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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Beast Mode - WR500 Yamaha

Had a great 70 mile ride on it yesterday. Setting the rear suspension and putting a new tire on transformed the bike. Rear end works great and planted. New footpegs made standing EZ and confident and gave me so much more control over the bike. The bike will idle up any hill in 3rd. It is amazing but expected. After some suspension, ergonomic adjustments, and learning how to exploit the bike it works very well for me and was able to keep it at the front of our 6 man pack. Something fun about the old guy (me) keeping a 1992 monster out front of the "kids" on their fancy new machines. (Beta 300, TE310, TE511, YZ250, WR165). I was really happy with the bike overall and REALLY looking forward to the lectron as it is going to be the icing on the cake. Fun stuff.

First carnage of the day, Ken missed the ramp when unloading and raked his shin down the extruded aluminum ramp. Looked super painful.

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The beast

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Fantastic day until this happened to my buddies YZ250...

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I rode out and got a tow strap and we towed him out. Got home at 9 but everyone is OK and no bikes left in the woods so all good.
 
Motosportz said:
Had a great 70 mile ride on it yesterday. Setting the rear suspension and putting a new tire on transformed the bike. Rear end works great and planted. New footpegs made standing EZ and confident and gave me so much more control over the bike. The bike will idle up any hill in 3rd. It is amazing but expected. After some suspension, ergonomic adjustments, and learning how to exploit the bike it works very well for me and was able to keep it at the front of our 6 man pack. Something fun about the old guy (me) keeping a 1992 monster out front of the "kids" on their fancy new machines. (Beta 300, TE310, TE511, YZ250, WR165). I was really happy with the bike overall and REALLY looking forward to the lectron as it is going to be the icing on the cake. Fun stuff.

First carnage of the day, Ken missed the ramp when unloading and raked his shin down the extruded aluminum ramp. Looked super painful.

20150419_101802.jpg


The beast

20150419_180308.jpg


20150419_181809.jpg


Fantastic day until this happened to my buddies YZ250...

20150419_170429.jpg


I rode out and got a tow strap and we towed him out. Got home at 9 but everyone is OK and no bikes left in the woods so all good.
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guess your buddy didn't check his sprocket bolts:banghead: tell him to slop some lavender oil on that booboo:thumbsup:
 
No idea why side case is off or if the parts are in a box somewhere in the lady's garage. Now the mystery begins, I have a feeling it may take a lot to get her up n running...
 
Teambowles said:
No idea why side case is off or if the parts are in a box somewhere in the lady's garage. Now the mystery begins, I have a feeling it may take a lot to get her up n running...
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Hey, if I wanted to hear about Hondas I would have started a thread about hondas... ha ha ha... Just laughing at thread drift and Rayrays upsetness of it.

Anyway, yep, to bad the side cover is off, will need a bunch of parts and all the bottom end / trans bearings at the very least. That said these bikes are not hard to tear down and do that. You are starting at zero cost so still should come out OK. The completeness and stockness of it makes it seem worth doing to me. You will also have the piece of mind that all the trans bearings are new and the motor was just gone through.
 
I like to butcher the english language, my teacher parents loved that :) I can't keep up with the kids these days and their "totes hilar" crap. ha ha ha
 
Wow those new huskys are pretty good. They can almost keep up with my 92 Wr500 ha ha ha. Buddy Mike bought a new FE250. I liked it more than he did but he got used to it and liked it by the end of the day.

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sure isnt going to hurt! well maybe you but isnt going to hurt the performance! i bet it runs harder up top
 
Already rode it around some. Same super smooth power all Lectrons have. Love it already. Real ride tomorrow. The throttle pull is so much nicer, that alone is going to be nice.
 
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