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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husky for long term keeps. electronic issues?

andy j

andy j

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi guys... looking through the vintage posts kinda got me thinking how simple they are.
So if you were to buy a new husky that you intend to keep for 10 years + I would like your thoughts on which bike you would choose.. it does not have to be new. but fairly modern. and would need to be used, enduro & trail riding.
Due to the electronics like efi & the daft cost of fuel pump replacement should it ever fail on the modern 4 strokes, does this mean that the cost of keeping these bikes running say when they are ten+ years old will be impractical? no ones going to splash out £ 500 for a pump which would be say half the cost of the bike right??
I have a te 310 2010 and it has been faultless. but when i look at say a wr 125, 250, 300, cr 125, tc 250, 450 in my shop they look so simple, my brain is saying that if i want to keep my bike long term perhaps i should consider a simpler mechanical only bike??
oh just to reiterate. my 2010 310 has been faultless.

your thoughts appreciated..

AJ
 
I once had a 350cc Maico. I´d never be able to re-register it now as I couldn´t get it to conform to present day European environmental requirements (E3). If I´d kept it on the register here it´d be worth its weight in gold.
 
your 310 is made for a tough and hard life the bottom end takes the current 450 and 510's as well so its bullet proof in a 310. The electronics may not be proven up as yet, however it appears that once initial start up matters are sorted they work fine. I beleive the bikes should stand up to the rigours of long term use.
 
yes the 310 comes apart and goes back together with simplistic ease, feels well thought out and high quality. its great to work on and the bottom end the same as the 450 510 its rock solid. There is however various wires, capped dangling here & there, rubbing on moving parts, ecu and electronic bits all easily within distance of getting a soaking when washing the bike.
It kinda got me thinking that once the electronics pack up (which they will do at some point) the rest mechanical side will be fine but the cost of sorting out the electronics will render the bike to the parts bin.
much the same as modern cars. the ecu goes the car is great condition but the dealer wants 1500 to fix it. obviously the same for all bike manufactures i guess.
for instance, imagine in 10 years time the fuel pump goes thats £400, the ecu buggers up, thats 100? + you probo need i beat to set the new one uP. thats £700. now take a simple carb job like the vintage husky and you have no problems...
do we all need fi, i rode two bikes at the weekend one 150 2s and one 450 no fi and they ran great and look darn simple.
will we be looking back in a few years time wondering where it all went wrong whilst were sitting in the dealers waiting room with our bikes hooked up to diagnostic, tuning & servicing computers that the manufacture of our bike has kindly made it impossible for us to work on ourselves??
 
I asked my self the same question ... Can a 4t last me for the rest of my riding career? I'm 52 and if I can ride another 10 yrs, I'll be happy ...

My 08 TXC250 was imported to the Philippines as my retirement vehicle... It has 265hrs in the first year & counting AND I am holding back on the riding due to rubber cost and wear & tear on the bike ... I totally underestimated what riding a bike every day is going to do to the total miles \ time on it ... Can't really see it lasting a decade without major work more than once and I'm not down with that idea so I'm not sure what I'll do ...

Also, I can't see havin' an EFI bike without expecting that to give many more issues than a simple 2t or an air cooled 4t such as a honda XR down the line also ... So EFI is about 99% out of the question 4 me ... I'll probably have the 2t :) or a JAP 4t :( down the road ....

Now, if your not gonna ride the bike much and let it set in the garage and be all pretty, it ain't gonna really matter ....
 
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