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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Beta 450RR test for anyone interested

I actually like the way they look but have never ridden one. A guy at our club has a 2010 I think and that was a heavy bike. They list the new one at 234 lbs... you think that's right? Thanks for the post up I'm shopping :D.
 
john01 said:
They list the new one at 234 lbs... you think that's right?
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No. Dry maybe. Almost all 450 4 stroke e-start bikes are int he 250 range or better ready to go.

I rode the first gen Beta 450 with KTM motor and it sounds like the same deal. Amazingly good in the tight stuff for a bike bike with smooth power and soft suspension. Buddy of mine raced it and liked it but said at faster speed the suspension needed work as it got sloppy and the motor was a little soft. I liked it for the short ride i had on it.

I also borrow this one for a DS ride, it was OK, but kind Meh.

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Thanks. I figured that weight was without air in the tires. I'm into light bikes in my old age so no 450 will do it for me.
 
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