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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Calling all 2013 TE449 owners - Would you buy it again?

Finally got out to the desert yesterday. 20+ years not riding in the dirt I think I have zero skills left. Also my first ride with full boots on. Okay, I give up. Is everyone shifting with the edge of their foot or have tiny feet?
 
I might. A guy nearby races some amateur races on a Kawi 450. Theres a nice gokart track out at Beaverun (Now PIRC) near Pittsburgh. Gonna check that out maybe.
 
I have the stock wheels too so im stoked to do some more dual sport riding. The WR300 aint so good for that stuff..
 
A bit off-topic , but I´m curious on what mile-range do you get with the IMS-tank? Is it a 3,4 or 3,9 gallons?

Because I´ve started thinking trading my TE449 to a WR300, mainly for the better hard enduro
handling. But still wanna go for some offroad riding...
 
AgedFlatulence said:
Finally got out to the desert yesterday. 20+ years not riding in the dirt I think I have zero skills left. Also my first ride with full boots on. Okay, I give up. Is everyone shifting with the edge of their foot or have tiny feet?
Click to expand...
I have the same problem ,its a pain in the arse to change gears with size 13 boots ! the shift lever needs to sit higher and have a longer tip.
 
Mojorod said:
A bit off-topic , but I´m curious on what mile-range do you get with the IMS-tank? Is it a 3,4 or 3,9 gallons?

Because I´ve started thinking trading my TE449 to a WR300, mainly for the better hard enduro
handling. But still wanna go for some offroad riding...
Click to expand...
I ran an AMA national hare scramble which is 3 hours of contstant revving and stuff. Still had a good bit of fuel left. I am actually in the process of swapping with somebody for a stock 2.5 gallon tank because for racing, the IMS tank is unecessary. I think you could do a nice long ride with the IMS tank. The WR is a bit tall so if and when you sort out the suspension, I highly recommend you lower it. Its very easy and cheap to have a competent tuner lower the shock by adding some Ohlins spacers to shorten the stroke. The WR300 motor is so amazing in the woods and rocks. I would choose that every time over the TE for anything difficult.
 
Huskynoobee said:
It does indeed take some breaking in to realize it's potential. My power wheelies started grabbing me by surprise after 400miles. Keep riding, put in good synthetic oil, repeat. Btw, mine pulls great wheelies and it's got stock exhaust and ECU map. Mine can't be reflashed boohoo.
Click to expand...

Huskynoobee: Why can't your ECU be reflashed? Is it a Calif thing?
BTW: I live right up the street from you in Stevenson Ranch. Im currently riding a BMW F650 for off-road and a Victory XCT for touring. I am seriously looking to get rid of the BMW, (too heavy) and get a Husky early next year. Looking at the 449 or 511 or maybe the new FE501.
 
Mine seems to be one of the early ones that came as leftovers from BMW. The Husky tool can't communicate with it to change the map. I think it may be why my bike runs a little better than some as I could have a slightly different map than those that Husky loaded into the MY '11 ECUs.
 
I would just like to comment AGAIN that the map 3 is awesome and the Zip Ty breather is working great.
My bike did not have a single flame out, burble, stall, flat spot, etc while riding the other day. Rode singletrack, did some hill climbs, rode wheelies, practiced pivot wheelies, rode grass track etc etc.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top