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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

wth is that?

justintendo said:
looks like a fun little place to rip around. glad theres still companies making steel frames tho.
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It would be a total nightmare for me if Husky somehow got a fat AL frame ... I can see some cracks in my bet for riding the last ITL huskies till I quit but I can make it work out I think. If I was to decide to purchase another bike in the future 2-3 yrs, a fat framed Husky might be impossible for me to own.
 
I might have ridden 1 bike around a small track that had a fat AL frame so I have no idea on how they feel ... The look of the bike with that huge slash (frame) across the meat of the bike just does nothing for me ...
 
that Evo Set is a custom build enduro racer on a base TM125 done by one of the French moto import companies EuroBoost. They are the French importer of Valenti Suzuki and Honda Red Moto from Italy.
This is in the same vein as their other 2 products that are built in Italy Valenti builds Suzuki customs for Enduro racing and Red Moto does the same (Red Moto builds what HM used to build from Hondas) Salvini rides a Red Moto WEC bike.. They turn MX machines into FIM legal enduros they build Japanese "KTMs".

The Honda based enduro machines have more than a few enduro world championships with the alloy chassis (not my choice but it does work)
 
ray_ray said:
I can see some cracks in my bet for riding the last ITL huskies till I quit but I can make it work out I think.
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they have proven to be very strong and pretty much worry free but harsh as they do not give. MX/SX aluminum bikes work well on groomed tracks and jumps/high speeds. I hate them because they are harsh and make the bike really hard to work on. KTM has proven steel frames are just as good or better at SX/MX. Lastly it is odd but aluminum frames are cheaper to build. They cast a bunch of the parts and weld them together where a steel frame takes a lot of parts, welding and manufacturing.
 
I think it's funny the first alum framed bikes were deemed to stiff....but some manufacturers still claim every year the new models are stiffer with less flex & thats better.
 
oldbikedude said:
I think it's funny the first alum framed bikes were deemed to stiff....but some manufacturers still claim every year the new models are stiffer with less flex & thats better.
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kinda like how jeremy mcgrath kept running a steel frame when honda introduced the aluminum frame? after a few years they were supposed to be softened up a tad. i still think it was a scheme to make the bike look cooler and save money in manufacturing.
 
My son's 2011 TM 250 MX stiff frame bike rides WAY softer than my 2015 KTM 350XC soft frame bike :D.
 
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