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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Welcome to the forum! Introduce yourself here!

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Hey Coffee,

Great job on the site and I look forward to reading and learning from the knowledge of others on here. I am from Australia and have an '06 TE450 and have just put my son on an '09 TE250. Now that we have two bikes of the same kind makes maintenance that much easier like filters and so on. I must say they also look pretty good sitting next to each other on the trailer. The photos if they load up are of us riding last weekend. Keep up the good work.:applause:

TEHusky
 

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TEHusky;13607 said:
Hey Coffee,

Great job on the site and I look forward to reading and learning from the knowledge of others on here. I am from Australia and have an '06 TE450 and have just put my son on an '09 TE250. Now that we have two bikes of the same kind makes maintenance that much easier like filters and so on. I must say they also look pretty good sitting next to each other on the trailer. The photos if they load up are of us riding last weekend. Keep up the good work.:applause:

TEHusky
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Welcome, TEHusky:thumbsup:

You're right about the maintenance issue, and the fact that the two Huskies look good on the trailer. I'm hoping my husband gets a 610 for his next bike so we'll have a matching pair, too!



WoodsChick
 
TEHusky;13607 said:
Hey Coffee,

Great job on the site and I look forward to reading and learning from the knowledge of others on here. I am from Australia and have an '06 TE450 and have just put my son on an '09 TE250. Now that we have two bikes of the same kind makes maintenance that much easier like filters and so on. I must say they also look pretty good sitting next to each other on the trailer. The photos if they load up are of us riding last weekend. Keep up the good work.:applause:

TEHusky
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Thanks :cheers:

Nice looking son, he looks a lot like mine.
 
WoodsChick;13579 said:
Welcome to CafeHusky, oregontrail:cheers:

I used to have a WR250f, too, and I bet it would have been a lot more fun with a 290 kit in it:D

WoodsChick
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The 290 really works great, able to drop the rear sprocket to a 49. It's got an FMF sx powerbomb and Ti muffler, Quickshot, PowerNow, Vortex ignition, and it's plated. :eek:We have some real nice single track in Southern Oregon a 250 is a lot easier to ride than a 450. But over in Eastern Oregon and North a 450 plus is good. :doh:
 
new guy in

hello cafe husky members, i am carl from kentucky. my wife and i own a bike shop called gateway cycles. looking forward to answering member questions about husky and their bikes as best as we can from the dealers perspective. i do ride a bit, but admittedly need more riding time in off-road v. the mx background i have. have run the sm610 a bit and really liked that a lot! we are prepping a left over 450 for me to demo on the next half decent day we may get in kentucky in december....

talk to you soon! carl r:)
 
carlr220;13836 said:
hello cafe husky members, i am carl from kentucky. my wife and i own a bike shop called gateway cycles. looking forward to answering member questions about husky and their bikes as best as we can from the dealers perspective. i do ride a bit, but admittedly need more riding time in off-road v. the mx background i have. have run the sm610 a bit and really liked that a lot! we are prepping a left over 450 for me to demo on the next half decent day we may get in kentucky in december....

talk to you soon! carl r:)
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Welcome to CafeHusky, carlr220! We look forward to your input:thumbsup:

I, too, really like my SM610 a lot:D



WoodsChick
 
Hi all. Long time 430 fanatic here. Looks like a great site. Lots of interest in the older stuff, mods, upgrades, etc. I've got a few 430 projects going and I'll share as I learn how.
 
Picklito;14044 said:
Hi all. Long time 430 fanatic here. Looks like a great site. Lots of interest in the older stuff, mods, upgrades, etc. I've got a few 430 projects going and I'll share as I learn how.
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Welcome to CafeHusky, Picklito:thumbsup:


WoodsChick
 
atkmadman;14050 said:
I just picked up a 1976 husky 360 automatic does any one know what type of oil to use in transmission?:thinking:
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Hello, and welcome to CafeHusky, atkmadman:applause:

You might get a better response to your question if you ask in the main forum and/or the vintage forum:thumbsup: Good luck with your new vintage treasure!



WoodsChick
 
Hello my name is Jim Owens and its nice to see so many Husky folks out there.
I ride an '08 TE510 and '05 TE450. I used to race pro AMA motocross now I love the long endurance fun of the Baja Desert and any where else in the dirt.
Great job Coffee on the Husky site.

We will talk soon.
 
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