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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

The all new tc450 in cycle news

Funny as the few comments at the bottom of the article mirror what is said \ asked about the bike on the pure Husky sites :)
 
Still best to reserve some judgement untill after the first few races. if it goes well you will be amazed at how many converts there will be. I do wish them well though. It is time for Husky to step to the plate on the MX side. I think great MX machines attributes definately trickle down to the enduro bikes.
 
"Huska-beemer!" I also wish this well and we should find out soon. When will this bike be tested or produced? Early Fall?
 
For me,this was not the direction I was hopeing a new 450 would go.They had the most reliable and ease of maintance motors out there.Now you have this mantance nightmare of a BMW that happens to say Husqvarna on it.Just wait till you have to adust the valves on that motor.
 
auto;96623 said:
For me,this was not the direction I was hopeing a new 450 would go.They had the most reliable and ease of maintance motors out there.Now you have this mantance nightmare of a BMW that happens to say Husqvarna on it.Just wait till you have to adust the valves on that motor.
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I've adjusted plenty on both HSQ and BMW. The BMW is only a tad more time involved but still not as labor intensive as a traditional DOHC. One of the cams utilizes finger followers while the other is cam over. Takes about 20 more minutes then current DOHC HSQ's if that side needs an adjustment, but they seem to stay pretty spot on for the first 90-100hrs in non-competitive use.

The fact that then engine is A LOT lighter then the current HSQ platform and put's out about 10% more hp per cc is a very nice feature too!
 
Like I said,this is not the replacement I was hopeing for.As for the BMW motor being lighter and having more HP than the current motor,yes your right.I'm sure Husky had their next generation 450 motor too.I would have liked to have seen it and then pass judgement.It really dosen't matter now,BMW has all the marbles and they will do it their way. As for valve adjustment,as soon as I have to pull cams, I'm sorry, give me Huskys current layout
 
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