• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Your Last Ride: Where, with what, how'd it go.

(TE511) 5 hours at Carnegie OHV again on March 7th. Perfect weather and traction. First ride on my new Pirelli rear trials tire. I was able to climb everything I could climb with a knobby but it does tend to slide on lose and dusty downhills. Have to keep the tire moving without locking it up. Ran about 6lbs in it.
Running a PCV with my own modified version of the Burson Flaming Balls map. What a riot!

Stall problem solved. It was loose wires to the coil after (sloppy) installation of the PCV. To all the cafehustky readers, sorry I whined like a bit**. I was frustrated.
 
Who cares if you whined, it's good to go now and that's the important part. I put grips on handlebars and blame the whole damn bike :)
 
350 miles of dual sport riding through the Anza Borrego desert and all around it a few weekends ago. The Husky did fine, never missing a beat. I was a bit concerned about fuel on one leg of the journey, but it went 90 miles without having to borrow gas from anyone else.


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Yesterday. New to me 83 XC 500 shakedown ride...

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New511Guy said:
(TE511) 5 hours at Carnegie OHV again on March 7th. Perfect weather and traction. First ride on my new Pirelli rear trials tire. I was able to climb everything I could climb with a knobby but it does tend to slide on lose and dusty downhills. Have to keep the tire moving without locking it up. Ran about 6lbs in it.
Running a PCV with my own modified version of the Burson Flaming Balls map. What a riot!

Stall problem solved. It was loose wires to the coil after (sloppy) installation of the PCV. To all the cafehustky readers, sorry I whined like a bit**. I was frustrated.
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Glad it was an easy fix.
 
Club Car gas cart with back pack blower/2.5 gallons of mixed gas. Blowing goose poop off the newly revealed greens that were under almost 2' of snow at the beginning of the week. Golfers are happy......me not so much. Maybe next weekend Pipestone will be rideable.
 
tntmo said:
350 miles of dual sport riding through the Anza Borrego desert and all around it a few weekends ago. The Husky did fine, never missing a beat. I was a bit concerned about fuel on one leg of the journey, but it went 90 miles without having to borrow gas from anyone else.014 by tntmo2, on Flickr
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I think I saw your write up on SDAR. Started with 4 guys ended up with 2?

 
ray_ray said:
Sounds bad Ben :( ... You, like most of us old guys, know better ... Best to keep the crashing while sober I think ... All that down time, ESP for us old guys, is not a good way to keep our bodies going ... Get well and remember 2-wheelers crash also ...

Ride safe (and maybe a tad slower?) boys and girls ... Down time is a bummer ....
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Awesome photos as usual Ray....
 
Back on the bike in the desert. All good.

Overlooking the Pinnacles outside of Trona.

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Loser of the roost contest!

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Miles of desert..
 

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Last ride was 3/9/14, raced the Sand City 100. Total miles ended up being 76. I raced bar to bar with my nephew the entire race, I made a small mistake in the last 2 miles, stalled the bike and he finished 36 seconds ahead of me. Our overall finishes were 51st and 52nd I was 4th in my class and he was 7th in his class. The course was perfect with long deep sand washes and one road section that I was 5th gear tapped for 5 miles and some real fun tight single track.

Next race is the national Hare & Hound in Murphy, ID 3/23/2014

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MORE STORIES !

Went back to Carnegie on 03/21 (hey, it the closest place to ride and I was short on time). Besides the hills and single tracks, I rode both the ATV and MX tracks. MAN !!! I wish I could jump. The only way an MX track won't beet you up is if you can actually make all the jumps.

Rode a buddies KTM300. Nice and light, OK low RPM, weak mid-range, very nice hook at the top (like the 250's I remember as a kid). Overall, I wouldn't trade. My 511 has, by far, more guts than the KTM... almost everywhere.

I keep pushing the fork tubes up a little farther every ride. The bike handles better the farther up they go. I'll keep going until there's some evidence of the tire hitting the front fender. The raised tubes along with the Coaxial Traction System and my trials tire make the 511 climb lime a mountain goat.
 
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