2010 Husky Te 450 Questions...

[Harvooo]

Hey everybody, So I have had my 2010 Te 450 for one season now and have now decided that in time for spring I am going to do a few modifications to it.

Here is how my bike stands today...

So what am I looking to change you ask? I need to adjust my suspension a bit better for my height and weight so things will be a bit better since i'm fairly short.

Next i'm going to get a new set of rubber for it, the Karoo's are just not doing it for me... at all.

I was looking into the Metzeler 6 Days Extreme the reviews that I have read seem like they are a decent knobby DOT tire. If anyone has any experience with them or opinions on other tires that are super aggressive please let me know!

Next on the list is too get rid of the super ugly Black rear fender license plate holder and the equally ugly and large turn signals. Now my plan for this is too remove the black fender part and build off of the white fender bill that is underneath. I intend to mount the license plate directly on the little bill. Fairly straight forward but... The blinker business is not as simple. I have two issues here, one being i'm not the biggest electrical guy around so I do not know what type of plug in the lights have on the other end to connect into the bike so i'm not sure if any universal blinker will work?? But if this is the case then for the rear end of the bike I would like to use a small surface mount blinker on the side of the white bill up beside the brake light.

Maybe something like this but I can't seem to find the perfect one that is small clear or smoke mountable in that place and finally would be the correct hook up for my bike.

Now onto the front of the bike the blinkers are just as large and ugly. I saw the nice ones that were in project white Russian over on supermoto junkie...

After doing some investigating of these they are very pricey actually. I do like the style though, so if anyone knows a cheaper alternative that is similar to these than I would appreciate if you could let me know!

Finally i'm interested in getting a new exhaust for my bike. I was looking into FMF but for some reason they do not have the 2010 TE 450 on their website. I noticed that they do have the 2010 TXC 450 I assume that these bikes would be similar enough for the pipes to be cross compatible but if anyone could confirm that it would be great.

My choice is between these two guys...

Any opinions people?

Anyways thanks for the input on my spring adventure with my bike!

Thanks

Charlie.

 

[OlderHuskyRider]

Congrats, one of the best street legal Huskys ever made, IMHO.

How many miles on it?
Does it have the power-up kit/mods on it?
Have you ridden real hard in the dirt, enough to get the fan to come on?

Great DOT tires for this bike are:
21" Pirelli MT21 80 width
18" Pirelli XCMH 110 width
These tires will give the fastest handling, the 140 rear OEM makes the bike very slow to turn.

Unless your state requires turn sigs, I took mine off and use hand signals.

I put the Euro dBkiller on my stock Arrow and it makes it quieter, makes for good urban, dual-sporting. I don't care for louder exhausts.

See my thread for good stuff on the 2010 TE450
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/dual-sporting-a-2010-te-450-with-cheap-tricks.15347/

 

[Harvooo]

How many miles on it? Aprox 2500km
Does it have the power-up kit/mods on it? Yes I got them installed at my dealer before I even rode the bike.
Have you ridden real hard in the dirt, enough to get the fan to come on? Yes I used the bike for town transportation and to have some urban fun. On days off I would hit some friends tracks and trails.

Also a tid bit of information I went through a huge multi month long troubleshooting process with my bike dying while i'm riding or not starting once it has heated up. In the end it turned out to need a fuel pump replacement and it works fine now. After all this was set and done my gas light no longer works and I have tried re-soldering it to the connection on the fuel system but I still have not found it to work again after replacing my fuel pump. Could it be something with my electronic speedo?


I will look into the tires. I just was going for something the same width but now that you mention it I may look into something a little smaller for it. Not that i'm the most concerned about corner speed but hey might as well.

I am actually in Ontario Canada with our laws and being 19 the police give me a hard enough time about this bike anyways so I was hoping to be able to figure out a good simple and clean light setup.

That is a good idea but on all my other bikes in the past I have had aftermarket exhausts. Would like to replace this one to save a bit of weight, get that extra pretty sound and maybe a little performance increase. Was just curious if they still make a pipe for it. Would be one of the last things on my list because as i'm sure you know the stock arrow works just fine and doesn't sound too shabby.

