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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husqvarna's new look

They are a different looking bike and quite a departure from what we have been used to. I was initially shocked when they came out. I figure they are not too bad now in the looks department but in a substance over form equation they are right up there IMHO
 
They don't feel like their predecessors at all, at least when sitting on them and pushing them on the floor. No chain drag. Beautiful worksmanship.
 
Unfortunately the front fender 449 logo is a decal (NOT moulded into the plastic like the sidepanel), as we found out when we wiper brake cleaner across it! DOH!
 
brock said:
Unfortunately the front fender 449 logo is a decal (NOT moulded into the plastic like the sidepanel), as we found out when we wiper brake cleaner across it! DOH!
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I meant the fender was embossed in the shape of the sticker. BTW I found out last night the font fender is great for holding tools when you work on your bike and would be great for an enduro / ISDE card as it has two big flat areas.
 
The Husaberg subframe is a moulded plastic 'tank', all-be-it not a fuel tank. The Husky is still an Ally frame. Some have got away with putting a tap on their Berg subframe, others have found them not to be a sealed unit. I guess the items sold as tanks have been tested so you wont have any issues.
I know Robin at Safari Tanks was quite eager to start designing for the 449/511.
Nothing like a new challenge
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brock said:
I know Robin at Safari Tanks was quite eager to start designing for the 449/511.
Nothing like a new challenge :thinking:
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Yes i have a customer that has some inside info there (safari) and says they are hot on it and have found ways to add more. Always spending stuff though.
 
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