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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Christini

never ridden one, only real drawbacks ive heard from people is that its doesnt always help with slick log crossing and things like that where the front wheel spins and kicks out on you
 
I have ridden them a few times. Work great in the sand but other than that no thank you. I rode a CRF270 (kitted) with the conversion and on the loose sandy MX track it was nice, pulled the front end through corners and tracked real well. In the loose mud it was cool and you could really feel the traction. On slick rocks, roots and stuff it is a handful. In the end I did not think the slight advantages were worth it for me. Had a friend who converted a KTM 250 2 stroke and ended up hating it.
 
I have a number of places I end up with the front wheel in kind of the bottom of a V with the back wheel up the slope and sure would like to try out front wheel drive/assist. I am sure it will be much more cost effective to physically get off a normal bike and re position it.

There must be some sacrifice in the fork to have a drive shaft in there if not in following the ground it would seem in lifespan of components.

I notice the two stroke is now gas gas based not ktm and I missed the brand for the four stroke version.

The military gets some it seems though it didn't say anything about diesel fuel.
 
fran...k. said:
it would seem in lifespan of components.
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the CRF270 i rode had a ton of hard miles both before and after i rode it with pretty much ZERO issues. Seems stone reliable from the people i speak to that know.

the 4 stroke version is a Chinese knock off of a CRF450 in both motor and frame.
 
I liked the one I rode. It was Geoff Aaron's KTM 300, it had plenty of power and did not suffer too much from the added weight. Now that they have a purpose built model, I think it would be really interesting to try. I don't think they are doing a very good job of promoting themselves. I doubt the average guy even knows about this bike.

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Looked at a brand new one on the floor at a small place in Missouri. The price was not bad for what you were getting. Overall build quality appeared to be pretty nice. Bike appeared to me to be HEAVY! And probably not for me. Unless I win the Lotto!
 
Christini is just over the Ben Franklin Bridge from where I live in S. Jersey. I really need to go check out their operation. That aluminum framed 2-stroke looks nice.
 
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