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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Huh...a future Husky SM bike announced

Sorry I like it.
Would like a bigger tank though. ESPECIALLY I like the 17" front wheel . I desperately want one one one my Strada. Why make it a street bike and put a pain in the butt 19" wheel on it.
We have a TR Strada AND a KTM 690 Duke. The KTM motor is powerful (read mental)and crappy rough throttle response and vibrates noticeably ( not impossibly) . The Strada is sufficiently strong but not a firebreather but the motor is so smooth in comparison.
The ktm has THE most comfortable seat Sally or I have ever sat on. You really can sit on it all day. This one looks like the Husky seat...uncomfortable.

BUT IT WILL VIBRATE. If you like the turbine smoothness and power delivery of the TR650 motor you probably won't like this one. And you WILL have to fit fuel controllers to richen up the throttle caus the KTM is lean to the point of pain in the butt .
HOWEVER if it is a genuine supermoto ( well just motard really) then the motor will be brilliant. Backing it into a corner and powersliding out will be possible and fun ( once refuel mapped)
 
Greg Jetnikoff said:
Backing it into a corner and powersliding out will be possible and fun ( once refuel mapped)
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That was easy as pie on my bone stock 630 before I got it opened up and running well.

But that's because of the crappy Pirelli Diablo tires that came on it... :p
 
Greg Jetnikoff said:
Yeah but the 690 KTM motor will do it on motard slicks
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You lay anything down and sit on the outside of the seat and it'll do it, but that's not the fast way through most corners short of the long straights into hairpins, and I'm not doing that on the street, too many unknowns...

I've ridden on and with a few Beakers and SMC's and I was well on par with them on the 630.

ETA: now on a long open stretch, they could pull away from me a bit, but in the twisties I was always right with/ahead of them.
 
I wasn't suggesting you do it on the road, just that you CAN. The duke will genuinely lift the front and slide the rear at the same time without any effort. This is why Sally rides her's with the fuel solenoid setting ( KTM call it a MAP switch but it just controls the rate of throttle opening and closing), set on rain mode...LOL
 
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