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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

husky bmw hybrid

Horsepower on any modern dirtbike is the least of my concerns. They all produce sufficient power, every Jap bike, every Euro bike.

And I agree that the current gen Hsq 4 stks are overbuilt. Heavy, feel heavy and dont turn as well as the competition. I had one. I tried to race it several times with different configurations. It didn't work for me. Now my Husky 2stk is a different story - I love that bike!:thumbsup:
 
BMWHusky Atlanta;95225 said:
Well Jeff, it is what it is. The current gen 4T HSQ's are over built without a doubt and the most robust OEM thing out there short of a DJH rebuilt KTM 540 being in the running(but not OEM). But I can attest that the G450X engine uncorked and mapped appropriately has better/more power everywhere for me over my previous TXC510 with or without JD jetting kit or Rekluse and riding the new 450 is like riding on an overly well balanced inline 4 in regards to engine vibes. If I could get a soft copy of the dyno runs with my 510TXC vs G450X I would, but there wasn't any place the 510 had a clear advantage, but plenty of places where the G450 did. Think 525 grunt power with the rev-ability (is that a word) of a 450TC or SX and more peak horsepower, not such a bad combination. I've owned a KTM 540 high compression (DJH special), 450MXC, still own a 525SX, TXC510 and ridden every 09/08 HSQ out there, I was unsure about the G450X initially as a "dirt/single tracker" for me after the initial 500 miles. But once I got used to the bike, figured out suspension set-up and added some fine tuning in the power department, I finally have a bike that can kick serious butt in dual sport riding conditions and be very very competitive at the enduro's and hare scrambles here in the SE. I'm riding the G450X everywhere now and feel better on it then any of the others.

The G450X engine has been the strong point of the G450X all along, however it's press launch last year was mis-handled and it was definitely rushed to market and had some first year issues in the fine tuning dept. I'm really looking forward to HSQ's spin on it and exploring the refinement I've not yet dabbled with (hydraulic clutch, different frame configuration, rear linkage, etc)
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lol ... is it really necessary to trash the current line of bikes to promote this new bike? Maybe this salespitch is not needed here :)
 
ray_ray;95318 said:
lol ... is it really necessary to trash the current line of bikes to promote this new bike? Maybe this salespitch is not needed here :)
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Where am I trashing anything? It's like saying the TXC has better power delivery then the TE, would I be trashing the TE by saying that? get a grip. New G450X is a new generation and evidently a few HSQ engineers feel it's an improvement too, so put the nancy feelings in the goochie bag and pull the panties out of the crack and let's go get a beer. :cheers:
 
BMWHusky Atlanta;95348 said:
Where am I trashing anything? It's like saying the TXC has better power delivery then the TE, would I be trashing the TE by saying that? get a grip. New G450X is a new generation and evidently a few HSQ engineers feel it's an improvement too, so put the nancy feelings in the goochie bag and pull the panties out of the crack and let's go get a beer. :cheers:
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Sure and your buying ;) but you gotta take off your cheerleading skirt and hang up your pom-poms because I don't like my cheerleaders with whiskers ...

But I can attest that the Bajaj engine uncorked and mapped appropriately has better/more power everywhere for me over my previous TXC510 with or without JD jetting kit or Rekluse and riding the new Bajaj 450 is like riding on an overly well balanced inline 4 in regards to engine vibes.
 
Juha Salminen will race this new BMW Husky 450 hybrid already tomorrow and Sunday at Spanish Enduro series race at Ourense, Peroxa (May 15-16). Info from Juha's site, seems very excited.
 
ARod2000;96479 said:
USELESS POST!.............without pictures :D
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It seems odd that the color is still black.....:excuseme:


I suppose given the bespoke nature of developing this new bike lends itself to keeping things low key:cool:.....which is understandable


on the other hand.....they could be keeping the cards close to their chests...not wanting to reveal the new color scheme(if there is one) too soon....;)

blue and white ???...is also the same colors as the Husqvarna logo :jawdrop:
 
Maybe there going back to different colors.

Silver 500

Purple or Black 390

Red 250

I am surprised he isn't wearing the Husky Red/Black/White.

There is that Blue/White BMW emblem in the background.
 
Well, if they are going to do that, why don't they just do away with Husky and make it all BMW. This new bike is basically just a Husky version of a BMW. Probable where they are headed anyway. :mad:
 
Still not particularly thrilled with the front fender..........

If they go that route, there will probably be a market for a better replacement made by someone like Polisport etc.......
 
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