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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

PIcked it up : 510TE/SM Mmmmm

weeksy

Husqvarna
B Class
Well,

After a bit of a wait the Husky finally arrived on my doorstep. Cracking bloke i dealt with and was very honest and straight with me.
"battery is knackered and doens't hold charge, so i've bought you a new one"
Also gave me a brand new Airoh helmet that i was debating buying last week LOL. Never worn and in the correct size. Gloss back and looks superb.

Onto the 510. Well, it's put together beautifully. THe brackets and components are really nicely made. It's a VERY basic bike, nothing on there really apart from what's needed to go forward and stop etc.
Doesn't come with a key, which is a minor pain in the backside from a security perspective when i go out, but waiting for my Auto alarm guy to come back to me with ideas on an immobiliser for that. It does have a steering lock, but fuck knows how that works.
THe bike has both elecetric and kick start, decomp lever on the bars, manual choke, hot start lever and fuel tap, not had one of them in a while i can tell you.

The bike has less than 800 miles on the clocks and it shows. Not a mark on it. The off-road wheels have 0 miles on them, obviously they're immaculate.

Starting bike is simple enough with a bit of choke and electric start, out on the road and it's exceptionally light and flickable, the brakes work well (even though the Enduro caliper not the 510SMR Brembo P4 caliper). Power, well it picks up the front a little in 2nd, just by opening the throttle, seems to run out of grunt about 95mph but that's plenty fast. Needs an exhaust really to unleash it fully. The weight of 108kg makes the bike feel quite flightly and effortless to throw round the lanes (only a 6 mile test ride by the way).

The offroad wheels will be going on tomorrow, very simple job even compared to the 510SMR as it only has 1 nut for each spindle and almost a MTB quick release on the other side.

I'd like a rev counter, will look into that and get one sorted.

This ones a keeper

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Nice bike ... that pipe does not look like it has been heated up too much ... Maybe U can turn it nice and blue .. ;)
 
Hand guards and a whopping big chain ?
I would post a pic of the early version i may get if I knew how
 
type49;134056 said:
Hand guards and a whopping big chain ?
I would post a pic of the early version i may get if I knew how

Handguards and blue rad covers :)


Got some carbon frame protectors arriving soon and HOPEFULLY some Talon gold hubs with black excel rims.
 
type49;134095 said:
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blue rims are where its at :thumbsup:

I always worry with stuff like that as there comes a time when too much of a colour scheme can be WAY too much very quickly. SM's though do lend themselves to blinging quite well so it's often possible to get away with more. Cost for painting wheels isn't too bad but i think currently i have the black/dark of the engine etc and it flows well.

I'm open to being told i'm wrong though :)
 
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