Calling all 2013 TE449 owners - Would you buy it again?

I picked up the engine like new on ebay last year. The 2011 TC 449 bike was parted out when nearly new, it had been wrecked with fork and front wheel damage. So the rest of the bike was dissasembled and sold for cash. Fairly cheap in fact. I bought the engine for 1610.00 shipped. I made that offer and it was accepted.. First thing I did was install a new Torque limiter and swapped the engine in to the BMW. I now have a few old Torque limiters marked with how many hours use and this particular one removed to do some Newton Meter breakaway testing. I have a new one in the box for the BMW engine as well.

Hopefully the Zip-Ty breather mod will make the Torque limiters last longer. So far so good. I haven't rode it that much as I am waiting for a torn rotator cuff surgery from a work injury.

"Zip-Ty if your reading this", can you reflash the BMW ECU to the level "3" powersetting? This power level was developed by BMW for the Husky's and the ECU's are closely the same aren't they. Having more horsepower is always good. It may get you in trouble but more times than not it will get you out of trouble as well.

"Oh" and I call it a "BMWKTMSKYVARNA" but the name Huskybeemer is cool too.

I never leave anything stock. Believe it or not. This is probably the most mildly modified dirt bike I have ever owned!!

Its a daily rider but just a 2 into 1 pipe, K&N filter. Not much else. I've sworn to leave it alone. Here's a pic of my last pro street hardtail bike I scratch built though. It was in V-Twin Mag in May of 07'. I included a picture of my 1966 Plymouth Belvedere, that also gets alot of street time as well. I know this is off subject but its a barrel of fun though, if you like this sort of thing.

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Thanks for the advice Bryce, not sure that I need map 3, this bike is insane enough for me at this stage, my understanding is it is a 'wilder' map, possibly suited to the younger braver man? Stalling is probably more due to the riders ability in my case!
I am in Tasmania, Australia, and my local dealer, Motorworks have been very helpful so far.

It might give it a bit more power, but from what i've heard, it mainly just makes the bike run better. Also, I have my air screw at almost 3 turns out with my idle at around 1900 or so rpm and it never stalls. These things seem to be finicky if the idle is set too low.

Don't we all have other cool toyz?

You only live once, why not live on the edge?

yes i would buy it again

The ecu's are the same, but the programming is different. Powercommander 5 is the best ecu for these engines.

When you get bored with your Huskabeemer -> I think you should strip down your husky engine and add a few key parts to your BMW engine, replace the cylinder and piston with the 511, re-chamber + flow the TC head with TE cams. I have been able to lower the powerband from 5500 to 3500 rpms, 1000 lower than the te510, but where it drops off at 50bhp@8200, the 511 continues to climb to 60bhp@9700 which makes it very linear. With the cases split, we can add my hollow chamber oil flow back mod which recirculates oil directly to the oil reservoir from the top of the engine.

I'll have to see if map 3 is available to my dealer. I'm liking the sound of it!

With a few minor adjustments and updates you get one hell of a bike. These things are a steal. I got my 2013 for $7,000 OTD in June. Even with a few mods I am around $7,500 total into bike. Have not had the oil puking issue yet as I got some good advice on oil levels from Bills in Oregon...super cool group of folks up there! Even if additional mods become necessary I am waaaaayyyy below the cost of a comparable KTM. Love this bike!

Extremely happy I bought this bike