• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2010 or 2009?

sharpie1

sharpie1

Husqvarna
AA Class
It's time to replace the '05 TE510, I can't decide if I should try to get 2010 TE450 or try to save a few bucks on a leftover '09. My '05 has been incredibly reliable and still runs awsome but with 15,000 miles or so I feel it's only a matter of time before something catastrophic happens. Are the changes on the '10 that big, are the KYB's that much better? Bills MC in Salem, OR has a leftover '09 on Ebay with a buy it now price of $5895, that seems like a steal, I wont have the cash for 2 weeks and that Ebay bike I'm sure will sell easily so I wont fret too much about that steal. Deciscions!:confused:
 
I haven't ridden the '10 model so I can't say how much better the KYBs might be (and I believe the swing arm was shortened too), but I'm very happy with the way my '09 handles. There are a few other differences at least in the UK models, for example the headlight is much improved if that matters to you, which it does to me as I often have to ride home in the dark on public roads in winter time. So I bought one of the '10 headlight units and fitted it to my bike, which wasn't too difficult to do.

Is there any way you can get to test ride an '09 and a '10, either at a seller or maybe some kind person on Cafe Husky who lives close to you would let you ride theirs? That's probably the only way you could be sure whether you think the '10 is enough of an improvement to be worth the extra cost, but I'm pretty sure you'd be happy with either bike.
 
sharpie1;82773 said:
It's time to replace the '05 TE510, I can't decide if I should try to get 2010 TE450 or try to save a few bucks on a leftover '09. My '05 has been incredibly reliable and still runs awsome but with 15,000 miles or so I feel it's only a matter of time before something catastrophic happens. Are the changes on the '10 that big, are the KYB's that much better? Bills MC in Salem, OR has a leftover '09 on Ebay with a buy it now price of $5895, that seems like a steal, I wont have the cash for 2 weeks and that Ebay bike I'm sure will sell easily so I wont fret too much about that steal. Deciscions!:confused:
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I think the Marzocchi forks are great with a revalve and think Husky went with KYB for cost reasons not performance. I am sure if we worked at Husky and tested KYB and Marzocchi side by side they'd perform very close and the choice would likely come down to cost.

I say get the 2009 and save some cash. BTW, the 2009's look better anyway.

Now if you were looking at the 250 there is a lot more to consider.

NC
 
NumberCruncher;82816 said:
I ... think Husky went with KYB for cost reasons not performance.
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I was actually told that by the salesman before I bought my 09, but I wasn't sure how much faith to put in it as the 10s were still not due in for a little while at that stage and I was deciding whether to wait or not so I figured it was probably in his interest to play down any differences. Doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't true though, and as far as know they've been straight with me about everything else.

I'd be curious to hear from anyone who's ridden both 09 and 10 as to whether there is a significant difference in the forks, but I'm certainly very happy with my zocchis even without a revalve. :thumbsup:
 
Not and apples to apples comparison but....My new KYB sprung machine actually responds to clicker adjustments. One of the guys I let ride my bike noted how stiff the front was so I backed them out today for giggles. Going from 11 clicks in to 2 made a world of difference for me. Can use the whole stroke with no mid-stroke hit. My 510's stock Zokes felt the same no matter where the clickers were set and would choke on high rate hits, note-they were also open chamber unlike my KYB's. As NC mentioned, once the Zokes are worked over by a professional, they are awesome.

I did get a little time on F2G's 09 txc today. Those closed chamber Zokes didn't feel bad at all. His clickers are backed all the way out.
 
I really like the 50mm TC zokes. My KYB's are good to but something about the Zokes works for me. Several of my bikes, Jakes bike, Shanes bike... they all work real good.
 
Hi Sharpie1. 15,000 on the old girl is good. What needed to be done to her during this period, how many revalves. new pistons, rebores etc. I would love to know when the mechanics needed touching up.

Cheers.
 
sharpie1;82773 said:
It's time to replace the '05 TE510, I can't decide if I should try to get 2010 TE450 or try to save a few bucks on a leftover '09. My '05 has been incredibly reliable and still runs awsome but with 15,000 miles or so I feel it's only a matter of time before something catastrophic happens. Are the changes on the '10 that big, are the KYB's that much better? Bills MC in Salem, OR has a leftover '09 on Ebay with a buy it now price of $5895, that seems like a steal, I wont have the cash for 2 weeks and that Ebay bike I'm sure will sell easily so I wont fret too much about that steal. Deciscions!:confused:
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I'd hang on to what you have, if it breaks beyond repair, just borrow NAGAs :p

(a person he knows)


If you are happy with your bike, and don't require the latest efi technology, you may want to go 2006/7.
 
ghte;83326 said:
Hi Sharpie1. 15,000 on the old girl is good. What needed to be done to her during this period, how many revalves. new pistons, rebores etc. I would love to know when the mechanics needed touching up.

Cheers.
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Absolutely nothing that wasn't self caused. The worst was I put too long of a bolt in the valve cover that cracked the exhaust bearing and it exploded in the top end, luckily I found all the pieces so it was no big deal.
 
Assuming I have a working one at any given time!

A have a nasty habit of letting the worst mechanic in the world work on my bikes....:lol:


Coffee;83335 said:
I'd hang on to what you have, if it breaks beyond repair, just borrow NAGAs :p

(a person he knows)


If you are happy with your bike, and don't require the latest efi technology, you may want to go 2006/7.
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OK, pretty much a done deal, I'm getting the '09 TE-450 from Dan and Ann. I could save some dough by going to Oregon but I'd rather support MotoXotica. Whenever I've needed anything, Dan has got it for me quick. The FI scares me a little but I guess I'll keep reading here to figure it all out. Can't wait to pick up the new ride.:D
 
sharpie1;84560 said:
OK, pretty much a done deal, I'm getting the '09 TE-450 from Dan and Ann. I could save some dough by going to Oregon but I'd rather support MotoXotica. Whenever I've needed anything, Dan has got it for me quick. The FI scares me a little but I guess I'll keep reading here to figure it all out. Can't wait to pick up the new ride.:D
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Good on you for supporting your local dealer. :thumbsup: i think you will love the bike. My buddy bought a TE510 last year, knows nothing about EFI. Had the dealer (Bills) install the power up and do the iBest before he even picked it up. LOVES the bike and had done nothing to it but ride it and change the oil. Pretty fast guy coming off a KTM 450 and says this bike is way better. I rode it yesterday in tighter single track and was amazed how well it worked. Way to much power for tight woods but workable.
 
Motosportz;84562 said:
Good on you for supporting your local dealer. :thumbsup: i think you will love the bike. My buddy bought a TE510 last year, knows nothing about EFI. Had the dealer (Bills) install the power up and do the iBest before he even picked it up. LOVES the bike and had done nothing to it but ride it and change the oil. Pretty fast guy coming off a KTM 450 and says this bike is way better. I rode it yesterday in tighter single track and was amazed how well it worked. Way to much power for tight woods but workable.
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Well, not totally local, still a three hour drive for me but my real local dealer is close to useless, they are more into selling Victories than helping out with parts and what not.

I'm supporting you too, indirectlty through Dan though.:D

I may need to get another Motoz tire once the stock front wears out, I've had one on the front of the 510 for over a year and it still tracks great. Now if you only carried MT-43's...:thumbsup:
 
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