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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'14 TE310R weird voodoo: brakes & wheels

Mehusieni said:
My front brake line snapped in half once on my SMR 450. Was at a local stunt spot with a friend and did an endo from like 70 km/h when suddenly front brake lost pressure. The bike was tilted a little bit in the air and I barely saved it. Hopped off the bike and didn't see anything wrong with the brake. Friend rolled up and said I was leaking liquid somewhere and saw that like brake was barely hanging on. Somehow the brake line had moved so that it could hit my brake rotor and the thing chewed the brake line in half. My line routing was completely normal so I have no idea what caused it:excuseme:
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If I had to guess what happened: I'd say that your clamp that holds the brake line to the fork guard was slightly loose, so that every time you compressed the forks (from bumps, hitting the brakes) the slack in the brake line ratcheted down, and was now rubbing on the rotor. Eventually, the rotor wore through the line- and, voilà, no brakes.
 
Trenchcoat85 said:
If I had to guess what happened: I'd say that your clamp that holds the brake line to the fork guard was loose, so that every time you compressed the forks (from bumps, hitting the brakes) the slack in the brake line was now rubbing on the rotor. Eventually, the rotor wore through the line- and, voilà, no brakes.
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Well, bought a used brake line from a Yamaha DT 125 but a week later crashed the bike in traffic. Some car pulled out in front of, wrecked the front end and sent me flying. Hit the windshield head first and a another parked car. Went to hospital. I was pretty much fine but couldn't walk. I'm all good now but still waiting for the insurance to buy the bike from me. They offered 3000€ but that's way too low in my opinion because of all the aftermarket parts I had on it (Akrapovic, Excel rims, new magura clutch etc.) so we're still negotiating. Got a killer-deal on a 2008 SMR 510 and picked it up. I also think it's better than the 450 for the type of riding I use it for.
 
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