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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Vid, climbing my AJP

27 sounds good to me for going through the woods. I know I don't use the 40 something my bike has and would guess I'm using at best 10-20. If you "feel" comfortable going 20 mph through a section of woods and any bike will do that, you aren't going to use/need 25 more hp to go 30 mph. I think at least I know for me in the woods I have a comfort level I ride at and no amount of HP is going to make me go faster. Bike and rider comfort/control will but not HP. I'm old and don't race so other views my be quite different.
 
john01 said:
27 sounds good to me for going through the woods. I know I don't use the 40 something my bike has and would guess I'm using at best 10-20. If you "feel" comfortable going 20 mph through a section of woods and any bike will do that, you aren't going to use/need 25 more hp to go 30 mph. I think at least I know for me in the woods I have a comfort level I ride at and no amount of HP is going to make me go faster. Bike and rider comfort/control will but not HP. I'm old and don't race so other views my be quite different.
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The only competitor for this bike is a wr250r. The wr is street legal but costs 700 more, 50 pounds heavier, and has crappy suspension and brakes. With all that being said, i felt faster on my wr then my te. Mostly because the power was easy to use and not all in a limited rev range. On the wr no matter where you were with rpms it was good to go. The pr5 is a bargain and fixes all the shortcomings of my old bike and retains the good points.
 
Tinken said:
Where's the wheelies? We want to see the Motosportz wheelies!

27hp isn't bad, about as much hp as a stock 2011 te449.
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surprisingly useful 27hp at that. Kinda ideal for woods riding, enough to get it on but not so much you are fighting it.

- I'm going to race this bike next years at the Idaho City ISDE Qualifier 2 day. I plan to do well on it. I look forward to the suspension and handling for that long ass race. (230 miles)
 
Motosportz said:
Totally different. The PR4 is much slimmer and flickable as well as being smaller overall. I looked up the power on the XR250 and it looks like it has a HP or 2 on the PR4 and about 5-6 less than the PR5 (250). Suspension and handling is much better on the AJP IMHO. Lets hook up for a demo ride.
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Would that I could but another bike in the garage wouldn't sit right with the wife. The reason I ask is that my secondary bike is an xr 250. For all of its faults as a race bike, I can go surprisingly fast on it. The downside is that I can actually use all of its 20 horses in most situations and fall behind my riding buddies on hilly terrain above 3rd gear. I dont use nearly the hp my yz 295 has, and frankly I find the smaller, slower bike more fun. Even 5 more ponies on my xr and I think I could embarrass a few KTMs that I ride with. It sounds like the PR 5 already fits that bill nicely.
 
wonderspoon said:
Would that I could but another bike in the garage wouldn't sit right with the wife. The reason I ask is that my secondary bike is an xr 250. For all of its faults as a race bike, I can go surprisingly fast on it. The downside is that I can actually use all of its 20 horses in most situations and fall behind my riding buddies on hilly terrain above 3rd gear. I dont use nearly the hp my yz 295 has, and frankly I find the smaller, slower bike more fun. Even 5 more ponies on my xr and I think I could embarrass a few KTMs that I ride with. It sounds like the PR 5 already fits that bill nicely.
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Sounds like selling your husky was the wrong move looking at the bikes you have left.
 
rancher1 said:
Sounds like selling your husky was the wrong move looking at the bikes you have left.
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Maybe, but I doubt it. The husky wasnt going to lose 20lbs very easily and I enjoy the xr much more for many reasons, speed not one of them. I have a hunch that when Im done with the yz, it has a chance to be a very, very good bike, and with the wonder of craigslist and ebay, its there for the same price I sold the husky.
 
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