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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Another Husky to our house

Heavyhauler

Husqvarna
B Class
Although I'm pretty new to Cafe Husky, having been a lurker for about a year, I finally purchased my first TR650 in early February, and for me with a few of the mods posted here,it fit my bill and vision of what I wanted in a dual purpose bike perfectly. I had been a dirt bike fein in my youth, having competed in both AMA Hillclimbing and motocross, then for a number of years I owned a number of one off customs and ultimately got into the touring scene, travelling many miles on various Harley touring bikes. A couple years ago I bought a DRZ400s and my son a 350 SXF converted to street legal and we began having lots of fun riding in the woods, but neither were great on the road after a few miles so the search began for a kinder, friendlier bike for me to hopefully do some big miles combined with some off roading. I had tried the KLR on a full day excursion once, combining both on and off road and it was much better for me than the DRZ, and I thought I would probably settle for that, until I realized the Husky could be had in the same price range. After buying one and riding it some over the last couple months and doing the mods, I couldn't be more pleased, so yesterday I confirmed the purchase of a Strada for my son with BroadwayRon. Since we will travel a lot together we can cut down on some of the redundancy of the gear we carry. But to make a long story short, I have never, in any purchase I have made in my life, had a more pleasant experience, than the one with BroadwayRon. He is a class act, and went above and beyond to arrange shipping and take care of the details of the sale, and I really appreciate that.
 
I've been on both KLR and DRZ. While both great bikes they lack the "pop and pizzaz" of the TR650. Good choice and have fun !
 
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