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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC 2 stroke vs 4 stroke

LandofMotards said:
A TC250 has the crazy mid range and explosive hit your thinking when you say 55hp. Thing is with the TC, MSRP is about 7300. Threw it out there more because of that and it delivers hp I'd imagine would work out there in the dunes. Are you keeping the 449/511?
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Yup keeping the 449/511's they're all set up for sm, thought about converting them over also but I'd rather buy a bike strictly set up for dunes cause of sand that gets everywhere and roaches the chain. 449 has 3200 miles now and zero issues, 511 1900 miles and same just pure fun. I figure a pipe and paddle and run her, still can't find a decent flag mount that doesn't bolt to the axle, may have to have one made. I'm in california and if I buy one I'm thinking about buying in oregon, no sales tax and registration is cheap $1500 savings probably, doing more research but that 300 makes me drool.
 
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Teambowles said:
That's my brothers buddy's bike/business it's called bykas.com he makes a ripping sand bike. They handle great with his front trac straps and we'll the rear speaks for itself. He's got the cr500 and a kawi 500 2t and he's built many others.
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Nice. If I rode the sand a ton thats what I would be on.
 
Btw I've kick started that beast and took a quick ride on it and even with that swing arm the front wheel comes up real fast. Kick starting that thing was a whole lot of fun bout took my leg off.
 
justintendo said:
that old katoom kinda looks like a primary kick 80s husky motor. is that back when ktm had the pipe chain and kicker in the correct places?!?
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Sure is. Feels normal to me! Fun old bikes. Sad there are so many "kids" who've never ridden an open-class smoker.
 
Motosportz said:
Nice. If I rode the sand a ton thats what I would be on.
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He's got a new design now, uses stock swing arm and down sized the paddle, still huge but fits stock bike. Went with a 17 inch rim and uses a re laced rear rim on the front. His new kits are cool but I ride him like a Schwin with two flat tires about his graphics.
 
Not that I've ever ridden one but I agree with Reveille, the FE501 would probably go through sand like butter. A little off topic here but I'm curious which bike you ride more between
the 449 and 511? Is there even much of a difference?
 
jerbear610 said:
Not that I've ever ridden one but I agree with Reveille, the FE501 would probably go through sand like butter. A little off topic here but I'm curious which bike you ride more between
the 449 and 511? Is there even much of a difference?
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I like the 449 better, revs more like a 450 which I was used to. The 511 just seems different, could be suspension set up too but if I only had one it would be the 449. I have 2 adult kids that have been riding them a lot right now, and both fight over who rides the 449. 449 didn't have the flameout issues either, had to mess with the 511 a little more also.
 
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