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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

6500 miles and the TE511 is still rockin hard...

Motosportz

Motosportz

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Have not ridden the 511 much this summer. Rode off road til they closed it because of fire danger then rode my street bike as it is to hot so little DS happening. Took it out and met CF member Brandon (KTM500) and did some DS and trails on it yesterday. Reminded me what a great bike it is. Ran perfect, smooth, fast, awesome zipTy suspension. Great bike. I know many of you view this platform as BMWs red headed step child and a POS but its been a great bike. As an owner with many miles on it I wish this platform had been developed as it is very good.

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Thanks for the update Kelly. I purchased a 2011 TE449 in July and have been enjoying it except for as you said the heat but that's done now. Definitely read many of your posts earlier about it when considering the purchase.

Took it up to Tamihi B.C. a few weekends back. Got stock at the bottom of a gnarly climb. No easier way out. Attempted three times (I'm bad at big climbs anyway). Finally got off the bike and walked along side from bottom section. Dang thing pulled me up the hill to a point I could get some momentum and start riding again. I think the CTS factored in here but I was expecting it to dig drenches instead of climbing. Stock 15/51 now but changing to 13/51. Sure, I'll lose top end but 60 is fast enough for me on this plated dirt bike.

So far my exhaust is stock except for a de-cat matched with racemap 2. Only gripe is the bulging exhaust when paddling up hills. Would like a smaller one but won't accept the noise from an FMF.
 
Each time I have seen this bike I have wanted to say it has not been ridden but taken on location for photo shoots! It looks like it just came out of the crate! With farkles added of course! :thumbsup:

We need a sticky thread with your cleaning regimen :applause:
 
2wheeler said:
Each time I have seen this bike I have wanted to say it has not been ridden but taken on location for photo shoots! It looks like it just came out of the crate! With farkles added of course! :thumbsup:

We need a sticky thread with your cleaning regimen :applause:
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I'm good at detailing but this bike has lots of love scrapes and I ride it hard. Its no show queen thats for sure.
 
I totally agree Kelly!
Im about to hit 200 all offload engine hours on my TE449.
It is just shy of 6000km.
I've only opened anything on the engine three times, twice to check valves (which never move) and once to check and retorque the flywheel screws.
Original clutch, original piston, original torque limiter.
Never been out of the frame.
I've ridden it hard, I've trials ridden (to the best of my limited ability in tight bush), I've done flatout beach runs, drowned it in a river and it has never let me down. Ever!
I've replaced a buggered gearshift lever and various bearings (wheels, shock, swingarm)
I replaced the plastics and everything else is just consumables like plugs, filters etc.

I was pretty keen on selling and 'upgrading' to something newer (Sherco maybe) but to be honest, I'm far too I love with the way this bike is so good at everything.
It is perfect for me and the places I ride.

This is a strange realisation for me because with the faulty original fuel mapping, I really did hate it.
Since fixing that, I've never looked back.

It's looking more like i will put a piston in and check the head, bolt it back together and ride on for another year or so.
I'm still pissed off at KTM for not keeping the model and developing the platform further.
The top mounted linkage rear suspension etc are all good ideas and deserve to be used again.
 
I'm still lovin mine and have no plans on selling it. It's been a rock steady machine and responds well to the right modifications. I wouldn't go racing with it if I didn't trust that it will get me back. Even though I now have a dedicated race bike, I think I'll likely still run it at a couple of races to finish out this season.20150525_111531.jpg
 
Someday Kelly will let me juice up his 511 power plant with a pcv and see a whole new machine.
 
Tinken said:
Someday Kelly will let me juice up his 511 power plant with a pcv and see a whole new machine.
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Do you typically modify fueling and timing or just fueling with the PCV. I just had a PCV installed and dynotuned on my GS.
 
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