I recieved my new 449 a few weeks ago, finally got to ride it since I live in northern MN we rode indoors. First things first, Previous huskys I would have never rode without 3 hours and blue lock tite. Not this bike just wanted to see. I did check all bolts before riding, the one piece I did not check was the piece i lost muffler guard. Motor love it very compareable to any other bike out there in hard ignition setting, the soft setting the out put reminded me of my 09 450 smooth, chuggy. Throttle response kehin injection perfect. Turning spot on pick a line and take it. Now the bike does feel big if you were riding my 2010 tc 250 and jumped on aand here are the reasons I feel are why. 1 the rear fender looks sweet, but when strecthing out over some jumps and whoops you WILL feel the rear fender but it is not bad just different. 2nd the rear shock setting wants to ride a little high through the whoops so it makes the bike feel a little Heavy. Note:the harder you ride this bike the better the suspension works, this is straight out of the box no sag setting nothing. the ergonomics were great, where the yamaha feels like it has a enduro tank on the husky is slim and trim, with a few adjustments this will be just put a nice shine on a already great bike. First adjustment shock, second BRAKE Lever my foot seemed to hook under it, third graphics. My skill level is Vet A, A, Offroad AA My Dealer Butchs Powersports Barnesville MN
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
tc 449 1st ride
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Nice, keep the info coming please. I picked up my TE511 last night and rode it around the hood some. Feels slim and light to me especially for a E-start big bore DS bike. Motor barks and spin the rear tire on pavement or wheelies at any snap of the wrist. Fun. Going to try and get a ride on it today but the weather is COLD and snow everywhere.
