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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Are you going to get the new 449cc 2011

If I wanted a BMW I would go and buy one :)
Lets see what the engine parts/rebuild costs are compared to jpa bikes or the 2010 Huskys.
 
I won't because I doubt I will ever by a 450 again in my life. My next bike I will convert and build a CR300 for 2011 or 2012, depending on how good my CR144 will be doing next season.
 
I'd definitely be interested in either a TE 449/511 or TE 310 if Husky had decided to spread out the gears just a little. The six-speed ratios on both are some of the narrowest transmissions, five or six speed, being produced. The new six-speed is narrower than the five speed G450X.

That might work for racing only but limits DS abilities. I guess I'll be going with one of KTM's EXCs.
 
Sparrowhawk;115342 said:
I'd definitely be interested in either a TE 449/511 or TE 310 if Husky had decided to spread out the gears just a little. The six-speed ratios on both are some of the narrowest transmissions, five or six speed, being produced. The new six-speed is narrower than the five speed G450X.

That might work for racing only but limits DS abilities. I guess I'll be going with one of KTM's EXCs.
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That's why I was asking about it ages ago as my '09 450 was pretty limited on the road and I was hoping for an improvement. The information that was coming out from some people at the time was that it would be 5 speed but with a wider spread than the old 450's 6-speed box. Looks like that was wrong on both counts - the only saving grace might be if the engine's really smooth and happy at high RPMs and you don't mind riding it like that, then you could do a decent speed on the road. Not sure what that would do for engine life though...
 
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