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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Snapshots Of The New 501 05/20/18

Dirtdame

Dirtdame

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Broke the new bike in on Saturday with a 100 mile ride. Too much pavement for my taste though. So after doing an oil change that evening, I prepared for a more dirt intensive ride at Big bear on Sunday. Beautiful weather and empty trails greeted me and the machine. I did a nice loop, got really tired, decided the tires need to be replaced before I ride the bike again. Also will be needing some lighter suspension springs and some cushier grips. Everything else seems pretty awesome.




 
Those tires have a high pucker factor rating in the dirt. I bet they are great on pavement though.
 
Huskynoobee said:
Those tires have a high pucker factor rating in the dirt. I bet they are great on pavement though.
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They worked great on some of my favorite sport bike twisties on Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately, they are horrible in the dirt. I run the IRC Battle Rally tires on my TE 450. They look almost identical to the Continentals, but perform nothing like them. Husqvarna would have done well to use the IRCs for OEM instead of the Contis.
 
Wow, you dont muck around DD. The bike looks fabulous. I iuse the new Metzler 360 mid hard and or the Michelin starcross 5 mid hards. Both really great all rounders and reasonable longevity.

Good luck with the new weapon and safe riding.
 
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