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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC So, what would you buy and why?

Which would you choose for trail riding if you weighed 240 pounds in gear?

  • Total voters
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reveille said:
Same dealer sells KTM and Husky. I bought the bike that had the better deal. No toaster, but I may ask about some underwear.:D Skid plate thrown in and it was still less than the TE. For the type of riding I'll be doing, it should suit me fine. Bottom line is the darn 4CS forks, just not willing to dump a ton into another set.
Pictures to come. The bike is being prepped.
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At least order the correct rate rear spring for your riding weight, before you leave the dealer. PDS will not reward you, especially at speed.... if you try running it with too light a spring. Enjoy that bike!
 
10-4. I've got the list of parts piling up already...uhhgg. I'll call Jeremy at MX-Tech Monday and get the correct springs set aside. I'm spoiled, he's 30 minutes from me. Huck valves for the OC forks and maybe the needle kit with a progressive spring for the PDS too. We'll see.
 
Cosmokenney said:
2015 300 XC-W? $?
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Final selling price was $7793 I traded a 2012 Super Tenere with 13,850 miles and some farkles bolted on. They offered 8k for the Tenere so I came out $200 ahead, including tax title and yes, a plate:D 8k for my Tenere was a really good trade offer so I jumped on it before they came to their senses. I see ton's of them on ADV rider for sale and they don't seem to move well even at 8k or less. Once my son gets his license in 4-5 years I may revisit the street/adventure bike needs then. I'd actually like to ride the TAT with him on smaller dual sport bikes. We'll see. The 2015 300 xcw was the last one they had but they have heaps of 2016's in the back warehouse, including 8 300 six days... I guess they are planning on a strong 2016. They also sent over 50 KTM's to California Wednesday. Maybe you guys will see some deals soon?
 
Ha!, where you been? I bought a 2015 300xcw yesterday. I won't have it delivered for a couple of weeks though when I'm on vacation. Weather is crap here now so no hurry. I'll set it up this winter and have the suspension worked over. Maybe I'll head down to Arizona for a winter ride...Hmmmm?
 
reveille said:
Final selling price was $7793 I traded a 2012 Super Tenere with 13,850 miles and some farkles bolted on. They offered 8k for the Tenere so I came out $200 ahead, including tax title and yes, a plate:D 8k for my Tenere was a really good trade offer so I jumped on it before they came to their senses. I see ton's of them on ADV rider for sale and they don't seem to move well even at 8k or less. Once my son gets his license in 4-5 years I may revisit the street/adventure bike needs then. I'd actually like to ride the TAT with him on smaller dual sport bikes. We'll see. The 2015 300 xcw was the last one they had but they have heaps of 2016's in the back warehouse, including 8 300 six days... I guess they are planning on a strong 2016. They also sent over 50 KTM's to California Wednesday. Maybe you guys will see some deals soon?
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Awesome deal. I like the idea of riding the TAT. I wanted to do it when I had my KLR, but couldn't talk any of my buddies into it. Maybe I'll be able to get my son to do it. He 16 and just about to get his drivers license, so he too, will be getting his MC lic. in a year or two.
 
Complain about 4cs but you are still getting huck Valves for "W".... thats what you would be doing for the 4cs plus you would have linkage and no PDS.... Dont make much sense.... But oh well have fun on the new scooter
 
No huck valves after all, just a $90 revalve from a local retired tuner. The 4cs needs more than huck valves... He is doing my pds revalve and respring as well for another 100 bucks, great guy, been riding woods for 40 years and says pds rules for our riding here. Tight snotty single track. I'm dropping off the suspension next week so we'll see. If I ran open desert trails I'd have to rethink things. I can't comment on pds since I have no experience with it but I will next season.
 
I hate PDS in the east also.... you can get it good for small stuff or big stuff... but to get the small stuff good the big stuff will suck....
 
Finally got my grubby hands on it.:banana: Now to install all the goodies.
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I just came from a xcw300 and went to a 2016 te300. PDS
Suspension is great. You will love it until you hit whoops.... it blows. Still a great bike the other 99% of time.
 
Is it an exc or xcw or is that the same bike? If so y different name?

The orange frame has really grown on me. Good looking bikes!
 
I bought a 15 300 xcw this year, first ride was wild, big difference from my well set up TC450. Then set sag as close as I could with stock rear spring( thanks motosportz for the kick in the ass to get that done) then switched to green pv spring, adjusted float height, raised clip on needle 1, adjusted air screw, installed fmf Q for a sparky- that done the bike is now named Rocky, roots, rocks, shale it eats up, guys that used to wait on me in tight stuff now I sometimes lead :banana:. Still can not take enough showers to get that Orange, traitor feeling off, but in the tight stuff it is worth the shame LOL. I cannot wait to get springs, 6'3" 300 with gear- even gonna try to lose some weight this winter. I also kept my Husky, that bike still just makes me smile when I ride it, and look at it. ( also Rocky has skid plate, carbon fiber pipe guard, and of coarse hand guards-I like to kiss trees ever so much! Have fun, and congrats.
 
idahodirtrider said:
I just came from a xcw300 and went to a 2016 te300. PDS
Suspension is great. You will love it until you hit whoops.... it blows. Still a great bike the other 99% of time.
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Hard pressed to find whoops round these parts. I am contemplating having MX-Tech install the needle kit in the PDS. It's under $200 and seems to be the cure all for PDS. I spoke with Jeff Slavens this morning and he agreed the needle kits is awesome.
http://mx-tech.com/mxt-works/clp/

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I may just ride it this coming season revaled and resprung and see how it goes.

In a moment of weakness, I ordered a Lectron today. I hope it works out good, I have high hopes.
 
Let me know how that lectron works, I am going to JD jet kit mine, also once again I was blown away with how good stock suspension worked in tight nasty stuff, which is 99% of what I ride, If I go down south will bring the Husky for the dez.
 
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