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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Zip-Ty Racing Videos

Yeah that 449 is underpowered.......Bonds 2nd into turn one on a basically OEM 450 against well developed top level team bikes from the other brands.
 
Thanks for youtube video of the race. In regards to the 1st Video 449 being underpowered. The bike isn't under powered it seems like it has more to do with Bonds still nursing an injury & a lack of quality time spent on the bike.

In regards to the 2nd video. This is how we do it here in the southwest part of the US. The 449 seem to have plenty power leaving the pits as well as there is the speed limit in the pits. The rocky & hilly terrain may seem to make the bike look unpowered, but it looks like the traction was no question was there!

Here in southern part of Nevada & California a lot of parts of the desert which consist of rocks (boulders in some cases) sand washes, deep woops, silt (very dry & dusty dirt) and sometimes the 110 degree heat. These types of terrain has no mercy on bikes and riders! Believe me!

I will be at the Worcs race in Primm NV. (California/Nevada stateline) on Feb 26-27. I'm going to make it point to keep watch how competitive the bike really is. I think the bike is going to do very well this year as well as turn some heads!

....and currently waiting for a phone call from my dealer telling me that my 2011 449 has arrived!
 
I'm sure the solid traction of the CTS system had a lot to do with making it easy for him to get off the line well.
 
I can tell you guys, there is no other bike with so much traction and grip as TE/TC/TXC 449 on the market. I ride a TE 449.

/ Klas
 
First, thanks for the videos. I wonder if Husqvarna will change the gas tank for 2012. It looks like refueling with gallon milk jugs is somewhat more difficult, especially spilling gas all over. I surmise that center of gravity issues prompted this design, but it seems a bit unconventional. I like the bike (have been Husky loyal since 1968) but wonder about the gas tank. Would welcome any Husky brother / sister opinions that may enlighten me. Thanks!
 
It's brand spanking new, first model year. So aftermarket support is virtually non-existant. I wouldn't expect that to be the case 6 months from now given all the hot press the bike is getting.
 
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