Thanks for the thread link I have been looking for a good thread since I got the bike but have been unable to find one.

Thanks again for the info nice to know that there are still some people around with interest in these bikes!

 

[OlderHuskyRider]

The fuel pump thing, we solved that here some 3 years ago, fuel pumps not in use can develop a varnish coating inside the tightly-toleranced barrel, and when heat expands the pump, it slowly stops spinning.

140 width tires sometimes go for as much as $30 more than a comparable 110 width, and provide no real additional traction or other benefits, as far as I can tell.

2010 is an orphan year it seems, some different stuff from 2009. If you get an aftermarket exhaust, I'd be interested in your Arrow. I bought a 2009 stock exhaust and it didn't fit.

 

[Harvooo]

Well looks like I was a little slow on the bit with that one then...

You may have convinced me to go with a smaller tire for the rear.

That is good to know, but if I do decide that my stock arrow is not good enough for me then I would actually probably keep it to return the bike to stock if i sell it.

 

[ripnriding]

Congrats, one of the best street legal Huskys ever made, IMHO.

How many miles on it?
Does it have the power-up kit/mods on it?
Have you ridden real hard in the dirt, enough to get the fan to come on?

Great DOT tires for this bike are:
21" Pirelli MT21 80 width
18" Pirelli XCMH 110 width
These tires will give the fastest handling, the 140 rear OEM makes the bike very slow to turn.

Unless your state requires turn sigs, I took mine off and use hand signals.

I put the Euro dBkiller on my stock Arrow and it makes it quieter, makes for good urban, dual-sporting. I don't care for louder exhausts.

See my thread for good stuff on the 2010 TE450
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/dual-sporting-a-2010-te-450-with-cheap-tricks.15347/

OHR,

I'm replacing my rubber pre season and was going to make the switch back to a 140 width for rear...I've experimented with the 130 motoz tractionator and the 120 Kenda trailmaster and find the 130 is a better all arounder....also hooks up better with less wheel spin. What has been your experience for wheel spin with the 110?

 

[ripnriding]

OHR,

I'm replacing my rubber pre season and was going to make the switch back to a 140 width for rear...I've experimented with the 130 motoz tractionator and the 120 Kenda trailmaster and find the 130 is a better all arounder....also hooks up better with less wheel spin. What has been your experience for wheel spin with the 110?

HA...jumped the gun....now you have ME sold on going smaller in the rear...heck, why not....may be even MORE nimble in the trails now...will have to try it! HEY HARVOO...WHERE ARE YOUUUUU hehehehe, I'm in Kingston ONtario man...

 

[duggoey]

I have had aftermarket exhausts on most of my bikes but actually think the stock arrow with the baffle/DB killer in is a pretty good pipe, might be a bit of unnecessary spend. Look out for rubbed through wires especially under the tank and around the frame. Nice bike by the way.

 

[OlderHuskyRider]

OHR,
I'm replacing my rubber pre season and was going to make the switch back to a 140 width for rear...I've experimented with the 130 motoz tractionator and the 120 Kenda trailmaster and find the 130 is a better all arounder....also hooks up better with less wheel spin. What has been your experience for wheel spin with the 110?

The most dominant trait of the more narrow tires, for me at least, is the quicker handling in the tight stuff. The bike just seems to be able to flop from one side to the other quicker with the skinny rear tire. The wider rear tire makes it feel like it wants to go straight and not change directions. I can always get traction with the narrow tires by not letting the revs get too high and the bike stays below the power hit that breaks the tire loose.

My latest recommedation, if you can run non-DOT tires, is the Geomax 51, the pic below is the 110/90, and its a bitch to get on or off the rim, but I believe it can be run flat as far as you need it to, since the sidewall is so short and stiff. I recently bought 2 Geomax 5s1 in the 120/100 size, I figure they will be much easier to get on and off, but they probably wont be able to be run-flat.