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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Post up pictures of your 4 stroke bikes!

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2010 TC250R still up for sale! Lots of bolt ons, meticulously maintained by my father who’s been a motorcycle mechanic for 25+ years.
Very clean, very fast! $3800 obo Open to trades for other Husqvarna’s
 
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Picked up this 07 TE510 yesterday and got her cleaned up pretty good today. Took it out for a quick pavement run. It is a beast of a motor, lots of power. Bike is in solid shape with only 1100 miles on it. Just put in a Rocky Mountain order so looking forward to some new tires and flushing all the fluids. Should be a fun dual sport bike.
 
Here's my donna, zero issues. She's my son's now. Just got me an Austrian FX450.

The difference between the two, the FX is lighter, which is weird,
because the 310 is very flickable, feels light; also loves the 0w40 oil. Tried the recommended 10w50, it was hard to start and felt very sluggish. Honestly, heard more noise, maybe it was in my head.
I hate that I have to put a cooling fan on the FX (and other little things), the 310 was ready from the start.txc310.jpg
 
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Put some mud and a couple of hours on the 310 today. Coming off a KTM 380 it was an ... interesting transition. My only gripe is lugability, the 380 will pull stumps out, and with a rekluse it’s basically unstoppable. I stalled the 310 a lot in my first hour of riding, and this is a much more violent event on a 4T I’ve learned. I quickly fell head over heels in love with e-start. This is the best invention since the remote control. The low RPM throttle response is pretty notchy but I’m getting used to it. It’s also geared really low, the 310 with 13/50 feels about the same as my 380 with 12/52. This isn’t a bad thing, just a little unexpected and awkward given the lack of bottom end that I’m used to. Think I’ll throw a 12 up front and see how that feels.

Otherwise, the handling, suspension, flickability, seat height, power delivery, controllability, et al is just beyond belief. Apparently 12 years is enough time to make some major improvements in those areas lol. On the 380 it frequently felt like I was hanging on, just trying to manage the bike. On the 310 I feel like I can hook my heels in and make it do whatever I want, whenever I want. I’m very happy with this thing and really enjoy not being completely smoked after 30 minutes of hard riding. This bike makes me a better rider and at 37 that makes me happy :)
 
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Put some mud and a couple of hours on the 310 today. Coming off a KTM 380 it was an ... interesting transition. My only gripe is lugability, the 380 will pull stumps out, and with a rekluse it’s basically unstoppable. I stalled the 310 a lot in my first hour of riding, and this is a much more violent event on a 4T I’ve learned. I quickly fell head over heels in love with e-start. This is the best invention since the remote control. The low RPM throttle response is pretty notchy but I’m getting used to it. It’s also geared really low, the 310 with 13/50 feels about the same as my 380 with 12/52. This isn’t a bad thing, just a little unexpected and awkward given the lack of bottom end that I’m used to. Think I’ll throw a 12 up front and see how that feels.

Otherwise, the handling, suspension, flickability, seat height, power delivery, controllability, et al is just beyond belief. Apparently 12 years is enough time to make some major improvements in those areas lol. On the 380 it frequently felt like I was hanging on, just trying to manage the bike. On the 310 I feel like I can hook my heels in and make it do whatever I want, whenever I want. I’m very happy with this thing and really enjoy not being completely smoked after 30 minutes of hard riding. This bike makes me a better rider and at 37 that makes me happy :)

yeah, you got to ride it more like a 125. get a 52 or even better- a 12 tooth counter and you'll be happier.
...except when you want to easy-cruise at 50mph (not happening. And you can go 65, but the bike will be at around 10K rpms)

my gearing is 12-52. I wish for a slightly lower 1st occasionally, but it's close enough. 6th gear sucks.

keep a finger on the clutch when you're lugging.

Nice barn- it looks kinda old?
 
yeah, you got to ride it more like a 125. get a 52 or even better- a 12 tooth counter and you'll be happier.
...except when you want to easy-cruise at 50mph (not happening. And you can go 65, but the bike will be at around 10K rpms)

my gearing is 12-52. I wish for a slightly lower 1st occasionally, but it's close enough. 6th gear sucks.

keep a finger on the clutch when you're lugging.

Nice barn- it looks kinda old?

Yeah, gonna start with a 12 and see how that feels. After that maybe a 52 in back, we’ll see how my middle finger feels haha. It’s workabke right now, but I ride exclusively tight woods and don’t want to burn the clutch out.

Barn is 1886 :)
 
Just picked up a 2013 te310 it had a lowering link and seat cut down I have just put the standard link back on and looking for a regular seat. Have just removed the started as was burnt out and got the TC blanking plate on order
 

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