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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Barely Legal in So Cal !

So Cal Husky

So Cal Husky

Husqvarna
B Class
so, after growing up in so cal and riding anything, anywhere, anytime, it has come to this........the new TE310, this is a wonderful bike for the money yet not a 450F, my idea of the perfect motorcycle however not legal in my neck of the woods!
the reason behind joining this forum is to find out how to turn the TE310 in to a leaner, quicker, better handling machine, dont get me wrong it handles well now however, needs some love....

having said that im looking for some information that my local dealer could not provide:

what are the best dual sport tires for 70% dirt 30% road?
rear sag settings? im @ 3"
compression / rebound settings rear? - weight is 185, riding is advanced
compression / rebound settings front?
 
The TE310 should be 50 state street legal.

I think you want the rear sag (you sitting on the bike) closer to 4", about 1/3 of the travel.

I like the MT43 rear for roots and rocks. Many like the MT21, Scorpion Pro, D606 for long life street wear, S12, M12, lots more choices debated endlessly in other threads. If you need DOT that will thin the heard some for you.
 
When you want a number like 70/30, you really can't find something that won't compromise one way or the other. To get a decent bite for that 70%, is that all hard pack fire roads? Is it any real single track?

I use a 525 for Dual Sports, my 310 is for woods only. I ride Marshall in a 500KM 2 day Dual Sport each year. We do about 130 true miles a day with probably 20-30 on pavement each day connecting up to all of the Forrest roads and such. The Forrest roads are hard pack and rocky. At the end, the tires are basically shot. Knobs are chunked and such. But I rode it like I wanted with no consideration for the tires as planned.

I could do that whole event on a "Dual Sport" tire if the event is dry and i am willing to slow down quite a bit. That's a major compromise of time and fun. Also your crash probabilities go up off road due to lack of traction and control.

If you are riding true off road that much, just be willing to change tires a little more often and get some kind of hard compound with some type of tread pattern hopefully.

I get good wear with the Hard compound Bridgestone (403 I think?) motocross knobs on my 525.

Suspension on the 310? Set it to stock and ride it for 10 hours or so then start playing with it if it doesn't feel good to you. The stock Zokes and the shock are not to bad so far. I am racing mine the first time this weekend, we'll see after that. I will have a small screw driver very handy and will be playing with my clickers throughout the day I am sure.
 
All of the TE's are 50 state street legal from 06' and up. Make sure you have insurance too. I've been stopped and asked for both. Don't let anyone tell you it's not legal. In fact the last time I got stopped the nice BLM Ranger said "oh yeah, Dual Sports" Tire wise I've been pretty happy with the MT-21's on my 250. They work well as long as there is some moisture in the ground. They are a little slick when it's dry. They last fairly well, and give a decent ride on the street.
 
K7MDL said:
The TE310 should be 50 state street legal.

I think you want the rear sag (you sitting on the bike) closer to 4", about 1/3 of the travel.

I like the MT43 rear for roots and rocks. Many like the MT21, Scorpion Pro, D606 for long life street wear, S12, M12, lots more choices debated endlessly in other threads. If you need DOT that will thin the heard some for you.
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Yep the DOT is the issue here, we repaetedly have them checked by our local CHP, some of the guys have been grinding the "not" off in front of the "not for highway use" that gets them through on a good day. regardless i'm thinking that the 606 rear and scorpion front looks to be the favorite set up in many forums....i reset my sag to 4" so that seems to be softer and helps with the geometry "ride height" probably need to get some hours on the suspension to break it in at this point!

thanks for the info!
 
heres another question, fuel tank? i love the fit and finish of the stock tank on my TE310 yet the range is weak .... my fuel light comes on at around 35 / 40 miles out, any one change theres yet?
 
So Cal Husky said:
Yep the DOT is the issue here, we repaetedly have them checked by our local CHP, some of the guys have been grinding the "not" off in front of the "not for highway use" that gets them through on a good day. regardless i'm thinking that the 606 rear and scorpion front looks to be the favorite set up in many forums....i reset my sag to 4" so that seems to be softer and helps with the geometry "ride height" probably need to get some hours on the suspension to break it in at this point!

thanks for the info!
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I think you have some confusion. Your TE310 is 50 state street legal. It should have all required stickers, nothing to grind off. The pre 2006 510 and down bikes were not street legal. If anyone is grinding the "not" off, it must be some other bike brand/model. Your model is good to go.
 
