• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I got Panniers on my TE511

Filled up and drained right in. Topped off the bikes tank and filled Rotopax up and no leaks.

Right now I have one of my bike straps holding it and its staying in place , locked in. The strap runs under the pannier brackets and seems to help support them better because the lift on the brackets :thumbsup: I might try some quality rubber bungees from the commercial truck supply store later on. To fill the nomad , I mean Rotopax I just unhook the wrap around part of the strap and tilt up the pax, no need to completely unstrap ... What next :thinking:


Red color in the rear is good safety :D
 
It's way tooo hot to ride lately , maybe a night ride to break her in . Its supose to be 109 today in Bakersfield. :(. The good news today is my garage doesn't smell like gas , still no leaks on the tank :)
 
Looks like I got the go ahead to night ride this evening from wife . I will be heading to the Greenhorn mtns then over to the Domeland Wilderness ( Sherman Peak radio tower , 10,000 ft elevation ) , drop down and hit the rincoln/cedar cyn , back up and over to Pearsonville for fuel , catch the 14 south to jawbone cyn rd , over the piutes , fuel in lake Isabella and head home via kern river cyn 178. By myself , wish me luck :) no work on Monday .
 
Kern Canyon Highway 178, Heading to get it dirty and try to break something...

Arrived at destination , traction test...

Edit : Details: Details:On 6-30-2013, the Kern County Sheriff's Office was notified of two missing motorcycle riders in the area of Black Gulch Campgrounds. Volunteers from the Kern Valley Search and Rescue responded as did Air-5. The motorcycles of the missing riders were found near the Freeway Ridge Trail. Air-5 checked the area and located the two riders near the Kern River by the White Water Tour Camp. The riders, Christoper Mackenzie, 21 and Richard Macguire, 20, made it to the campgrounds and received assistance from campers. Search and Rescue members made it to the campground and brought both subjects back to Highway 178. The motorcycles the subjects were riding became disabled and they walked back to the river looking for their campsite. Both subjects received minor sunburns and were mildly dehydrated but neither subject was injured and they did not require medical attention.

Dam ! Give me 25% of what the chopper gets !

One more picture before she gets dirty :banana:


Mr California King snake wanted to keep my eyes peeled for rattlers, he is hungry... :eek:


Made it up to piston hill... Its a local memorial to a fatality...


Used my Trail Teck 800 lume LED helmet light for the first time. It F-ing Rocks :thumbsup:

A couple pics of the trail :D



Hit my header going threw this, panniers cleared :D



Love my dome light :thumbsup:


The Husky Velcro straps were perfect and they have a eye hook for a bungee ...

This is what I had in them .. bunch of tools , saw, CO2 tire inflater, chain lube and baby wipes .


Exhaust shield worked perfectly .


This can is coming off when I get a new clutch cover. Its a oil can for splashing oil. It leaked on me so I was forced to splash oil or breath oil smoke off the exhaust...


The Rotopax/custom nomad worked perfectly and holds a full gallon easy. The panniers are tough and did a great job. They are out of the way and only noticed them a couple times :thumbsup:
 
Now that the pannier setup is done it's time to do the rotopax setup with no panniers. I will use the same fender posts just different brackets. I really like the Xtra gallon of fuel :) ... Even with the panniers I wore a10- 15 lb pack pack lol
 
SDPUTTER said:
Those things are rad! I'm wondering what kind of Warp Factor you can achieve? I'd drive to Bakersfield and pay good money to see flames come out of those things while surpassing 120 mph:notworthy:
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lol , yeah I have heard the rocket booster coment from a friend lol :)
 
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Yeah yeah , just wait till I put some boost bottles in them and do 70 to 117 mph roll on's in 4 seconds LOL
Then me and Tinken will run for pinks hahaa
 
Two bungies and it's on ! Not as clean as the nomad tank but will be good enough .... Need to make one custom bungie hook for the left front and ready to burn fuel. :)
 
This bungee routing works great, rotopax stays put good. I'm going to build a pannier frame that sits on top of the rotopax instead of making brackets that bolt to the sub frame and fender plastics, much easier and no drilling or removing plastics for this accessory :thumbsup: .
 
What a great way to add fuel capacity. If you needed to you could stack a second tank.

Caution if that is a one way vent you are using it could cause over pressure in your fuel tank. That is not good.
 
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