• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 old guy

M

mtdirtbag

Husqvarna
A Class
Greetings from NW Montana; followed some of the threads from Beta specific forums to Cafe Husky and decided to join. After all, there's enough snow in my area to allow a retired guy a lot of time to browse the forums and at this point there is only so much activity to keep me going (although it is growing...).

A little about myself, old, getting slower, was mainly a Yamaha 2 stroke guy the past 40+ years and vertically challenged. Purchased a 2014 Beta 300RR on Nov 1st 2013 & rec'd it 83 LONG days later. So far other than drool I've added Beta sharkfin, slave cylinder guard, Cycra handguards on shortened bars, a TM designs skid plate, map switch, and ordered a P3 pipe guard (although I was able to mount a 09 YZ250 gnarly pipe guard on it for the time being) doesn't make much difference since I can't ride for awhile as it's supposed to get to minus 10 degrees tonight. I won't be adding any more to it until I ride it and learn more about it; my last two YZ's had Rekluse clutch systems but I like to ride them for a while without - I find it helps me know the bike better before adding. The one thing I forgot in addition is a Tubliss system which I will install once break-in is done and I have the spokes bedded. I'll attempt to upload pics of the scoot, we will see if my attempt is successful.

Later, Tom
 

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A few more from the day I picked it up, we have even more snow now! To bad it is overcast, you can see Big Mountain Ski resort from my front yard.100_0850.jpg100_0851.jpg
 
Nice bike, Tom. I also come from a Yamaha background. Rode YZ 250s for 20 yrs before switching to Husky. If I was going to a 300 2-smoker, the Beta would also be my choice. Looking forward to hearing from you once the snow melts up there.
 
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