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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'03 te610e

Norman Foley

Norman Foley

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I pulled the 610 out of hibernation yesterday. I never ride this bike enough, but I'll probably never sell it. It always puts a smile on my face. A little less sexy (Pure Nineties Husky style) than its younger sibling ('06 and up TE610), but can do it all..... from cruising down the road to a nasty East Coast hare scrambles course.

I had a "pride comes before the fall" moment though..... Last Fall I drained the carb and filled the tank will fresh fuel with StaBil. I never put the battery on the Tender. When I pulled it out it fired right up. I was thinking how good that Yuasa battery (The original from '03) was than the Varta the new ones get. I rode around yesterday with multiple stops, all good. I take it to the store this morning and when I go to head home..... It cranks and then dead. I checked the fuses, all good. Then I check the battery, a little tougher on mine, as it's in the rear of the airbox on the old "E". The battery leads all looked tight and shiney, but there was enough corrosion between the connectors and battery to kill the connection. Cleaned it up, got it running and when I got home really cleaned all the electrical connections and put some dielectric grease on them. I'm good to go now!

I took off my stock rack and installed a PMB one with a chainsaw holder. The stock one is going to Fran Bottone to mount on his '01 TE400 (my old bike). I'm ready for trail work now and can doubly scare the "Greenies".... Dirt bike with mounted chainsaw!:eek:

The 125 is at P3 for a another week at least, so I'm going to spend some quality time with the 610!:cheers:
 
Norm you don't pull your batteries when storing your bikes?

I wouldn't mined seeing a pic of your chainsaw holder.

We have lots of windfall here this year and I want to rig up something
for my one Husky to carry my other Husky(chainsaw)
 
HuskyDude;28726 said:
Norm you don't pull your batteries when storing your bikes?

I wouldn't mined seeing a pic of your chainsaw holder.

We have lots of windfall here this year and I want to rig up something
for my one Husky to carry my other Husky(chainsaw)
Click to expand...

I've been lazy with the 610. I always pulled my street bike batteries and put them in the cellar on a tender. I'll pull it next winter, learned my lesson. I'll try to get a pic.
 
HuskyDude;28726 said:
We have lots of windfall here this year and I want to rig up something
for my one Husky to carry my other Husky(chainsaw)
Click to expand...

You think you got trees down? Come on down to the Gulf Coast.
Your battery will be red hot by the time you get here and we still have plenty of Ike damage for you saw on.

Oh yeah, I want to see a chain saw rack too.
 
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