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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

First ride '10 TC250

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vntgmx

Husqvarna
AA Class
Had the maiden voyage aboard the new '10 TC250 I just picked up.Took it to the moto track to shake it down. Bit hot but not too humid and the dirt all in all was pretty decent as they didn't overwater based on yesterday's rain so got to get a good feel for things.

First off the KYB forks are a huge upgrade from the Zokes. Noticed the plush controlled action of them immediately. Good stuff and hopefully Husky will continue to spec their stuff with the KYBs. Over jump under jump braking bumps chop etc. they just soak it all up without a peep.
Rear Sachs works well as usual as I didn't notice any issues from the rear at all. Very good balanced set up!

Engine wise I would say seat of my pants it is a little down to say a KX250F but not anything that is going to hold someone like myself(51y/o midpack vet)back and it makes power where I'll be riding anyway. Shifting was excellent clutch worked great carb was spot on and was an easy starter even when I stalled it one time(pilot error). All it took was pull the hot start lever and one kick it was fired back up. It's all about finding the sweet spot just past TDC and it'll start 1-2 kicks everytime. Brakes were great and the front is awesome,great feel and super strong but in a good way as it has excellent modulation.

Chassis handles great and turns and sticks awesome and the stock Pirellis are great for where I ride. You can cut the inside line and not even think about it and there's no hint of washout or standing up etc at all. Basically it carves like a knife and I've ridden many RMs & CRs and this bike gives nothing away to them. On top of that the stability is solid as well. Just a really easy and confidence inspiring bike to try to push yourself on.

In summation I know it's only a first ride but I'd say in stock form the X-Lite TC250 is a solid winner. :thumbsup:

Here's a pic prior to the first voyage.
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Good report and a great bike. I'm 51 like you and I've never ridden a bike that turns as well. My son's TC now sports a Leo Vince slip on and that with re-jetting really woke the bike up. They look mighty good too! Enjoy.
 
john01;108667 said:
Good report and a great bike. I'm 51 like you and I've never ridden a bike that turns as well. My son's TC now sports a Leo Vince slip on and that with re-jetting really woke the bike up. They look mighty good too! Enjoy.
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Thanks guys. I'd say it turns with the best of them as I've had my share of RMs and nothing turns better then an RM/RMZ and I'd say the Husky gives nothing away to the RMZ these days.
I know from here and test reports that a slip on wakes it up a little but heck I can't use all the power as is so who am I kidding. :lol:
As far as jetting goes I'm not sure what is in there now but my dealer has rejetted it and it starts and runs great so I'm going to leave well enough alone. :thumbsup:
 
My 08 TXC250 is plenty 4 me also .. Pinning it in 1st, second and shifting to 3rd with it still pinned don't happen alot with me ... & The price of those pipes is crazy ... There are about a dozen things I can do as a rider to go faster before doing anything to the engine ... :)

I think I'm finally starting to think and ride like a 4t rider instead of a 2t rider ...
 
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