TE/TC 17 TE 150

Thanx guys!

Lil cautious about falling on that knee. It's just a hang up that I'll have to overcome.

Bike ran awesome, real snappy and gnarly. Carved great and not a bike that I have to clutch all the time.

Been running bike on VP2 on 510 main jet.

So,kinda playing with fuels. Yesterday ran 50% 110 pump race gas and 50% 91 non ethanol.
I'm a titch rich on that so prob can drop down to a 500 main.

Blink618! Saturday I installed your single fork spring you sent me. Maxima 5wt fork oil and set oil height to 100mm.
So that is a .52 and .54 spring combo.The .56 spring is lil too stiff. Seemed to work great and I have not yet bottomed. But I did like it.
Had some handle bar twitching at high speeds so dropped forks to second line. That helped some but then went back and tightened the steering stem up more. Got rid of that.

What, no pictures of Evans bike? Doooh!

No, I did not take any. But I think he spent some time at the car wash......

Thats the fuel mix I'm running now too 50/50 vp & 91 with 500mj... works great. Killed holeshot again yesterday. Track had some moto in it and for a woods setup the suspension was little soft on jumps but spot on in woods. Have my forks at 4mm but I'm running GPR helps alot and the spring combo is .42/.45. With that setup 14c 14r 0 preload works well on faster flow rough stuff where you can hit stuff at speed but for tighter slower rocky technical will run 18c 15r. I'm almost stock setup only changes were the shim stack spring oil that I sent ya

Get the suspension dialed and you don't need the GPR.... I was hammering the '18 TE150 today with guys faster than me in the woods and on fast grass track cross test and no twitch at all with my WER set up.

That's true but my Scotts dampener helped me out in a few sketchy moments when I needed extra strength to hold a line on a big deflection... It saved me from crashing when I lacked the retard strength. Norm, you're a horse farrier so you probably have those popeye forearms that can bend railroad spikes.

Can't decide between the te 125 ( and buy the separate 150 kit ) or the xc-w which i can get in 150.
Which is the slimmest, more narrow one ?
I also need it to be lowered a bit. ( only 1.66 cm rider height) Is the Husky easier here with the linkage system ?
(ktm has two different lowering kits in the hard parts catalog for the pds bike)

I have my RK Tech head insert in hand and was thinking about putting blue hoses from Samco on there for a little bling while I had the coolant drained. I see there are two hose kits, one to replace OEM and the other one for bypassing the thermostat. I ride mostly tight single track and the TE150 motor seems to run pretty cool, never comes close to boil over (well at least that I can tell). I'm not the fastest (but respectable for an old man) and I'm wondering are there situations where removing the t-stat on the 150 is needed?

Link to what I'm looking at. http://racebikebitzusa.com/index.php?route=product/search&search=te 150&page=1

You are fine the either way. I left mine in and never had an issue.

Thermostat is intended to quicken warm up, not aid in cooling. If you remove it just remember to warm the motor up before riding hard.

Getting bike ready for this year.

10 min job at car wash and then an hour from all guys coming up looking at bike and asking questions. Guys are starting to know about Husqvarna motorcycles.

Only had five hours on it from last year due to knee injury. Knee is all good and time to have fun this year.

Rode it couple times so far and actually I am up to a 540 main right now and think I’ll land about 530 when gets warmer.

Here pic of my 82 Husky Fox bike I’m building.

Finishing mock up on swing arm and Fox Shox. Made me own snail pipe.

The Fox & Preston Petty front fender bring back good memories from the 70’s.

Darin I'm thinking of riding the Sand booger, want to join me?

Let me see? Is that a dual sport deal?

On another note: my starter just went with only 30 hrs on bike.

I ordered one off eBay for Pigaggio Typhoon 50 for bout $59 with shipping.

If lasts good they are cheap enough to have couple on hand.

There is quite few complaints out there that these starters are going bad.

I also noticed that quite few places are sold out and are on back order.

Here's a link, seems like it's both. There's a trail ride Saturday and a race Sunday. I'm up for the Sunday race.\

http://www.gktrailriders.com/

If you need to cross your TE 150 starter over.

Look for a Piaggio Typhoon 50 or a Peugot Speed Light 50.

Same but a lot less. There are tons in UK plus some are listed as Heavy Duty.

I’m trying one out then go after few more just as back ups.

I see the 19 minis get a dark blue frame, so I bet the big toys get it as well.......