• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Best Husky for trail riding?

mnb said:
2013 TE310 - 37.4
2013 TE449 - 37.4
2007 KTM 525exc - 36.4
2003 Husky TE610e - 35.6

Most women are shorter than men. So it's even more difficult for them to get into off road riding than it is for me, a 5'11" tall man with a 29" inseam.

I know that there are people with longer legs. Or that are 6'100. That's fine. I just want a wider range of seat heights. One height does not fit all any more than one spring weight suits all or one size of jeans fit all.

Anyways, I'm derailing the thread, it's just a subject that annoys me quite a bit.
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Husky made a TE250 low version for just that reason and after hearing this over and over and no one bought it. :excuseme: they also make a low seat that fits all these newer 125 / x-lights.

http://www.motorcycle.com/manufacturer/2012-husqvarna-te250-review-91322.html

Compared to the mechanically similar TE310, the TE250 built for the U.S. market has a seat height two inches lower (35.5 inches) to better accommodate street/commuter riders.

so IMHO they did not "They just limited their customer base a little more." they actually listed to customers and responded. On top of all this if a short guy or women wants a high performance bike they need to buy one and get it lowered. There is just not a big enough market to support this need and most fast women want a modified race bike not a play bike so have no issues with lowering them if need be. If you don't need a high performance low bike there are gobs of options.
 
Motosportz said:
Husky made a TE250 low version for just that reason and after hearing this over and over and no one bought it. :excuseme:
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Exactly!:confused: Worse still, magazine testers pigeonholed the bike as a "beginner" ride, even though it is actually leaps and bounds ahead of the Japanese counterparts that it was put up against. I think that that sort of helped kill it right there.
 
Dirtdame said:
Exactly!:confused: Worse still, magazine testers pigeonholed the bike as a "beginner" ride, even though it is actually leaps and bounds ahead of the Japanese counterparts that it was put up against. I think that that sort of helped kill it right there.
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Take a not well know brand (husky) and make an odd low model for a very small group of customers and you have a low selling bike. And yes, the mags helped misunderstand it. But you cant fault husky for listening and trying to deliver what the customers asked for.
 
Motosportz said:
Take a not well know brand (husky) and make an odd low model for a very small group of customers and you have a low selling bike. And yes, the mags helped misunderstand it. But you cant fault husky for listening and trying to deliver what the customers asked for.
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Not knocking the design or concept. I got to ride one myself, and thought the bike would really sell like gangbusters, because there are plenty of short people out there that might really enjoy a good handling, snappy trail bike that didn't weigh a ton. It's the magazines that I am displeased with. I feel that they really did the bike an injustice. Also, I feel that the bike wasn't marketed very strongly to its intended target. I know that advertising has not been a strong point with Husqvarna in the past few years. Take a bike like the new Honda 250 street legal trail bike. That model will probably sell quite well, as it is a well known brand with a large advertising and marketing budget which they give a generous portion of to the magazines that will be testing their product. Just sayin'....:rolleyes:
 
My Mrs lowers everything She buys. Her KTM was set down 2in and so was Her dr125se. That is the first I have heard about a low bike.
 
The WR 144 is hands down the biggest bang for your buck IMHO..... Like Kelly showed in those great vids, it wakes up when you gas it and purrs along when you are in tight single track stuff.... They handle like a dream and float over the toughest stuff.... As far as the height thing goes, I'm 5' 8' and I just lowered the sag a little bit and it did the trick for me..... In the end it's up to you on what you want..... I have an 03 KTM EXC250F and rarely ride since I bought my new Husky last June.... What ever you do, I hope you make a decision that you can live with....:cheers:
 
i got a 360 an im 5'6" i had a lowering link made by a cnc friend of mine.:thumbsup:
if there was more choice other than sherco or gasgas for low rides then it would attract more people.
the gas gas pampara is very popular for that reason and its on ith umpteenth revamp.
good on husky i thank you for listening to us shorties.
i vote my bike for me is the best trail ride...:cool:
 
lankydoug has a point you buy the bike on reputation and then customise it to suit, like cars with standard speakers for some its enough for others its not, performance and suspension set up are all base settings for you to return to.

he raised his i lowered mine each to there own
 
juicypips said:
lankydoug has a point you buy the bike on reputation and then customise it to suit, like cars with standard speakers for some its enough for others its not, performance and suspension set up are all base settings for you to return to.

he raised his i lowered mine each to there own
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It's much easier to raise things. You can only lower so much.
 
K5PL5 said:
Any dealer who ordered new bikes under this sale will get rebates on their current stock as well as the ones they ordered. Those who didnt take advantage of this will be hatin life trying to sell the bikes on their floors.
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This is my understanding too. The CR 125 that I will be purchasing is still at the dealer waiting for the rebate process to go through for the dealer---then it's mine.
 
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