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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Knobbies on SM wheels?

When I emailed Joe at CRT to ask if he actually had them in stock I noticed that he changed his eBay auctions for both tires to say "Last Ones" but then the day after I bought those the same size tires were listed again on eBay without the "Last Ones" banner.

It would appear from previous comments that we all have the same size rims regardless which SM we have. I have the 450 and the rims are 3.25 & 4.50 same as the 610.

I'm in the process of becoming a dealer of their distributorship so I will be able to buy & sell anything they sell.
 
kinda curious how did the fatter tire work up front, did you do that because you had to with the rims? seems itd be pretty kickass in the sand type stuff ??
 
@WhiteRocket5, Yes, the Cheng-Shin 755's are about the only 17" knobbies out there so you don't have any choice but to put two rears on the bike, a 4.60 & 5.30.

I finally mounted the Cheng-Shin's last night and then took it for a 5 minute ride to test it out. The only issue I have is my chain is too short so I had to let out all of the air from the rear tire just to get it back on the bike and then air it back up with 25psi. Any more air than that and it rubs on the front of the swingarm and the chain is a little tight right now. But I plan to replace the chain & sprockets anyway so in the future it will have a longer chain so I can move the wheel back. Also, with the taller tire profile the side stand is now useless as it’s not long enough and the bike would just fall over if you tried to use it. As for the height difference between my Pilot Powers and the 755’s I’d say it’s more than an inch maybe closer to 2 inches.

I’m heading to northern WI is ride Dirty this weekend so I’ll let you all know how it goes later.
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The tires worked great! We were in Clark & Jackson Counties in Northern WI all weekend riding the ATV/Snowmobile trails as well as a 10 mile loop single track from hell with various surfaces from hard pack clay to gravel to sand and it was only the sand that was difficult to ride in, the front liked to push and lowsides were a plenty! The wider front tire in the single track was interesting, but then again a 450 on the single track trail is not the right bike, too big and too much motor for very little space.

Only recommendation I would have is to make sure you have a long enough chain that you can move the wheel back in the swingarm otherwise it may rub the front of the swingarm. My chain is a little short so the nubs were rubbing.
 
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