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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

uptite

Slowpoke said:
IMO, You guys need to let go of your issues with the Kymco built motors. They are doing as good or better at building these than was ever done in Varese. The most advanced bleeding edge state of the art motorcycle assembly lines are in SouthEast Asia. I simply haven't seen any of the assembly issues with the new 449/511 engines that we ALWAYS see with the Italian built motors(small extra parts in the oil or on the drain plug magnet, improperly torqued fasteners, all kinds of assembly sealant in the screens etc., etc., etc.) . If there was, there would be threads full of chatter about it. The Italians are great at designing a great looking bike; not so good at assembling them in production runs. Over the last 30 years, the Asians have built factory assembly into an art form.
I suggest looking at the positive side of this- you and the rest of us actually benefit from this decision by BMW to use Kymco.
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I'm old school and have stubborn Swedish blood in me**************************************** It took me 25yrs. to accept the fact that Huskies were made in Italy!!! I won't live long enough to get over this****************************************! Better motors or not, it killed the "Romance" for me and it was George Erl that convinced me to buy my 07 and I'm glad of it. The Beta lets you "build your own" and provides bigger tanks for their bikes, ( I may be wrong but I don't think you can get a bigger tank for the 449/511) and builds their motors in house. Time will tell how good the Kymcos are, they may even be better but I'm staying pissed off anyway, and I'll just keep dancing across the desert on my 610 until one of us simply dies....... Happy Trails.......
 
PALMER84ONE said:
Last sentence: we are benifiting from George of Uptite not being a husky dealer? What the hell are you smoking? And I am not jabbing you, just that statement. Regardless of the Chinese motor. BMW/HNA decided as well as George to move on. Stale Mate.
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I beg pardon... What am I smoking??????????? How on earth did you convert the words I used in that sentence into something about George??????:excuseme: Dude - you may want go back and read it again..........
 
Slowpoke said:
I beg pardon... What am I smoking??????????? How on earth did you convert the words I used in that sentence into something about George??????:excuseme: Dude - you may want go back and read it again..........
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:cheers:
I read it more than a couple times and I know. Also, I am not looking to debate with or jab you but YOU said:
I suggest looking at the positive side of this- you and the rest of us actually benefit from this decision by BMW to use Kymco. [un-quote] < That is one of the reasons George didn't agree with BMW/HNA. So yah, the word BENEFIT from this decision made by BMW suggests we are benefiting from something we are not George didn't agree much with that motor and decision. You might think that way, it is your choice. But hey you know you can only get a company to reduce the price of something you would like them to build for you if you increase your quantity, so the motor from Kymco was produced in a mass quantity for BMW. With all them motors sitting in warehouse they needed a frame to spoon it into, so now you have the Husqvarna with a Kymco motor. They might be fantastic and time will tell, I tend to not go to the .99 cent stores or Harbor Freight to purchase my precision instruments. :cheers:
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I have a digital micrometer form harbor freight that works fantastic he he he :D

IMHO EVERYTHING should be built in the USA, time to get back to it.

someone give me a pile of $$$ to start a USA built motorcycle please. :banana:
 
Motosportz said:
I have a digital micrometer form harbor freight that works fantastic he he he :D

IMHO EVERYTHING should be built in the USA, time to get back to it.

someone give me a pile of $$$ to start a USA built motorcycle please. :banana:
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I had a torc wrench that was just plane wrong so I got a 150$ one, and I would love to see that again! AMEN!
 
Besides a family passed down Triumph 200 Tiger Cub :notworthy: , I had nothing but Japanesse bikes. Sure I liked the Japanesse bikes, but always felt, and read (as a kid in the 80's), that the European bikes were better. Husqvarna being the crown jewel of the Euro bikes imo. I can relate with the others that aren't a fan of Husqvarna having Asian motors, no matter how solid they may be.
 
The engine in the 449/511 bikes is not a Kymco motor. It's a BMW motor - designed by BMW and made by Kymco, under BMW supervision.
 
mnb said:
The engine in the 449/511 bikes is not a Kymco motor. It's a BMW motor - designed by BMW and made by Kymco, under BMW supervision.
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I believe that the 449/511 engine was a cooperative effort of both BMW and Bombardier/Rotax so if dig deep enough you can almost see an American root.
 
rajobigguy said:
I believe that the 449/511 engine was a cooperative effort of both BMW and Bombardier/Rotax so if dig deep enough you can almost see an American root.
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Bombardier is Canada, right...close enough.

Hey, are you guys going to start up your extra generators in HB?
 
Regardless- Anyone that hasn't ridden the new 449/511's should ride one for an hour or so before forming opinions about them. They are a pretty darn good bike and have a very nice smooth power delivery & are the easiest to ride in tight stuff of any of the big bikes I've personally ridden.
They've been in service for close to 2 years now & there just hasn't been very many engine related mechanical issues come up so far - nothing like the older 450-510 big block engines. They sure aren't as vibey as the older engines.
The only thing I think is a step back on them is that they are a bit harder to service the topend compared to the older bikes.
 
Slowpoke said:
Regardless- Anyone that hasn't ridden the new 449/511's should ride one for an hour or so before forming opinions about them. They are a pretty darn good bike and have a very nice smooth power delivery & are the easiest to ride in tight stuff of any of the big bikes I've personally ridden.
They've been in service for close to 2 years now & there just hasn't been very many engine related mechanical issues come up so far - nothing like the older 450-510 big block engines. They sure aren't as vibey as the older engines.
The only thing I think is a step back on them is that they are a bit harder to service the topend compared to the older bikes.
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Having over 2200 miles on my TE511 and owning a 08 TXC450 before this I completely agree.
 
mnb said:
The engine in the 449/511 bikes is not a Kymco motor. It's a BMW motor - designed by BMW and made by Kymco, under BMW supervision.
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Whatever the details are and again... they may be better but Kymco just sounds lame "Kymco" like Costco. Looks dull in print and sounds dull and cheap to the ear... Ferrari... Husqvarna.... Triumph, Bugatti, even Harley, Matchless, BSA Goldstar...... Names that sound and look cool....... Kymco...Really???? Find a cooler name and I might calm down...... I'm sure the bikes are great but the motors should come from some place bitchen.... like Maui, then when you start winning races you can call it the "Wowie Maui" Then I would be happy......
 
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