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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

New 2012 Husqvarna Te650 Soon!

Some folks here must not stop at the similar dealers to the one I went to for test ride day. The 650 model on the floor and the model to test drive had so many options frugal didn't apply.
 
fran...k. said:
Some folks here must not stop at the similar dealers to the one I went to for test ride day. The 650 model on the floor and the model to test drive had so many options frugal didn't apply.
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Frugal was meant as 'fuel efficient'. But yeah, they put a lot of accessories and options on them and want you to pay for them. And when it needs service to bring it back to them and pay huge $$ to have them work on it.
 
CJBROWN said:
BTW, seems to me you're on a 640, right? Was in my final 3 choices. Just coudn't find a low-time one at the right price.
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Yup, the enduro model. My KTM is beyond low-time with over 25,000 miles and at some point will need to be replaced. The 690R is the logical choice but I would have a hard time not hating the idiotic, narrow transmission KTM put in the bike. The five-speed in my 640 is wider than the six-speed in the 690. As it is, I am always looking for a sixth gear or have to change counter shaft sprocket for various riding conditions. With the 690R I'd be looking for seventh or eighth.

The 630 is was a better bike in most ways than the 690 once you by-pass things that allow it to pass emissions and it came at a better price. Then along comes BMW corporate wisdom and the 630 goes POOF to possibly be replaced by the motorcycle equivalent of a padded room with soft lighting.

When I was travelling in Europe years ago on my old air head BMW, I became friends with a German mechanic that was married to a redheaded Italian woman. He was very practical, proficient, and calm while she was exuberant, spirited, and a little wild. Both were wonderful people but he was constantly perplexed trying to understand his bride while she simply enjoyed life. These two always come to my mind when I think of the BMW/Husky relationship.
 
Sparrowhawk said:
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Then along comes BMW corporate wisdom and the 630 goes POOF to possibly be replaced by the motorcycle equivalent of a padded room with soft lighting.

When I was travelling in Europe years ago on my old air head BMW, I became friends with a German mechanic that was married to a redheaded Italian woman. He was very practical, proficient, and calm while she was exuberant, spirited, and a little wild. Both were wonderful people but he was constantly perplexed trying to understand his bride while she simply enjoyed life. These two always come to my mind when I think of the BMW/Husky relationship.
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That's some funny shit that right there... :applause:
 
Sparrowhawk said:
When I was travelling in Europe years ago on my old air head BMW, I became friends with a German mechanic that was married to a redheaded Italian woman. He was very practical, proficient, and calm while she was exuberant, spirited, and a little wild. Both were wonderful people but he was constantly perplexed trying to understand his bride while she simply enjoyed life.
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I'll bet she was a great ride though!
 
I have my fingers crossed whatever it is will be surprisingly good like the 449/511 turned out. The 449 is based on a bike that seemed to fail miserably. The 449 version seems well liked by those that have them. Maybe not a top race bike choice but for 95% of us a great much loved mount. I bought mine braced for the worst and was relieved when it was very good. I hope the same becomes true for the 650. They did it once. Maybe the Italian influenced BMW manufactured thing can work again. Fingers crossed.
 
What is this in the background, the bike that the guys are looking at? :thinking:

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"What is this in the background, the bike that the guys are looking at? "
That's Husky's 449 Dakar Rally Bike.
 
QuadExpert said:
just received photos of the te 650.
i will try to upload some pics this week.
the bike looks awesome!!
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Hmmm...and where did you get these photos from?
There are thousands of riders all over north america salivating for the introduction of this model, with mum from Husqvarna. But you have photos?????
C'mon, let's see 'em.
 
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