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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Welcome to the forum! Introduce yourself here!

Hi everyone!

Well I'm Erik! :D I have been quite active on the 900nuda forum lately (because I have a Nuda duhhh). I work at a motorcycle dealership where I manage two webshops (a Husqvarna webshops and a specialized Nuda webshop) and help managing two others (MV Agusta webshop and Ducati webshop). I won't post the links in respect for the sponsors. However a CafeHusky sponsorship might be interesting for us as well!

Last week I bought my second Husqvarna... :love:
We had a former demo-motorcycle from the Italian Husqvarna Factory in stock for a few months now and I have been eyeing it ever since.
Today I was able to make a sweet deal with my supervisor and now my Nuda has a little brother!
Coming soon: New exhaust headers, GPR Furore mufflers, Handguards with blinkers, New sprocket, etc.


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ghbgator said:
I live in the Philippines. I traded my 2013 KTM 390 Duke in for a 2013 Husqvarna TR650 Terra. I love both bikes, but the TR is much better suited for the roads here. I also have a 2013 Honda XR 125.
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I have owned the Terra for 6 1/2 months, I have 11,907km (7,400 miles) on the bike. I am on my 2nd set of tyres, same as the OEM's, Metzler Sahara's. The bike runs hot but does not go into to overheat/shutdown mode, but it will stall if I'm not paying attention. The stalling is a bitch in Manila traffic. I like the bike, but the running hot and stalling suck! If the Honda XR 650 or the Suzuki DR 650 weren't so damn expensive here I would trade the Terra.
 
Hey, finally picked up my new 2015 FE501 today... been waiting 3 full months. D*mn what a bike! Love it, drastic change from the YZ's and WR's I've had for years - total upheaval from my street legal KLR. This girl is gonna be fun, she is damn pretty.

First thing is replacing the dealer graphics. That was the most painful purchase I have ever made, can't recommend anybody ever go spend their money there.



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After waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and explaining, and explaining, and explaining - I'll just do the light kit and tires myself. How hard can it be?

Anyway, anyone in the Austin, TX area pick one up recently?

Gonna hit GSL Ranch or Hidden Falls tomorrow with my daughter.
 
Greeting all,
Yesterday morning I got up and was in a strange mood. After getting my boy dressed we headed down to my local husqvarna dealer. Where Id been looking at bikes for the last three years. I had two I was looking at. Then after a short talk with the salesman "Lon" and Bill, again about what I wanted to do as far as riding, I told him I was going to the movies with my boy and I'll think about it some more. We went and saw the new penguins movie where to my surprise, didn't think about the bikes at all.? After the movie we went to the bank. Then back to the dealer all this time waiting for a sign or some voice to tell me this isn't a good idea.

Nope nothing to indicate what I was about to do was wrong.



Now I've been that tire kicker for three years or so bugging Bill and his crew, asking question like a kid in elementary school asking over and over again. See I've always wanted a dirt bike and being a military kid we never had a place to ride or keep the bikes and I don't think mom and dad had the money. Bill had always been extremely patient with me and we got on a first name basis to every time I came to his shop he'd say hi Graham and we'd make small talk, snever once pressure me to buy.



Any way I purchased a bike!

This is my first dirt bike! I bought a 2015 fe350



After loading my boy and I went straight home. While getting my gear I'd been buying for the last few years piece by piece. The BOSS came out and with out a hesitation she's

"WTF DID YOU DO ! ?"

Me with a smile I just said "something I've always wanted to do." Then she's all where are you going? I replied going to the races. With big smile.

I do normally ask and talk about large purchases but this time well I can't explain it, was like if fate didn't stop me from buying, I wasn't letting anything els stop me. I'm a responsible parent and make sure bills are paid food in the fridge so…



After grabbing my gear I head to the fair grounds where they where getting ready to practice and race. So I signed up for the beginner class knobby. (Flat track racing)





I had to put a number on the bike they told me, my buddy Jon spots off "he's number #1". I tun an look at him with a thought of Great I think to my self all these guys are going to think…
Jon says the easiest number to make is the number one with tape.

