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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Switching the positions of air box and fuel tank

Theo

Theo

Husqvarna
AA Class
Here is a summary of what the Italian guy says at the beginning:

«This is Thomas Chareyre's bike, a completely new bike, which we started to develop this year; it has the peculiarity that the positions of its fuel tank and of its airbox have been reversed, compared to the other bikes of our range.» Then he shows the airbox and, at 0:41, he adds: «All this has been done in order to get a better weights distribution, a better balance of the bike and a better nimbleness. Until now the tests we have carried out and the first races of the season have proved that the bike runs much better.».

He didn't simply say that it seems to be better; he said that it runs much better!

Yesterday, T. Chareyre qualified first in the first World Championship event and today he's won both the races. Thanks to that solution?
http://mgmtiming.azurewebsites.net/report/00000001_fim supermoto grand prix of france/s1/pdf/s1 - gp classification - classification - 2014-04-20 18.16.15.pdf

Their other rider (Vermeulen) has also won both the races:
http://mgmtiming.azurewebsites.net/report/00000002_supermoto european champ. france/sm2/pdf/sm2 - overall classification - classification - 2014-04-20 15.56.24.pdf

Please notice:
-the holes on the front number plate at 0:34; they've probably been made to let the air flow reach the airbox,
-that at 0:38 they were filming the standard bike, not the new one.

BTW, have you noticed that in that championship there is a guy -Pavel Kejmar- who uses an Husky? I've just found it out.
 
Incredible that a brand like that is not yet very comercial, at least on america(when I say america I refer to the whole continent)
 
Here in Italy many people with the usual CRF supermotos are switching to TM.
They say that they are a blast on the asphalt but less nimble than the CRFs in the dirt sections.
They also say that they are too little reliable, that there are too few aftermarket parts for them and that the OEM ones are pretty expensive and not so easy to get.
In short, they seem to be performant, beautiful, exciting, expensive, problematic bikes.
 
How interchangeable are the parts with other brands that you know? I mean, are parts from KTM, Husky, Honda, etc that fit those machines?
 
AFAIK they make the frame and the engine, so I don't think that there are many interchangeable parts.
This is their factory, shown by a cameraman who speaks a language I don't know (probably from the Northern Europe) and by Alex Serafini, former supermoto professional racer:
 
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