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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Motorcross on a 09 TE 250

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hoffa509

Husqvarna
AA Class
A group is renting Bud's Creek www.buddscreek.com for a track day. What, if anything, should I do to my TE to get it ready for motorcross? I usually ride very tight pine trails. The wide open jumps will be new to me. The one thing that would really help would be to replace the rider, but that would defeat the purpose. I am 200 lbs in my undies and have stock springs. The only change I have made is to adjust the sag. I am only looking to have fun, not race.
 
Since it's a one time affair I wouldn't worry about going out and spending money on any mods or services. Stiffen the compression up by adjusting your clickers, take off the kick stand if you haven't already and go out and have some fun. Sounds like a blast. That track looks super fun.
 
hey mate. my te 310 (2010) is great round the motocross track. will only bottom on flat hard landings.... .. rear shock is standard settings, front clickers rebound standard. compression 8 from fully soft... im 97 kg with gear..
I tape up the headlight & fork legs with gaffer tape to stop any chips...
i have also gone with a 14t front sproket to hold the gears a little longer... i never use first once going...

really happy with how well it goes and will hold its own against my buddies range of mx bikes...

have fun.
 
should do fine. Stiffen the clickers and let her rip. My buddy loves his 08 TXC250 (now a 300) on the track and does well on it.
 
Have fun! Budd's is a fantastic track (though be prepared for anything as they usually don't prep or water it when its rented). Its also a big swooping track that's quite well suited to a woods bike as compared to more sx-style tracks. Have fun, ride smooth and hit the downramps if you decide to do the jumps. I've laped the track at a respectable pace on a bone stock KDX200 (cleared very jump except the "big gulp"), the key is maintaining momentum in the corners and paying a bit more attention to hitting the downramps than I might otherwise (I've raced the track on MX bikes many times).

I've been away for a few years, but Budd's used to have a HS course too - don't know if they still do. If its there and available, take a lap on it too.

If you have the time you could take off anything not needed (lights, kickstand, passenger pegs, mirros and any other street stuff that's still there) to save weight and reduce chances of breaking stuff in a crash.
 
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