• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

TE449 Press release

jlk_250;118893 said:
The span from high to low on the existing TE 450/510 is 2.45. The span on the new TE449/511 is 2.49. So it is virtually the same (2.8% wider).
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Serenity now. Thanks.
 
Hmm.. I'm not sure what to make of this new fangelled thing they call a Husqvarna... I cant helpp feel that there is no Husqvarna in there, But I do see a lot of BMW ****************************************
 
huskydude59;131322 said:
Hmm.. I'm not sure what to make of this new fangelled thing they call a Husqvarna... I cant helpp feel that there is no Husqvarna in there, But I do see a lot of BMW ****************************************
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I'm pretty sure there is still a fair amount of Husky DNA in there.
 
rajobigguy;131325 said:
I'm pretty sure there is still a fair amount of Husky DNA in there.
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Yeh I'd like to think so but knowing the last model pretty good and also the BMW I get the big feeling they have dissolved the main assets of the husqvarna and replaced it with BMW design. I have had a lot to do with the BMW vehicle headlight designs and I know the German way of things seeing i work for a German company... I guess time will tell hey
 
husky is a state of mind. regardless of what's under the hood. the spirit is alive.

some judged the weight high on the 449. aint that far off, esp with the magic button! look at the CR450F, or even the X model. it aint no lightweight at all, and the CRF-X is a pig. one thing i've noted about the husky 4T motors is the difference in power and tractability vs. the other 5. i like the husky power delivery much better and there's no shortage of it anywhere. my '07 TC is a prime example. i've swapped bikes with other on the asians and they remark how much torque is has and how much less buzzing ya gotta do to get it to go. with the revs kept in the mid to upper mid the suspension works MUCH better.

i want Ty's bike for a dez specific mount. the torque, the ride and some nice moist desert pan for bush-slaloming would be freakin' epic guys.

gimme!!!
 
As a new convert to a Husky .... the only other bike I´d even look at is a `Berg (but am not willing to take on the maintenance and difficulties of getting it registered for road use here). There´s just no alternative.
 
organ donor;131644 said:
As a new convert to a Husky .... the only other bike I´d even look at is a `Berg (but am not willing to take on the maintenance and difficulties of getting it registered for road use here). There´s just no alternative.
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it is my feeling the new 449/511 will be a LOT like the new Bergs in feel and performance. But sexier and better :p
 
pvduke;131636 said:
husky is a state of mind. regardless of what's under the hood. the spirit is alive.

some judged the weight high on the 449. aint that far off, esp with the magic button! look at the CR450F, or even the X model. it aint no lightweight at all, and the CRF-X is a pig. one thing i've noted about the husky 4T motors is the difference in power and tractability vs. the other 5. i like the husky power delivery much better and there's no shortage of it anywhere. my '07 TC is a prime example. i've swapped bikes with other on the asians and they remark how much torque is has and how much less buzzing ya gotta do to get it to go. with the revs kept in the mid to upper mid the suspension works MUCH better.

i want Ty's bike for a dez specific mount. the torque, the ride and some nice moist desert pan for bush-slaloming would be freakin' epic guys.

gimme!!!
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That power delivery feeling will be gone with the new 449 and 511. Most of that comes from the engine and it's a BMW engine. Now Husky may have tweaked it a bit, but at its core, it's a completely different and new (to Husky) engine.

That said.... I think the new engine will do fine. The CTS should keep the power delivery smoooooooth. Very smooth. As long as the weight and distribution is good, the geometry and handling are good and the suspension is good, it should be a fantastic bike.

What I want to know is the difference between the 449 and 511. Is it just bore? Is there a gearing difference? The weight is identical. Seems pointless to rob yourself of a little extra power and go small with the 449...
 
Thats a little interesting .. adding 28cc does not sound like much ... Changing the name to 511 indicates a much bigger change ... Sounds more like a marketing ploy than a >500 cc bike ...

That 630 looks purtty ...
 
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