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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

SUCCESSFUL FIRST RALLY FOR NEW TEAM HUSQVARNA MONSTER ENERGY SPEEDBRAIN

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Husqvarna's debut in motorcycle rally racing was launched at the opening round of the Rally Raid World Championship, the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge.Dutchman Frans Verhoeven, who won a Dakar stage in January on a speedbrain BMW, and French Enduro and Rally icon David Frétigné represented the white-and-red colors of Husqvarna in the Arabian desert.


The highly challenging five-day sand chase ended with a second place for Verhoeven in the final stage. The Dutchman finishes fourth place overall, missing the podium by less than five minutes.


Frétigné had a good comeback following his severe spinal injury. After a five-month break the rally veteran is getting adapted to speed again and is fully motivated to make further progress. He achieved two fourth places as best day results, giving him seventh in the final standings.


At the first race day, Verhoeven lost about 13 minutes due to an navigation error. A final gap of 17 minutes to winner Marc Coma and 12 minutes to runner-up Helder Rodrigues prove the competitiveness of bike and team.

Final Overall standings after 5 days of race:
1 COMA-CAMPS Marc KTM 450 18h28'00
2 RODRIGUES Helder YAMAHA 450 18h33'21
3 PRZYGONSKI Jakub KTM 450 18h40'43
4 VERHOEVEN Frans HUSQVARNA 450 18h45'01
5 ULLEVALSETER Pal KTM 450 18h47'44
6 FARIA Ruben KTM 450 18h49'54
7 FRETIGNE David HUSQVARNA 450 18h55'50
8 CZACHOR Jacek KTM 450 19h37'08
9 DABROWSKI Marek KTM Open 19h41'16
10 CECI Paolo BETA 450 19h57'42


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Looking forward to seeing the Husky colours flying in SA on the '12 Dakar...
any info on what tanks they've equipped? I am assuming that their bikes are based on the new 449... ?

Looking to get into the local rally-raid scene here in Greece and I am currently in
between an 08 te450 (have found a number of larger tank options thanks to this site)
and an '11 te511 (but have been unable to unearth any good info on expanding the 511s' range...)
 
Brodovitch said:
Looking forward to seeing the Husky colours flying in SA on the '12 Dakar...
any info on what tanks they've equipped? I am assuming that their bikes are based on the new 449... ?

Looking to get into the local rally-raid scene here in Greece and I am currently in
between an 08 te450 (have found a number of larger tank options thanks to this site)
and an '11 te511 (but have been unable to unearth any good info on expanding the 511s' range...)
Click to expand...

This is the only option I've found so far on the new 449 & 511
http://youtu.be/L-BHrHl5Hns
 
thanks for that info, will check it out later as office IT people have no understanding
of my Rallye fixation
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Just saw the vid, great find... Sems they left the front stock and popped one on the rear. Was hoping that somehow I could just replace the front with a larger capacity, Ideally somewhere between 3.5 - 4 gallon size. Regardless, any ideas of what make the rear is?

It really compliments the angular design of the bike and I haven't seen it anywhere (other than on the clip) yet...

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