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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My Txc310 Is Almost Perfect

MikeB,

Great read brother. I've just spent the last half hour reading from page 1-5 and you've put ALOT of great information out since you started the thread. As I'm getting the 310 myself, alot of your information will come in handy! Going to Fav this thread for future use.

Question I had though. Page 1 you mentioned you switched your clutch lever to your rear brake. This is totally new concept from a sport/supersport bike riders perspective. Does the recluse shifter allow you to not need the clutch at all? Sorry if this is fairly common knowledge to dirt riders I'm still learning :thinking:

So with that modification, do you completely remove the rear brake lever? I would assume you would I doubt that would connect as a clutch..lol But again, this is a completely new concept, so rather interested. I can see how having your rear brake attached to the bar would be easier to manage. Allowing you to weight a peg or lower a leg and shift weight well still being able to control the rear effectively. It was something that crossed my mind, however I didn't think it was possible till now.

Anyways, thanks for any feedback you can give! :cheers:
 
Yeah 6th gear - the rekluse clutch turns the bike into a 'twist and go'. I'm 60 and started riding dirt bikes 6 years ago after riding mt bikes for a number of years so the left hand rear brake is somewhat natural. I had a long hose made by a local radiator shop to hook the clutch to the rear brake and completely removed the rear brake pedal. 'Rekluse' company makes a hand brake which allows you to retain the foot brake also. With the Rekluse it is also possible to retain normal clutch usage if you want. There are positives and negatives to the hand brake - and many searchable threads on the subject - I just never learned to use a foot brake effectively, have a huge advantage entering right hand turns on the rear brake, have a huge advantage on gnarly downhills, and don't have to worry about the bike stalling when I tip over. I can't use the clutch to explode out of turns or loft the front wheel (I still get into and out of turns fine and can loft the front with a little throttle and yank).
 
I see MikeB.

All Good points! Suppose well I'm training this winter I'll test out both styles and see which suites my riding style better. Thanks for getting back with me so quickly. :cheers:
 
MikeB said:
Mike - I'm out at Marana most Sunday mornings at 8 now that summer is coming. Steve Hatch has a clinic at Canyon MX in Peoria on the 11th - if I can get a Saturday off I'll be there.

I just watched the video of todays ride. My bike now has that 'ripping' sound that was missing. My first video (from Feb 2012) was about 11 minutes at Marana under perfect conditions - I got to the same 2 sahuaros in the same time today in dry, dusty, slick, and hot conditions - even pulling over to let a faster guy by. The faster guy rides a KTM450 - he rode my Husky and came back with a smile, said it handles as well as anything he's ridden and the real world acceleration in dry, slick conditions was not much different than his 450. He's really tempted now with the prices so low.
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Pm Sent. I will have to make it one of these Sundays.
 
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