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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
250-500cc Why?
- Thread starter hogwackr
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Gotlabs
Husqvarna
AA Class
I too am a WR 3honey addict. I so badly want to buy more of them to keep one for each day of the week. I don't know if it's the beauty, the power, the handling or the sheer sexiness that is addicting. Regardless, it is the most awesomelyepicgnarlyradicallysweet fun I've had on two wheels ever.
hogwackr
Husqvarna
AA Class
That's my problem......I wan't more of them.......One is not enough......I think thats why I'm single again....
Power. Its fun.
I have to agree about the power. My very first real enduro bike was a 1975 Bultaco Frontera 360, a bike that I bought new and simply adored. When I was first looking to get a 300 back in 2004, I wanted a KTM, but the salesman at the dealership didn't have a 300 on the floor. I already had a KDX220, so a step up to a 300 seemed like a logical choice. I asked if they could get me a 300 and the salesman said that they couldn't and besides, the 300 would be more difficult to start and ride for me, and that it really had more power than I would need. He steered me into the 250 that they had there instead.
It could be logically argued that I don't need any more power than what a CRF150F put out for trail riding, but "need" and "want" are two different things. I never really liked my KTM EXC250 all that much. It had good power for a 250 enduro, and it handled well for a 250 enduro. But in the end, I sold the KTM 250 (and still have my 220 KDX)....and I still wanted a 300.
I also got to ride a few KTM 300s over the next few years, and I didn't find them remarkably different from the 250 models....but then came that fateful day when I got that chance to go to press day and ride all the wonderful Husqvarnas that the company had to offer. When I rode THAT 300, I knew that it was the bike for me.
It could be logically argued that I don't need any more power than what a CRF150F put out for trail riding, but "need" and "want" are two different things. I never really liked my KTM EXC250 all that much. It had good power for a 250 enduro, and it handled well for a 250 enduro. But in the end, I sold the KTM 250 (and still have my 220 KDX)....and I still wanted a 300.
I also got to ride a few KTM 300s over the next few years, and I didn't find them remarkably different from the 250 models....but then came that fateful day when I got that chance to go to press day and ride all the wonderful Husqvarnas that the company had to offer. When I rode THAT 300, I knew that it was the bike for me.
And I miss my WR300 now that it's green sticker season.
Gotlabs
Husqvarna
AA Class
.... My very first real enduro bike was a 1975 Bultaco Frontera 360, a bike that I bought new and simply adored.....
Wow, telling your age.
And I miss my WR300 now that it's green sticker season.
My daughter want's me to move to CA since the riding there is so much "better", but that sticker ordeal is a deal breaker. Well, unless the Suck decides I need to go anyway.
Yes. It has to do with exhaust emissions. The California Air Resources Board requires that all offroad motorcycles manufactured after 2002 pass an emissions standard, then the manufacturer puts the emissions tag on that model of bike. No motorcycle, two or four stroke that has been manufactured for "offroad closed course circuit racing" gets to have that tag. Their VIN number has certain letters and numbers that identify them as a red sticker machine in the California DMV computer system. These machines can't be operated in certain public riding areas at all, but most areas at least part of the year, and a few areas all year round....just not in my area. Here, in Southern California the season runs October 1st to April 30th, just east in the desert, a couple of areas run out till the end of May. I can take my red sticker bike 260 miles to the north and ride it all summer long on the Kern Plateau in Sequoia National Forest.
lankydoug
Husqvarna
Pro Class
If you have an older then 2002 bike can you still ride it everywhere all year long?
Yes. I have two old KDX200s, 1986 models. One is plated so it can go anywhere it pleases, the other one has a green sticker so it can venture onto any legal public riding land, any time. They actually started the program earlier than 2003, but had so many problems with getting the various models sorted out that they grandfathered everything in before 2003. If I had known that was going to happen, I would have bought a KDX220 in October of 2000, but instead I bought a KLX 300 which was a machine that I very much did not like or want to buy. My 2003 KDX220 is of course, just like the 1997 to 2002 models, except that my year model couldn't have a green sticker. Some people were buying older frames for their bikes so they could get a green sticker for them.
wait4me
Husqvarna
AA Class
If you really want to know how stupid Cali is, while looking up red/green sticker dates and areas, I found a law that states now that red sticker season is over in some places (tracks, races and some areas are year round) I am suppose to get a "transport permit" from DMV to EVEN HAVE THE BIKE IN THE BACK OF MY TRUCK!! So far I haven't heard of anybody getting that ticket, but it is stupid. I tried to find out what the fine is for getting caught riding out of season, but no luck. Never catch me alive copper!
That must be a new one. I know there was a law that said you had to have a transport permit if you didn't have your non street legal bike registered for public off road land use. Some of my road race friends didn't like that. They certainly weren't going to get a sticker for their track bikes to ride them on public trails! And none of them ever bothered to get a transport permit either.
Washington just eased up and passed a law so we can plate almost anything. Neeener neener My GG250 will be a street bike shortly.
My GG250 will be a street bike shortly.
wait4me
Husqvarna
AA Class
Washington just eased up and passed a law so we can plate almost anything. Neeener neener
Oh yeh, well you are just gunna wear your tires out twice as fast, so there
lankydoug
Husqvarna
Pro Class
On the other end of the spectrum; In Missouri if it's 50cc or less you don't need anything including a tag. Lost your license? Can't get a license for medical reasons? No problem, hop on a 50cc pit bike and head to work or the bar or where ever... No helmet required on a 50 either. I've seen many a 6'4" grown man heading down the highway or riding around town on a 50. lol