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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Pictures of your bikes

ramz;23709 said:
As it turns out, I was just working on some panels showing the bags and I finished them this morning:
TE310 Modifications - Bags, tools, et al

I take lots of pictures of myself on the trail using the camera timer; I'm often out there all alone. But my wife took the picture of me in the driveway.
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I saw your comments on the noise of the Arrow Muffler. I just took my Radio Shack meter out and measured and it seems to be in the 80 db range at idle (and I didn't really try and duplicate the test parameters). I checked the test parameters on the CA .gov site and they said the measurements are taken .5 meters to the rear and at a 45º angel from either side....noisy side wins.... Level with the muffler and engine running at a formula level. From what I could see that was around 3250 RPM on my bike, but no more than 4000. "A" weighting and slow response on the db meter. How much does the db killer lower things or have you measured it yet?

Just curious. I read where some local police responding to complaints of street racing wrote tickets on these street ricers that have been modified and the result will be expensive "fix-it" tickets, maybe costing several thousand if you don't do the work yourself. Even though we have bikes it does make sense to not draw attention to yourself by excessive noise.
 
I just took my Radio Shack meter out and measured and it seems to be in the 80 db range at idle
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What bike/muffler are you measuring?

I'm pretty sure the '09 TE muffler is completely different than the '08 TE muffler. Apparently (from the '08 and '09 parts catalogs), all the TE models in '08 used the same muffler and it looks like they also all use the same one in '09, but the '09 muffler is different than the '08. One mufffler for '08; a different one for '09.

I think my stock '09 muffler is somewhere in the 96 - 98 range but I don't have a meter handy to verify. I'll track one down and check stock and modified sound levels soon.


By TE, I mean 250, 310, 450, and 510. The 610 is completely different.

One more edit. I held an '08 TE muffler in my hands last weekend; it was a boat anchor compared to my '09 muffler.
 
08 TE 250 with the Arrow pipe. Yeah, the weight savings was considerable, probably the biggest you can do in one item.
 
heres my ride for 2009!

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Stopped in at Malcolm's on Sun for a Vintage swap meet and went upstairs to say hi to Old Paint. My first Husky, bought new in November 1981, a 1982 430 XC, rode and raced for a few years and Malcolm bought it back and put it on display right back where it started, so every now and then I stop in for a visit. I didn't know George back then or this would be a completely different story...... Enjoy....
 

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Here's my XC bikes for 2009. :thumbsup:
 

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Stroker Ace;23899 said:
Stopped in at Malcolm's on Sun.......and went upstairs to say hi to Old Paint.....
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Stroker, that is one good looking Husky --> :cool:
Is it all stock or did you/Malcolm changed stuff on it (like the golden bits....) ?
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Hello: Thanks, the only thing I did was re-do the stickers, I took them off cut and put them back on the way I wanted and they're still in place. Everything else is the way it came new. Husky's are always really pretty right out of the gate. I'll bet with a good rider, that bike would still be competitive in the desert today. It was really fast****************************************
 
Nice lookin bike there Ninja Nate! I see you also imported one from Halls. Several others here in CO have done the same. Got any good trails up your way that are melted yet?
 
Well, to be honest with you... I have no clue where to ride around here, I moved here last October. So i'm not too sure where the good riding is yet. I would like to do a little bit of hare scramble racing this year though.
 
Couple pics from my ride up Hwy 1 the other day- bet Huskychick knows my secret lunch spot!
 

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