• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 vs 4 ; Is this an age thing?

I loved my ZRX1100, but it was hard to ride slow! What I really wanted was one of these, but sadly not imported to US....
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I liked the older version King Kenny Edition....

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I like the styling of those bikes and miss the riding position of my old GPz that was comfortable to hang off at speed racing and did in town duties well. Just never needed the big displacement/size.
 
Looks like my 82 w/Dymags but in green and no Unitrack rear suspension which really cleans up the rear end. Seems the European market got a lot of mid displacement bikes that passed us by.
 
Bomber1b said:
New bikes just make you want to ride.

I think we slow down on bikes as they get worn, then we get a new bike and everything works and it is easier to go fast with a bike that works.

You can throw money at an old bike but it will never make it new again, they get better but never new again.
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I hear your words and can understand your points but I do not think this covers everyone ...Probably covers many on this site, but not me or the guys I ride with now. If the riders here got slower as the bike got older, they would no longer be riding their bikes forward and would be pushing them backwards to get as slow as some of us perceive their bikes, coupled with the slow-down attitude you expressed ...

You probably don't notice it, but most people post their bike hours at the ~100 hr mark, maybe 125 hrs or so ... After reading all the negative remarks here so much on these Huskys, its almost like some might be afraid to keep riding ... And that's 100% ok ...It's your bike and your time. I'd suggest go purchase a slower bike that you can conceive as lasting longer and keep riding ... 2t or 4t is really a non-issue and riding any bike is actually OK (I think) ....

My 2 TCs are sitting at 300 hrs...My TXC is at 1200 hrs ... Are they perfect? No. Were they perfect when new? No. Are they slower? Maybe but I don't think so and for about the last year or so, I've been running time trials in semi-gnarly stuff; Meaning I do have actual numbers to compare on my dirt bike riding today... My TC bikes might be toasted tomorrow but it was not till ~150hrs before my bikes felt broken-in and now at 300hrs, I gotta decide to change rings or just keep riding. My Huskies work. These are not soft bikes and can take a licking.

Each day, along with everything else, is only new once. If you are a rider, you'll be riding something, maybe each day. If you are an owner, you'll be shining something. Either way, it should be a peaceful, good time for all involved with their bike of choice. That's all (I think) any of us can ask for.
 
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