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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

George at Uptite Gave me a Brand New Bike!!

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slowe

Husqvarna
AA Class
What an amazing deal, I took my 08 TE250 to George at Uptite last week for a new exhaust (one of his custom made units) and when I picked up the bike on Wednesday it looked like the same bike I had given him a few days earlier but riding it for the first time on Saturday I swear George gave me a completely new bike
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The biggest difference to the stock exhaust system is the power band - I have no idea if its producing more peak horsepower and dont really care - the big seat of the pants impact is that there is significantly more torque low down in the rev range, this alone makes the bike so much fun to ride. The power is very linear and controlled - like a brand new bike. If I rode this bike blind there is no way I would guess it was a 250.
I was finding myself riding in one gear higher than with the stock exhaust and getting way more throttle response than I have got used to.
I was thinking of messing with gearing - no need for that now.

The next difference is the sound - George knew that I did not want a loud exhaust and he modified the system he usually puts on the TE250 to accommodate my needs. The exhaust is so much sweeter sounding, as you guys all know these are not quiet bikes but the raspy sound of the stock exhaust has been replaced by a deeper toned exhaust note that is very reasonable in the lower 2/3rds of the rev range. And sounds so good, I was not sure if I was smiling due to the power band or just the singing of the engine as I rode around the desert. The exhaust came with a spark arrester and downward facing deflector cap on which obviously helps to manage the sound.
I have ridden this bike with earplugs for the past year due to the high freq rasp from the exhaust - no need for ear plugs for regular trail riding.

Finally I am sure the weight reduction from the big old stock exhaust will do no harm!!

All I need now is more time to ride and some suggestions of what to do with 15lbs of scrap steel that looks like an OE muffler!!

All I can say is that George is a wizard with these bikes, delivers exactly what his customers need and is a great guy to deal with
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That is a great outcome. A quiet pipe with improved performance. A win win situation-well done Slowe and George.
 
Yes George is one of a kind and the Husky crowd is lucky to have him in their corner. He resesitated my '10 510 from near death recently and now it runs like a scalded cat (I'll do a write up on it soon). The misses rides a 310 and we both have just about everything George offers... expensive but well worth it. Great one liner from George today when I told him it still vibrates like a mother... 'best to take 200cc out of the motor' HHHAAAAAAAA yea someday I'll listen.

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Glad to hear that George continues to crank out GOOD mods for Husky's, as he's been doing for years. Now, if we could just get him to reproduce all the goodies he used to make for the old bikes...
 
Just for amusement, measure the O.D. of your old and new headers. My guess is the new are smaller.

In 2003 KTM made the mistake of fitting the same exhaust system on the 250 RFS through 520 RFS. The 250 did OK at high RPM but had nothing at low. The trick aftermarket pipe took very little off the top end but significantly improved the bottom. Mostly by using a smaller diameter header.
 
Mr. Huero said:
Yes George is one of a kind and the Husky crowd is lucky to have him in their corner. He resesitated my '10 510 from near death recently and now it runs like a scalded cat (I'll do a write up on it soon). The misses rides a 310 and we both have just about everything George offers... expensive but well worth it. Great one liner from George today when I told him it still vibrates like a mother... 'best to take 200cc out of the motor' HHHAAAAAAAA yea someday I'll listen.

/ron
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Were you one that crashed.....and tweaked the sub-frame. Well, anyway I watched George take a Louisville Slugger to one ....perfect after about 5 or 6 swings.
 
glangston said:
Were you one that crashed.....and tweaked the sub-frame. Well, anyway I watched George take a Louisville Slugger to one ....perfect after about 5 or 6 swings.
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No just got the engine a little hot and cooked the top end. See the thread about break ins.
 
Mr. Huero said:
Yes George is one of a kind and the Husky crowd is lucky to have him in their corner. He resesitated my '10 510 from near death recently and now it runs like a scalded cat (I'll do a write up on it soon). The misses rides a 310 and we both have just about everything George offers... expensive but well worth it. Great one liner from George today when I told him it still vibrates like a mother... 'best to take 200cc out of the motor' HHHAAAAAAAA yea someday I'll listen.

/ron
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200cc out, or parts from the SM510, 2 words, "counterbalancer shaft" (assy)
 
George is the man. He and I are the only hands on my bike. I am Uptite on my TE250. I have the same exhaust and many other Uptite Husky mods. George is the one who I trust to advise me on my first bike - he has it running perfectly and I follow his guidance to a T. I will post updated photos.
 
anyone have pics or specs on what was different about exhaust? Header pipe size,muffler o.d. ,etc. also was this originally a stock system or arrow slipon with power up kit? i still need more bottom 08 w/310 kit
 
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