• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 auto-retract kickstand; who likes them?

It's kind of scary that a bike this heavy can tip over on it's own due to a faulty stand. Picture a small child walking next to the bike and having it tip over on them. You'd think that the manufacturers would figure this out. If there was a documented issue like this on a car, there'd be a recall. Or maybe recalls don't happen until there is a lawsuit?
 
On my '09 te 250 I have been concerned with the likely event of a fall-over when parked by a passing person tapping the bike or when my big dog brushes-up against everything in my garage. So I now hook a bungee cord to the spring loaded kickstand and to the front wheel turned to the left-hand position. This has offered me stability and piece of mind
 
This is a great topic, even though I'm late, the other day I started my 08 te450 in the front of the garage to let flush the oil, went in the house for 8-10 min, when i came back out the bike was backing down my driveway into my jeep (-: , I was like go baby go, good thing it didn't fall over but it was GREAT
 
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