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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Vertically Impared

E

EF2.0

Husqvarna
B Class
My wife is pretty short about 5' 2" and I was thinking about picking up a TE 250 for her but im worried she wont be able touch the floor does anybody have any suggestions or maybe even a different bike

Let me know

Thanks
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Will this be your wife's first bike? If so, I'd probably go with something smaller and lighter until she picks up some skills worthy of a TE250. Learning how to ride a dirt bike is intimidating enough even without having to deal with the tippy-toe issue. If she already knows how to ride, get the TE and lower it via internal suspension mods.

I'm 5'1" with short legs and had my 610 lowered and re-valved by Les at LTR. He does great work. I also ride a KTM450 in the dirt and we lowered that ourselves with a lowering kit from RaceTech since the suspension was pretty close and didn't need a re-valve. They don't offer a kit for the Huskies, but I'd guess if your wife is only 5'2" she'd probably need a re-valve anyway.

Good luck!


WoodsChick
 
Buy her a trials bike****************************************!!!
No problem touching the ground and impossible to stall.
You can allways add a little seat if needed.
If you want to stay enduro type bike, then the Kawasaki KE 100 is hard to beat for a light starter bike.
If you want something that is plated then the Honda 230 is hard to beat. I have a Yamaha TW-200 for my wife, easy to ride but very heavy.
 
Another bike we're considering for my wife is the Yamaha XT225 which is street legal, supposedly great suspension and the lightest of that class. Have not riden or seen one yet, but LOTS of forums and info about it.

Cutting the seat down on the TE will loss 1.5 inches.
 
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