K7MDL said:
I think you have some confusion. Your TE310 is 50 state street legal. It should have all required stickers, nothing to grind off. The pre 2006 510 and down bikes were not street legal. If anyone is grinding the "not" off, it must be some other bike brand/model. Your model is good to go.
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maybe i was being to vague, if you look at non DOT approved tires they say "not for highway use" on them. some of my riding friends grind off the "not" leaving only "for highway use" as far as my bike goes I am 100% leagal and love that (came off of a red sticker bike and was limited) i just am not happy with the metzler package - MC karoo that came stock, great for the pavement yet slick and pushing in the dirt so thats where i'm wondering what tire package was working for everyone.

we are up in the san bernardino national forest, mostly technical, kind of tight at times and pretty fast and again coming off of a 450F my new 310 handles just OK, still have alot of work to get it happy ....
 
So Cal Husky said:
so, after growing up in so cal and riding anything, anywhere, anytime, it has come to this........the new TE310, this is a wonderful bike for the money yet not a 450F, my idea of the perfect motorcycle however not legal in my neck of the woods!
the reason behind joining this forum is to find out how to turn the TE310 in to a leaner, quicker, better handling machine, dont get me wrong it handles well now however, needs some love....

having said that im looking for some information that my local dealer could not provide:

what are the best dual sport tires for 70% dirt 30% road?
rear sag settings? im @ 3"
compression / rebound settings rear? - weight is 185, riding is advanced
compression / rebound settings front?
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not legal? where are you riding, is it a legal area? that bike is DOT50.

tires? pick one. i'd run full knobs or BT trailwings, no tweeners. if yer advanced trail-wings will take you far in socal rocks and dust but they are VERY street biased. pirelli makes a great DOT dirt biased front tire. i run it on my TC everywhere.

suspension? after you break it in, service it, get everything spotless, reassess, ride with a screwdrive in your boot make adjsutments while warm and repeat over the same hunk of terrain you have issues with. if yer sit-down dual-sporting who cares, it wont matter, leave it stock. if yer hammering on trails with rocks and whoops only you can decide your settings. mine wont work for you and vice-versa.
 
sorry my initial post was confusing, my new TE310 is legal, my old YZ450F was a red sticker bike, I ride in the san bernardino forest area and was getting hassled so rather than stop riding i went to the dual sport and am having alot of crossover issues.......this is why I am poling the site for as much info as possible.

thank you for your input!
 
good choice over the tuna-barge 450, just kidding. esp in SBNF. rode up there many a year. know a lot of trails up there. hit up 3W13 after you break-in and service yer fork and shock, set the clickers and sag to stock then hit the deep rockers in at least 3rd and the rocky setctions too with a small screwdriver in yer boot over and over till it does what ya like. then record yer settings in grease pencil/sharpie on something like yer fork fender, plate etc for later. that'll be yer baseline. comes right off with brak-kleen. bleed yer fork before making adjsutments/testing. pffft!
 
goood times in the national forest up here, lots of single track (i avoid the fire roads) to play on! thanks for the suggestions......
 
they jsut did a re-route off 3W13 too....chopped off a lot of nice stuff! though it was for clearing and dead fall from the winter. rangers said noise compliants so no mas on those nice sections that've been there since before electricity, great, here come more devolpment....grrrr...def need a plated bike up there to link redonda/crab flates/MS trail to other stuff.
 
yep, tell me about it, ive lived and riden up here since 79' alot has changed. still able to be on single track less than 5 miles from my garage so cant complain, on a good day i ride a 20 mile loop on my way to work so thats nice, definately takes the edge off and gets you in the proper frame of mind......
 
Pirelli knobby up front (Pirelli has several DOT models to choose from), Pirelli MT-43 trials in the back, also DOT.
 
Just took a 606 off my 450 because it was horrible in the dirt. I'm talkin' serious suckage. Was very surprised how adversely it affected an otherwise very well-behaved motorcycle. It was a little smoother on pavement but I was gonna hurt myself in the dirt.
 
I absolutely hate 606's...they are almost dangerous...would slide sideways under braking and loose side grip bad...
 
For what it's worth, the Michellin S12XC's dont have the "not for highway use" on them. Just be polite to the badge if you get stopped and I bet they would get the green light. The Michellin AC10's are DOT. They look pretty good, with nice open pattern and side knobs for traction in the lean.
 
So Cal Husky said:
ive been hearing good things about dunlop, anyone run the dunlop 606 tires?
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On my TE610 love them, mileage very high also. I think for the 450 there are other choices such as the MT43 on the rear and Kenda K777F on the front, MT21. All DOT. The K777F is very aggresive knobby for a DOT. Looked like the S12 I was replacing. I don't think the D606 airs down and flexes as well as the other choices on a light weight bike.
 
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