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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TT Scrambles on a TC449

banda

banda

Husqvarna
A Class
I gotta say this: I love my 2011 TC 449. Excellent bike. Six weeks ago, I looped it at my local TT track and broke nine ribs, a vertebra, and bruised my lung. Even that night, as I lay in the trauma room at the hospital with a nasal canula and a foley catheter, I said out loud, between bouts of coughing up blood - "I love that bike. Can't wait to race it again."

I got my chance last night. I felt up to it, so I went back to the track and rode the Open C class. I had a good heat race and a so-so main event. I was very happy to be back. Here's a helmet cam vid:

 
Nice looking track there with all the loam dirt and looked plenty safe .... Plenty wide for sliding around ... You can't get up on the tank and power slide around the corners? You know, just gas it hard and let the rear end slide out?

I've never understood that part that I nearly killed my self but want more, but OK ... You lived to ride again ... I normally say I gotta get better and or slow down ... I'm just not a fan of any more body pain ....

Good luck on your racing and the TC sounded good on your video ..
 
Would it change your opinion to know that's not loam? It's clay.

That track hasn't changed since the sixties, but it's always different, if you get my drift. Some nights it packs hard and gets a blue groove. Some races its just tacky enough that you hook up great. It depends on how many heats have been run since they watered it. This video was the fourth heat after watering, so the whole track was chunking, no real groove yet.
 
As for sliding it around the corner, not gonna happen at a TT - the corners are tighter than at a oval track, so half the corner is getting the bike slowed down and turned on the brakes, the other half where you drive out, the inside line is faster, so you want to point and shoot. I mean the bike is power sliding on the exit... rear tire spinning and running outside the track of the front wheel, but in TT you get brakes front and rear, and the fast way is to use them. The rear spins all the way down the straight for that matter. If you've ever been roosted with clay at 70 mph, you understand really well what that little visor thing on your helmet is for.
 
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