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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Made the switch !

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Rearwheelin said:
I don't know why anyone else would buy different , in the future !
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Because we want something unique and different not just a rebadged KTM which we could have already bought and been riding all these years had we chose to. Because we like the feel of linkage. Because we like how huskys turn. Because we like uber reliable robust 125's. Cuz we like having choices and not ride the same bike everyone else is.

As for the vid, cool but pure hype and totally hollywood type editing. No thanks. I like real vids. Also as they were gushing about the 2 stroke (which don't get me wrong I love) they forgot to mention how it cant qualify for a main at a MX or SX race. All bikes are a tradeoff. Ride what works for you. I like both 2 and 4 strokes and own both.
 
Motosportz said:
Because we want something unique and different not just a rebadged KTM which we could have already bought and been riding all these years had we chose to. Because we like the feel of linkage. Because we like how huskys turn. Because we like uber reliable robust 125's. Cuz we like having choices and not ride the same bike everyone else is.

As for the vid, cool but pure hype and totally hollywood type editing. No thanks. I like real vids. Also as they were gushing about the 2 stroke (which don't get me wrong I love) they forgot to mention how it cant qualify for a main at a MX or SX race. All bikes are a tradeoff. Ride what works for you. I like both 2 and 4 strokes and own both.
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This one was pretty hollyood too !
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPxBHOyW7U&feature=youtube_gdata_player
 
Rearwheelin said:
It's a bran spanking new XC-W 300 , not much on the to do list on this one. Skid plate , hand guards, cooling fan and maybe bar risers. I havn't road it or sat on it yet :) It has only been fired during dealer prep. It will probably just sit in the garage like the rest of my bikes did lol[/quote

Congrats on the new bike. I ride with a couple of guys on ktm 300s, your mods sound like a good start but you are about 20 items short of a normally set up ktm including all of the ones I have ever seen in the woods.
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Baby steps first. Some people feel or like lots of aftermarket. The xcw 300 is light years away on the trail from a 511.
 
Motosportz said:
Man I wish that 449/511 platform got the upgrades and love it deserved. Is a great bike as is and could have been a bike others were chasing if put on the fast track development cycle like a MX bike.
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The right tool for the job is allways my goal . I really enjoy finding strong points in new bikes and modding accordingly . The xc-w is a heck of a start. It allready will go 3mph in first gear and tops out at 90 mph or so right out the box wich is good. I don't do the DS rides because the gearbox takes alot of the joy out of the 449/511, that and I have allways feared 4t rebuilds and the cost and time to do them. Im thinking long term parts and maintenance . I have bought several unique mad to the bone bikes in my time and they are hard to sell and eventually go away. Good tools stand the test of time and why many people own them they perform great for intended purpose and are hard to beet. The experience of the ride and not the brand is what I want, I just could not wait until 2015
 
Motosportz said:
Because we want something unique and different not just a rebadged KTM which we could have already bought and been riding all these years had we chose to. Because we like the feel of linkage. Because we like how huskys turn. Because we like uber reliable robust 125's. Cuz we like having choices and not ride the same bike everyone else is.

As for the vid, cool but pure hype and totally hollywood type editing. No thanks. I like real vids. Also as they were gushing about the 2 stroke (which don't get me wrong I love) they forgot to mention how it cant qualify for a main at a MX or SX
race. All bikes are a tradeoff. Ride what works for you. I like both 2 and 4 strokes and own both.
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Watch Millville closely there was a two stroke racing in the 450 class.
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Rearwheelin said:
The xcw 300 is light years away on the trail from a 511.
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No it is not. Great bike for sure but so is the 449/511 and almost every other bike made in the last 5-10 years. I ride with guys on KTM 300's and 4 stroke 350's all the time and don't feel outgunned at all. Ride with a dude a lot with a brand new 300, we are very similar speed and we are neck and neck with me on my 511. There is one area we ride a lot and there is a big gnarly hill full of deep fist to head sized rocks littlered everywhere. there is no run up to it, tight right and straight up a very long rocky climb. My 511 blasts a new hole up that hill and the 2 strokes like the KTM300 really struggle to get traction at the bottom and get the momentum needed to gain speed and get up the hill. On my 165 (2004 BTW) in the tight woods I slowly leave him. New bikes are all so good it really just comes down to the pilot and how well they have the bike setup for them regardless of which bike. I'm very happy for you and your new machine but lets not get all crazy here. I would be just as fast on a well setup 2000 CR250 husky as I would be on a KTM300. In fact my 02 WR250 was one of the best bikes I ever owned. I have a 86 WR400 with 45mm zokes and disk front end. I took it out several times with my buddies whom I ride with a lot and guess what, good buddy on a new KTM350 could not keep me in sight. ALL bikes are tradeoffs one way or another. If you can learn to exploit the good in a bike your right back at your regular trail speed no matter what bike as long as it is setup well and working right. I used the amazing motor, lack of a need to shift, stall free ability, and suprising turning on my WR400 to make up for the subpar brakes and big feel.
 
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