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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Somebody talk me out of buying a '05 TE250

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BigShooter

Husqvarna
B Class
I have been considering buying a plated 2005 TE250 that I came across for sale. What I am looking to do mainly is drop some weight, and gain some agility over my current bike, which is a '08 DRZ. As it stands, my DRZ is rather low geared, and only comfortably cruises at around 55mph. I don't do much "running around" on it; but, I do ride to work EVERY shift ( every 1 out of 3 days) about 8 miles one way on backish-type roads, and some of the places I ride locally require about 20 miles or so of pavement to reach. I just poke along around 50-55mph when I ride to them now on the DRZ. I'm not wanting to make an "adventure bike" out of the Husky, i.e. long trips or cruising the highway. I just want to ride it like I do my DRZ now, but have more fun in the woods.
What I would like to know, and haven't really came across yet, is are there any known issues with this model that I should be aware of? What is the major component engine life like, bearing in mind that I am not by any means a "racer"? I don't mind frequent general maintenance. I do it more frequently than needed on my DRZ as it is. I just don't want to get ahold of anything I'm going to have to expect to tear down all the time replacing major internals, etc.(realising that you never know what can decide to crap out on ya). Will it fit the bill for my intended use? Or, should I turn and run? I'd like to hear some real-life issues folks have had with one.
 
Not sure about a 05 model.. but my 2011, is a really reliable bike.. I have more than 200hrs on the engine without doing anything more than changing oil and filters.
As I said, I dont know how the gearbox of a 05 is, but the 11 is very high, designed more for lower speeds(they hate the pavement, and hate more the highway speeds), they are like a tractor, strong, but slow. So, for trails, woods, etc, its perfectly, fine, but for conmuting, it is not comfortable at all.

On my bike, as it is a small engine, I try to change oil as frequent as I can, for example, every 3 enduro rides, I change oil and filter. other than that, its a very good machine and requires the same maintenance as any other. Check out how many miles has the 05 on it, how many hours on the engine and inspect it carefully as it is a bike with 10 years out there.
 
The husky is a real off road bike that somehow was given a plate. On the dirt , mine is phenominal. On the pavement, it's uncomfortable. Everything Alberto said is correct about the fact that this bike does not like the pavement like the dirt is true. 15 miles max on the pavement and you will be looking for some dirt. It's a great bike, just not for dual sporting. The yamaha wr250r loves the pavement and not as dirt orientated. I used to have one and could travel all paved roads comfortably and fast. 95 mph is as fast as I had taken mine and was comfortable at speed. Long rides were very comfy.
 
Keep the air filter clean and don't be stabby with the kickstarter if you need to use it. Valves are super easy to adjust, but if you keep the air filter clean you won't need to.
 
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