Well I had fun, scared the crap out of myself haha. Finished last in practice and in the heat races and in the main I crashed. Didn't get hurt,scratched the bike and had a wonderful time best of all my wife (the Boss) showed up to watch.

Just an awesome day. From dealer to the track then dinner and to bed.
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Haha yep...You were lookin good out there too Graham! What better way to break in a brand new bike than go straight to the track with it!

He's thinking "Oh man...What have I done..."
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Off to a good start!
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He did a little bar bangin'
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For those that don't know (which would be everybody except Gramps and KevinTE250), Graham is my buddy that came out to China Hat this last spring and was on my TXC250 when the pool noodle run-flat experiment failed.
 
GearHead said:
Hey guy's, just joined, and I just bought my first road bike last week. Picked up a 2013 tr650 strada with 855 miles on the clock. Stumbled across this site while trying to find a exhaust for it. I think it's to quiet.
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Welcome. I just joined as well. I'm actually originally from Oregon. I now live in Australia. Picked up the last 2 TR650 Stradas in Brisbane few months ago. One for me, one for wife. Been gradually getting them outfit to do some adventure riding. There were no Terras to be found, so we're fitting out the Stradas. Find a good exhaust solution?
 
AzOzRider said:
There were no Terras to be found, so we're fitting out the Stradas. Find a good exhaust solution?
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Look in either the TR section, or under Bill's Motorcycles in the site sponsor section, I know Bill has a few bikes out in the wild with Forza and/or FMF exhausts.
 
XandresPop here from Tucson,Az. I have been riding 42 years, Started in the dirt. moved to Roadracing[Suzuki/Kawasaki/Yamaha] in 1980's and then[Ducati] again in 96. My son Xandre came along in 00 , so back to play in the dirt with him for the last 11 years. Traded my 07 KTM SXf250 for A NOS 2011 TXC511 Dealer demo. It came with The Akro pipe and remapped. Runs great, but I think it should have more...I know it has it, just a matter of getting it out! I will be asking plenty of Questions so be warned!
My Sons on the '12' CR125/144.Still on the 125cc Bore, and if he wants to go super moto we will drop in the 144..I am sure we will learn a great deal about our bikes from our time here at the Cafe'
 
Hi all, I live in southern CA and I just bought a 1992 360.
It's my fourth bike, first being a china pit bike which I sold, then a 1980 yamaha sr250 which is a scrambler project, and also a 1972 suzuki ts125 which I bought and sold.
Needless to say this bike is a huge upgrade in every department when compared to these previous bikes.
I plan on keeping it for awhile, I am emotionally attached to it already haha.
 
Good, afternoon, New to forum, Have a 1980 390 WR follow me home the other day, solid bike, few warts, but over all good. I and my family have had other Huskys for over 30+ years. Question, were there a lot of 1980 WR's produced? My friends and I seem to remember there were lots of CR's and OR's back in the day. In fact 3 of us had 390 OR's for the Arizona desert.
 
hey guys, here from Australia.

picking up am 07 sm610 from a mate just to blast about on. definitely not new to SM as i had a wr450 motard and raced a crf450. but will be the first husky!

got a couple of KTM's at the moment, which are just so much fun.
 
Hey there! I just got a 2015 fe501s. Looking to make it my all around bike. I will be converting it to supermoto and riding small easy trails when in dirt form!

Tyler
Columbus, OH
 
I'm Gordy, I run a small machine shop specializing in vintage and classic motorcycles. I do lots of one off and weird stuff, so if anybody has machining needs please let me know. Hoping to contribute in whatever ways I can.

Thanks, Gordy.
Southern, IN
 
Thanks, Gordy! If I was on the same continent I would head to IN and we'd mock up an exhaust and a few other bits I'd like to do. Anyone near him?
 
Gordy. Over on the "exhaust" thread in the TR section, we're discussing an exhaust solution. If you'd be interested, pop on there and let us know what we could do to see about you mocking one up. Though I'm way down under now, I and others here would buy from anywhere a solution is offered. The dealer I bought from sold more TR's than any Husky dealer and has nowhere to send people. I have 2 of them, mate of mine has 2, and a couple others nearby have some. We all need a solution.
 
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