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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I did it... 09 TE510

Hey Rexr, way to go. I made that jump earlier this spring after looking really hard at the BMW 450X, KTM, Aprillia, GasGas and just about every other bike between 400 and 650. I was coming off a DRZ 400 with over 22,000 kms of mostly off road on it. I agree with some of these guys when they mention "rocket". I weighed both bikes 2 minutes apart on the same scale. My DRZ was 326 and my TE510 was 274. 52 lbs lighter both with similar fuel levels. Holy crap... add to the mix almost double the HP and a rocket she is. I traded bikes with a buddy a while back (getting on his DRZ 400) and it felt like an old station wagon compared to a race car. Lacked brakes, handling and power... and to think I loved that ole bike of mine for years. Anyway, you will LOVE your new bike. Pete SS
 
Thanks guys. I am loving the bike. I have about 450 miles on her so far. Unfortunately I am healing a slipped disc in my lower back so I have not had a chance to ride any really challenging off road stuff yet. As soon as I have around 750 miles on her I am going to take her down to George for a Uptite Tune..

Here are a couple of the latest pics..

The control center..
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LED Taillight setup
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In her street clothes..
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Nice bike.

I do wish the IMS tank would allow for tank shrouds. These beautiful Huskies just don't look the same without them.

NC
 
Yeah.. I am torn. I get a lot of compliments on how clean it looks with the white tank but I hate that it gets and stays so dirty..
 
Motosportz;56290 said:
yep, many times. The 450 has a lot less bottom end but feels lighter on the trail and turns quicker. The 510 is FAST and feels a little bulky to me. If you ride tighter stuff get the 450. If you do a lot of dez of DS get the 510.
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yep as kelly said, 450 feels totally different and doesnt have the grunt of the 510 ! but does feela tad lighter and i have 14/48 on mine and will lift the front quite easily in every gear ! :D

only complaint is the drink problem ! :p

those square indicators are horrid on the new bikes, then older round ones are much nicer..just my opinion !
 
bbcmat;57046 said:
What steering damper is that - with the IMS tank?

How do you like it?

MAT
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It is a GPR. I like it alot. I have had Scotts before too but GPR is local here in SoCal and they provide EXCELLENT customer support so I chose them over the Scotts. It fits with the IMS Tank but it is TIGHT. I have to say that I am extremely disappointed in the fit and finish of the IMS tank but since that is the only option we have that is what I went with.
 
NumberCruncher;56581 said:
I do wish the IMS tank would allow for tank shrouds. These beautiful Huskies just don't look the same without them.
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Agreed - it would certainly be great if the shrouds would just bolt on, but with a bit of ingenuity (and being willing to cut them up a little) you can make them fit and find a way to keep them in place. I ended up doing that after the decals I originally applied directly to my IMS tank just bubbled up and peeled off. Only took a couple of hours to fit the shrouds so I could stick the decals on those instead.

Course, if Husky themselves produced a larger tank either as standard or an option I guess this wouldn't be a problem... :thinking:
 
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