• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 vs. CRF450...In the Nevada Desert.

jerbear610

jerbear610

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Went riding in the Nevada Desert over the weekend with a buddy who rides a CRF450. We went
to a place just outside Carson City called Johnson Lane also know as Pine Nuts.
This is the very first time I've ever ridden in the desert. It's different than the trails I normally
like to ride. The sand takes some getting used to.
I'm happy to report that my 511 is a bad boy. I've always wondered how it would stack up
against a 450 MXer. Well to my surprise it was blowing doors on that 450 in several drag races
that went on during the day. Some of which I have on vid. It wasn't til I let off on the gas that he
went squirtin' by me. We traded bikes for a little while and that is the first 450MXer that I've ever
ridden. I was expecting a hard hitting powerband from the CRF. It was ok but I think mine has got
more power. His 450, according to him, was a White Bros. race bike before bought it.







Nice views of the back side of the Sierras.




They were painting the sky all day...



View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivX67A-D4cE&feature=c4-overview&list=UULTcPir9hLIM0LjjKMQ8qdw
 
jerbear610 said:
Went riding in the Nevada Desert over the weekend with a buddy who rides a CRF450. We went to a place just outside Carson City called Johnson Lane also know as Pine Nuts.

This is the very first time I've ever ridden in the desert. It's different than the trails I normally like to ride. The sand takes some getting used to. I'm happy to report that my 511 is a bad boy. I've always wondered how it would stack up against a 450 MXer. Well to my surprise it was blowing doors on that 450 in several drag races that went on during the day. Some of which I have on vid. It wasn't til I let off on the gas that he went squirtin' by me. We traded bikes for a little while and that is the first 450MXer that I've ever ridden. I was expecting a hard hitting powerband from the CRF. It was ok but I think mine has got more power. His 450, according to him, was a White Bros. race bike before bought it.
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Thanks for the drag race reporting ... I'm not surprised to hear a Husky can right along side a Japanese made bike ...

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That sand riding is hard for me also ... Just not a sand rider here...
 
Ive owned 2 Honda 450s and both TXC449 and 511. Not only is the 511 considerably stronger running, it also handles better and is easier to ride due to the CTS and the tractable EFI powerband.
 
Sorry... New to the site and new to Husky. Just picked up the last 511 from Good Times in Sacramento. Have ordered an FMF and I have the power plug installed (also ordered a Seat Concepts). Question: What did you do to get your 511 to be THAT strong running?
 
Tinken said:
How exactly does your 511 react in the sand?
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It felt very squirlly. I'm just not used to riding in thick sand but was able to adapt to it. I wouldn't want to ride
in it all the time, though.


New511Guy said:
Sorry... New to the site and new to Husky. Just picked up the last 511 from Good Times in Sacramento. Have ordered an FMF and I have the power plug installed (also ordered a Seat Concepts). Question: What did you do to get your 511 to be THAT strong running?
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I bought my 511 from Good Times as well. That's about it, though. All my parts and accessories I get from MotoXotica in fact I don't think Good Times stock much
of anything for Husky's parts wise.
To answer your question I've got an FMF muffler and a Power Commander V so you're half way there once you get your FMF.
 
New511Guy said:
Sorry... New to the site new to Husky. Just picked up the last 511 from Good Times in Sacramento. Have ordered an FMF and I have the power plug installed (also ordered a Seat Concepts). Question: What did you do to get your 511 to be THAT strong running?
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You will need just map 3 / open pipe map flashed on once you install the fmf pipe...older models needed programmers like pc5
 
jerbear610 said:
It felt very squirlly. I'm just not used to riding in thick sand but was able to adapt to it. I wouldn't want to ride
in it all the time, though.
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The key to sand is ride as fast as you safely can. Fat front tire and dropping rear pressure a bit helps a lot.
 
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