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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

European vs. Japanese Dirt bikes?

Part of the appeal, at least to me, is the fact that in some states it's not hard to get a plate for a Euro bike. I bought a Yamaha WR250 a couple of years ago and the friendly folks at VaDMV told me there was no way I'd ever get a tag for that bike. That was right after they handed me a tag for the Husky WR300.

On the East Coast just about every off-road pumpkin bike has a tag on it. We don't have the same riding opportunities that our western brothers have.
 
reveille said:
This was a new YZF250 with the new backwards motor. Yes the older designs were better but it seems the new ones are iffy at this point.
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I think it's a 250 4t thing. I don't know of any 250 4ts that you can bounce off the rev limiter for too long and not pay for it. My son's backward 2011 450 has been reliable much more so then his 450 Honda that had the typical valve clearance problems. Of course 450s typically don't get revved as much for as long. I think a big part of KTMs success is that they kept developing two strokes.
 
One recent change that could influence which bike we buy is the strength of the dollar. It's getting stronger which means lower prices depending on the relative strength of the euro and the yen.
 
At least where I live off road seems like a dying sport......young punks are all four stroke guys......old smart guys ride two strokes......KTM has had the smartest marketing strategy plain and simple.....and was smart in killing the red bikes and does seem to have, put more blood back in the husqvarna crown......hate them or not they are pretty smart......
 
I'd love to ride a 2t but the short range and poor fuel mileage kill that dream. I'm at least 100 miles between fuel fills.
 
lankydoug said:
One recent change that could influence which bike we buy is the strength of the dollar. It's getting stronger which means lower prices depending on the relative strength of the euro and the yen.
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Doug I wish the prices of bikes would drop, but I doubt they would drop significantly if they did. Look at the prices the new Husky's are going for today. They reflect what KTM has been charging customers for their bikes for years. I don't see the Japs being in any position anytime soon to majorly compete against the Euro woods bikes and help lower the price. :cool:
 
If I could trade my 310 for a 14'+ yz450 I would in and instant. The one I trail rode fit my style much better......hopefully they make a 450fx, if they do I'm dumping the husky
 
lankydoug said:
One recent change that could influence which bike we buy is the strength of the dollar. It's getting stronger which means lower prices depending on the relative strength of the euro and the yen.
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I had no problem with fuel mileage on the 300, it would do over 100 miles on the stock tank. Course I spent quite a bit of time jetting the keihin.
That being said the bike is sold and I have a new Beta 300 RR on the way. The strength of the dollar had a large impact on that decision.
 
Rob578 said:
I had no problem with fuel mileage on the 300, it would do over 100 miles on the stock tank. Course I spent quite a bit of time jetting the keihin.
That being said the bike is sold and I have a new Beta 300 RR on the way. The strength of the dollar had a large impact on that decision.
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I was 15 years old when it took about 4 zillion yen to make a dollar. I had a paper route for 7 months and bought a brand new yz125 for about $1,000 :banana:

Maybe those days will come back...not likely lol
 
lankydoug said:
I was 15 years old when it took about 4 zillion yen to make a dollar. I had a paper route for 7 months and bought a brand new yz125 for about $1,000 :banana:

Maybe those days will come back...not likely lol
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That's funny.... I bought a used IT400 with 50 miles on it for $700
 
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