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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Cyclenews TC250 Review

NumberCruncher

NumberCruncher

Husqvarna
AA Class
The current Cyclenews has a test of the TC250. I have always thought them to be much better than Dirt Bike or Dirt Rider when it comes to tests.

Like everyone else, they love the handling and light weight but say it is down on power. They close the article by saying the bike is only an aftermarket exhaust away from being excellent.

I still hope to get a 2010 TE250 soon.

NC
 
NumberCruncher;66094 said:
The current Cyclenews has a test of the TC250. I have always thought them to be much better than Dirt Bike or Dirt Rider when it comes to tests.

Like everyone else, they love the handling and light weight but say it is down on power. They close the article by saying the bike is only an aftermarket exhaust away from being excellent.

I still hope to get a 2010 TE250 soon.

NC
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I keep waiting for more definitive news about how the Jardines are performing on the ZipTy bikes. I don't need the power cuz I'm a wimpy old guy who'll never ride it to its potential, but it would be nice to see the rag writers give Husky a 100% positive write-up.
 
krieg;66117 said:
I keep waiting for more definitive news about how the Jardines are performing on the ZipTy bikes. I don't need the power cuz I'm a wimpy old guy who'll never ride it to its potential, but it would be nice to see the rag writers give Husky a 100% positive write-up.
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Word is the Jardine makes a nice 2-3 HP across the board. The Devil makes a bunch more top maybe at the expense of the bottom. Everyone i speak to that is in the know says the exhaust is capping the power for sure. My TXC makes a LOT more with the SA out and EFI tuned accordingly so I'm assuming they are right.

BTW for the trails i ride the "softer" power with the SA in is actually EZer to ride smooth / fast with. The "bark' with it out is very fun though. :D

It should be noted that the Jap bikes the mags test are a good 4-8 DB louder than the TC. If the TC came with a 6 db louder pipe i bet the HP figures would be much more in line.
 
I think you are dead on the money K. I think for my riding style and if I had a TC250 I would perfer the 2-3 hp across the range over more top end. I can't ride the bike at the top very long but it sure is fun getting there. Is the Jardine a full system or just a slip on?
 
john01;66181 said:
I think you are dead on the money K. I think for my riding style and if I had a TC250 I would perfer the 2-3 hp across the range over more top end. I can't ride the bike at the top very long but it sure is fun getting there. Is the Jardine a full system or just a slip on?
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Full system with the canister in the headpipe deal.
 
According to their website their latest issue now has a 250f mx shootout. Mine hasn't arrived yet so I don't know where the Husky landed.

NC
 
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