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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE511 & Finke Desert Race

Apri11

Apri11

Husqvarna
A Class
Just finished my first ever Finke Desert Race on the TE511, I must say, the bike went absolutely terrific all weekend. The only item requiring further attention is my racing ability, though my enjoyment factor was 10/10.

My impressions overall of the bike are very positive. I did not have one hiccup at all. The bike rode strong all weekend and had plenty of power when needed. Had a few comments from other riders when behind me (not too often did this actually happen) that it was difficult for them at times because of the amount of rocks and dust his thing threw up, it just pulls like a tractor, plenty of torque everywhere. There were 7 husky’s entered this year out of a total of 433 competitors and all finished under time except one. With the amount of dust I copped all weekend, without changing the air filter until I got home, I was quite surprised after pulling out to inspect of how clean it looked. My mate entered with his TE449 and also did not have any issues.

The race it the hardest thing I have ever done, the track is brutal with endless whoops. There is nothing that I have ever experienced that replicates the track. Through my soreness and acing pains, I will go back for another race, possibly in 2015 for the Finke 40 years.

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Congrats of finishing! That is quite an accomplishment. Good to hear your 511 ran good and strong all the way to the finish.
 
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