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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

What's Our 2 Cents Worth (Bike Improvements)

dartyppyt

dartyppyt

Husqvarna
Pro Class
What do you think about putting in our 2 cents for building a better bike?

Here are a couple of Ideas?

1.) An adjustable rear subframe to raise or lower seat height? ? 1/2" to 1" ?

2.) Adjustable Gear Shift/Brake Lever Tips To Adjust To Your Boot Lengths.

3.) Adjustable Foot Peg Heigths?

4.) Grease Fittings On All Areas That Need Greased.

5.) Rubber or Plastic Insert Where Your Boot Rubs The Side Covers.

Maybe the engineeers will take notice!


Typpyt
 
Pre specify your weight so correct fork and shock springs in the bike from the get go (not at extra cost.

Same for handle bar risers.

screws rather than rivets for exhaust repacking.

still need to look at the kick stand

make them the lightest in class not the heaviest

put in turn teck batteries from the start

better headlights, led tail lights

better quality hydraulic clutch internals

Lower seat height standard.
 
No doubt the fork/shock springs. Every time I buy bike, need springs. Husky needs to introduce a good selection immediate Aftermarket needs (Oversize tanks).
 
Some good ideas here and most are simple to add I'd think :) Too bad you guys don't work for the company at the VP level :)

Yes, the fork spring thing seems like a no-brainer ... For some of us, just sell the bike without the springs as the ones in the bike are useless :( and most of the other ideas could have been incorporated about 2 decades ago and made the bikes alot more comfortable and durable :(

On the TXC models, all they had to do was leave \ put the tab on the bottom of the frame as on the TEs and the stock Kickstand could be purchased for it ..
 
I agree, I think they are missing the boat on:

1.) Right off the the get go make an oversize modular tank (You have to make a mold anyways). You can't tell me that the engineers can't design a tank along with other modular sections to sell that could be bolted on? There is plenty off room under the Wr 125 tank. What if it was molded and already tapped on both sides for two additional sections that could be bolted on? All ya had to do was buy the oversize kit?
It stinks when the guy you just passed, passes you back after you have to stop for fuel.

2.) Get these larger bore kits out fast.

3.) The orange glow co. does a good job of aftermarket stuff.

4.) Get a clothing line going.

I understand that you don't want to take away too much aftermarket stuff.

Would be nice to have a set of polished hubs?

Typpyt
 
Stock tanks are too small. I think husky in 08 and 09 were worried about their weight and made the tanks unreasonably small under the guise of efi having greater fuel economy. Well that is not always true and we are left with limited range on a bike that is 3-4 kg's heavier than KTM for insatance.
Hubs are gigantic.
 
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