• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE 310 Graphics

jaro51;42464 said:
I've heard that since Husky uses nice wooden crates to ship their bikes, they have to treat the wood with some sort of pesticide to prevent the spread of bugs and it's the pesticide that reacts with the glue on the decals while the bikes sit in the crate. Both of my bikes (new left over '08's) had discolored graphics that were peeling when I took them out of the crates. I didn't raise too much of a fuss knowing the way I ride, I had a new set of plastic and graphics on order before the bikes even showed up!
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I got a brand new GasGas shipped to me in a wooden crate in 2003. I've ridden the wheels off it, broken everything imagineable on it, thrown it off cliffs into rocks, you name it...and the stock graphics are still firmly affixed on the stock plastic. It can't be the crate, unless Spain uses different pesticides...:excuseme:




WoodsChick
 
I don't think it is the crate either. The replacement ones came in a cardboard box and they peel as well.
 
I wonder why this is just happening now? New technology? Expensive process? Is there anyone out there that does custom embedded graphics?

David

glangston;42465 said:
Not gonna help you guys but the 2010 bikes have embedded graphics. No more peeling cause there's nothing to peel.
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I did actually have the same issue on my 2004 TC450, but chaulked it up to age. Great question about custom embedded graphics, but my guess is that's a long shot at this point. Nice to see the aftermarket guys get on board with that one for sure.
 
fitness2go;42833 said:
I wonder why this is just happening now? New technology? Expensive process? Is there anyone out there that does custom embedded graphics?

David
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dunno.... but they must have done it well because the bikes at the dealer show looked really good. I assume those had the embedded graphics. You could look over the bike pics I took - I put up enough of them.
 
My 08 tank graphics are taking a beating. Think I will get a razor blade and cut off the lower section with the white stripes and leave the logo. The bottoms of my Q's are off the plastic but I will try some 3M spray on adhesive. A dab on my fingure and wipe it on the sticker.

The heat tape was about 60% unstuck on the left side number plate. I peeled it off and sprayed it down with the purple Simple Green, washed it off, did this a few times untill it looked clean, then padded it dry. I sprayed it real good with the 3M super 77 adhesive and stuck it back on. Have not seen it peel up at all. :thumbsup:
 
Well, happy to say Husqvarna is going to warranty the peeling stickers. Yet again, Husky show's me why they deserve to be number one in my stable!
 
Pimp my Bike - TE 310

the work is finish...

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Brilliant.... That's great considering CRF graphics are a dime a dozen. Any perticular CRF, year/size etc?
 
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