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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
610 realizations
- Thread starter miketv
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It can be summed up in two words: Cam Chain
It is mentally retarded for a bike like this to consume a chain every 5000-20000km. Other small issues with the bike are easily dealt with, but this for me would always be a totally unacceptable ongoing issue. Hopefully the 630 will not be afflicted with such problems.
While I am at it, I'd like to be fair...
I passed over the Yamaha Tenere because of the cheap garbage suspension and wheel set. Forget that it is $2K more than the 630. Great motor let down by a lousy package marketed to the wannabe adventurer market. Same deal with the KLR and DR except they don't even have the redeeming feature of a good engine. KTMs are nice bikes if I decided I wanted a road registered racing bike. BMW... don't even get me started on what I think about paying the premium on the brand for a product (regardless of how good or bad it is) that is made in friggin' China!
Xcuvator
Husqvarna
Pro Class
My WR250 has a Husky owners manual wet weight of 236.1 LBS. The Husky manual weight of the 610 is 309.7 dry and finally my TE450 is said to have a "kerb" weight of 259 without fuel.
They are probably all lighter than real life weights, but for comparison seem reasonable to me.
Oh and the 610 may be a little heavy, but there is just something cool about doing single track with it. Especially in the timber, where you can almost feel the sound it makes. With the suspension set for the riders weight it is actually quite nimble for such a big girl, IMO.
Daniel508s
Husqvarna
AA Class
denny;118825 said:
That is a good question. I would say at least two...just in chase one breaks down.
My wife would have a different answer
Xcuvator;118974 said:
I thought you were referring to the Yamaha WR250R. There's a Husky WR250, but is there a Husky WR250R?
FWIW, the TE weight is a bit of misprint. That's actually the wet weight. Real life weight is apparently around 317 lbs fully fueled - without any accessories of course.