way then to have the bike snap off and and leave the turn signal left standing..
 
Tessier said:
I get my new shinny bike home unload it off the trailer and put it away for the night. The next day as the temp raises to just above 40 degrees F I run out, pull her out and swing my leg over it only to nick the rear directional and brake it right off! I knew I didn't like those stupid things anyways, but come on this is really how we are going to start things off!
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Good riddance. The stock ones suck and are destined to be torn off and left dangling anyway if you're riding real off-rode for long. Would have been nice for you to get some street miles out of them 1st, though:D
 
The stock US version blinkers suck. Dan at MotoXotica has the Euro version that are slightly smaller and have some flex. My 2011 came with some little metal z shaped brackets about 3/4" on a side that I used to move them inboard. Ditch the spacer too.
 
Hand signals work the best when needed and rarely fall off- even with working "blinkers" we still use hand signals cause its easier to see, you know if they are broken, and it doesn't matter if they are covered with mud.

My buddy with a KTM broke one off his bike durring a ride- I said to just cut the wires and tape them with my supplies but he insisted on taping them back in place. Few miles later- it was just gone. Then we taped the wires. More miles.... The other side broke off and was hanging- he said " just hand me your wire cutters and tape".

(moral to the story)
Dirtbikes with Blinkers become dirtbikes sooner or later- but you still have the title and registration....:thumbsup:
 
About 10 Min after they broke off I pulled the tail light and removed the whole mess. In NH we are not required to have directionals license plate light or reflectors so in the junk bin the whole assembly goes. Waiting on skid plate and radiator guards before I start riding. Learned my lesson the hard way with the last bike. Plus everything is frozen this time of year and I need to make a decision if I want to ride this winter. Do I spend the $150 and stud the stock tires up or try and sell them and buy summer tires and forget winter riding.:excuseme: Some day when money doesn't matter these decisions will be so much easier.
 
Tessier said:
Do I spend the $150 and stud the stock tires up or try and sell them and buy summer tires and forget winter riding.:excuseme: Some day when money doesn't matter these decisions will be so much easier.
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stud it up and ride.... the day that money doesn't matter never comes- but you run out of time waiting... so do what you can at the moment
 
I run lights that were made for Clearance lights on trucks for the rear turn signals. Sure they don't meet DOT, but neither does a light that is broken off and missing :)

here is an example of what they look like. Yes you can see them from behind, just not as good as a real turn signal. Use hand signals when turning and someone is following and you will be seen.
Plus the ones I used are LED, it causes the lights to flash a little faster but you can still see them.
I can't remember where I got them, but they came off the shelf from someplace like Autozone or advanced auto.

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