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

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Best compromise between dirt and street?

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pmpski_1

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I rode the TE250 to work today because my Buell had a dead battery. It's a short-ish ride, about 20 miles RT, no highway, all under 45.

Not sure if I want to do that again. It was fun but the tires seemed all wrong and the seat felt like a 2x4 after a few miles. I guess I'm out of the seat often enough on the trail that I don't notice how hard the seat feels...

Anyway, I really did like the form factor of the dirt bike on the road, but the 250 isn't the one for me. That one is a dirt bike. So now I have a dirt bike that I can ride on the road, although it's not suited for it and I know a guy who rides his Buell on the trail all the time....But I probably won't do that either.

So, those of you who regularly ride the same bike on the street and the trail, what do you ride? Do you change out the wheels\tires? What's the best compromise?
 
Definitely for the future. Just wondering what other people are riding :)

Oh, and the 250 is a keeper for off road. That one will be in the garage for a long time.
 
In the usa, due to distances and speeds ... there really isn't a good compromise in many cases .... Rubber is the next issue ;(

I'd suggest moving closer to work or UR riding area ;)
 
I NEED a plate. I do not ride my bike to work even though my route would be 45mph and windy through country roads and under 4 miles. Why? I don't want to waste perfectly good knobbies on pavement. My plate is so I can ride on 30+ year old forest service roades that have been grown over to the point of almost being single track. LEGAL with a plate NOT LEGAL without. I want to be able to connect things together that range from gravel gas tax roads to USFS "roads" to County FS roads to private trail. All require a plate accept the private land. Pavement is avoided but sometimes unavoidable.

If I wanted to ride something more pavement orientated I'd be looking at a Husky 630m, BMW 800?, Ktm 6??. But purpose built is always the way to go. The Husky dualsports TE to me are dirtbikes with permission
 
I am trying to asnwer same question with TE 510. first thing I changed OEM knobbies to continental TKC80 twinduro 50 50 tires and now I am almost done building SM wheels with Avon distanzia and taller gearing for more street oriented duty.

one thing that I am still not able to sort out is high speed stability. bike goes in to a wobble at 65mph +
 
john01;108251 said:
"Dirtbikes with permission"...I like that.
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It seems really ridiculous in some cases ... I mean we are riding 15-20 miles sometimes up on the side of the mountain where cars can barely go and should not and really only a few trucks are there and yet we must be street legal like we in the city limits ...

Lots of the roads aren't really maintained (or very little) by the state and yet, we have to have lights and blinkers for the goats and bears to see ....

I'm currently gonna swap tires out on my bike ... Weekends get the knobby, weekdays get a dual sport of some sort...
 
ks9mm;108446 said:
I am trying to asnwer same question with TE 510. first thing I changed OEM knobbies to continental TKC80 twinduro 50 50 tires and now I am almost done building SM wheels with Avon distanzia and taller gearing for more street oriented duty.

one thing that I am still not able to sort out is high speed stability. bike goes in to a wobble at 65mph +
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I first lowered my forks to the lowest point in the triple clamp that helped a ton. Then I bought a motosportz steering stabilizer and that fixed it completely. I picked up my stabilizer used for $300.

When I bought the stabilizer I put the forks back at stock setting

So, those of you who regularly ride the same bike on the street and the trail, what do you ride? Do you change out the wheels\tires? What's the best compromise?
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A drz400 or TE610/630 or any of the crossover bikes work really well. The biggest problem is the tires. I run a mt43 trials tire on my rear and mt21 up front. Seems to be a good compromise for dirt/street while still highly in favor of the dirt. tires still last me 1000 miles+
 
I got no real solutions other than changing out the tres but I rode with a new IRC knobby the last couple of weeks and wow I had forgotten how good a knobby is on its terrain ... On the track, it was like sticking like glue but on the hardtop, it tries to road walk around and actually spins out sometimes on take off ...

The dual sports tires whip a knobby hands down on rocks and water crossing and anyplace that is very hard and slippery also ... I nearly crashed a couple times gassing it a little too hard on wet, rocky uphills ...
 
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