• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 449 gearing change.

Jason Crews said:
I am looking forward to hearing your results with the 49. I spoke with Dan at Motoxotica and he suggested that I go all the way to a 47. He said that his good friend rides a TE449 a lot and has the 47. I hope it is not too much. Oh well, we will see. BTW, I am also going to use the JD tuner to add a little power.
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I have a 49 on my 449 and it's perfect for the riding i do, i put it on for my last desert ride and the bikes top speed was 135kph which is around 84 mph and that was pinned in 6th. i don't do any road riding on it but with the 49 the bike would cruise comfortably at 60 mph no worries at all.
Next time i go back to the desert i will be trying the 47 to see if i can get it up near 150 kph which it should do. The bike is stock no JD tuner with standard Akrapovic exhaust and it runs flawlessly:thumbsup:
 
Just got back from an interstate ride (almost 500kms). My bike is completely stock running map 2 with the Akrapovic slip on , top speed on two occasions was 150km/h & 151km/h & felt like it could of gone a little more but the front starts getting too squirrely for my likings. On one stretch the bike hit the rev limiter @ around 139km/h riding into a fierce head wind.
If Husky made 1st gear slightly lower & 6th gear slightly higher the bike would be spot on!!!:thumbsup: ,
apart from the fact that I lost the fuel filler cap somewhere along a 20km beach/sand dune section, now I gotta strip down the tanks because I get the feeling the rear wheel was sprinkling sand into the tank opening while I was struggling in the deep sand sections :doh:
 
IgnoreTheSmoke said:
If Husky made 1st gear slightly lower & 6th gear slightly higher the bike would be spot on!!!:thumbsup: ,
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That would be the 5 speed BMW transmission which is 1 gear lower and 33 percent higher in top gear. If you get your ecu flashed with Map3, it will make a significant difference to your top speed.
 
I never really though about it, but the reflash did make mine more "road worthy".

A trail ride first for us this fall was a hop onto I-20 so we could get around a river - simple no way to get where we wanted to go without 8 miles down the Interstate. I run -1 on the countershaft and stock rear and the bike is flawless for me. I was able to zip quickly up to 70 mph and hold it steady for that 8 mile trip. A couple of times I would kick it up to 75+ to get around a car and stay with the group. Of course it is working hard at 70, but its 7 minutes... The bike was surprisingly buzz free and felt pretty darn stable.

Would I want to ride the superslab for 50 miles? Heck no...I don't even like doing that on my BMW.

Maybe im crazy, but I would much rather have the bike suited for 1-3 gear trails and be a bit zingy on the highway. That is 98% and 2% use for me respectively...sprocketing down was the obvious choice.
 
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