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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Poor Man's new high dollar Beta 450RR alternative?

robertaccio

robertaccio

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Answer,
The 2008 and newer carburated Husqvarna TXC450
comparison- same spec
competitive, race ready, 450cc, DOHC, liquid cooled, 6speed, Keihin FCR carb, 21 and 18 in wheels, high quality EU and Japanese controls and components, estart/kick start, cr mo semi perimeter chassis, marzocchi/sachs suspension, red/wht color combo, linkage rear suspension, Italian, etc etc .
 
Agreed :thumbsup: I loved my 08 TXC450. Terrific bike.

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Yes I believe that there is still a source biz relationship between Beta and KTM. Peirer ind . I would not be surprised if the frame division of peirer ind builds at the least the beta chassis for beta.
Hey verlicchi built the last of the red husky frames for husky, thats normal outsourcing within the local economy.


Tecate Enduro 2010 Team Kawasaki rider Justin Soule' and Team ZipTy Husky TC/TXC450 rider Bobby Garrison checking time sheets at the lunch break. Bobby Garrison went on to OA the event and the ZipTy Racing Husqvarna Team won the team OA as well.
 
I would think that since Beta has been building trials bikes forever that they would also build there own enduro frames. We do know they have used KTM motors in the past and that Beta currently builds some of the KTM 50 engines.
 
Their design is still very similar to orange, if you look close, the lower half of their engine is the same. They make their own parts, but still share many of the same designs. They will eventually over time grow further apart from orange. Besides, I'll take zokes over WP any day of the week.
 
The beta's can be cranked way up through engine mods unlike the new KTMs. When Nick jumped the track into the wash at Gorman last year, it was a real eye opener when he showed me just how much power his race bike had.
 
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