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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE450 street riding

ed26la

ed26la

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi Everyone,
I just received my 09 TE 450 and what a great bike, I am very happy to be a Husky owner and part of this community.

My question to everyone is why does everyone advice not to ride on street so much?

The SMR450 is made for street and very similar to the TE? I maybe wrong, please advice.
I plan to ride to work which is about seven miles and will be adding a 14T front sprocket.

Im just trying to learn and do what will be best for the bike.
Thanks, Ed
 
The internal gearing is not best suited to highway rinding. It is a close ratio box that is best used in racing and good trails.
 
glangston;104131 said:
The SMRs have a cush drive....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cush_drive

Your 7 mile ride is no big deal. For my own part I just try and stay off freeways.
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cush or no cush freeway is just avoided as the top gear on the bike is really small.. rarely used.. its got nothing to do with the actual cush drive. Coming from KTM who has the same issue, it's the whacking of the throttle that causes hub failures, so basically riding your bike like a sumo bike. With nobs it's not as bad as the nobs take some of the shock of the hit, but if you run some scorps or a sumo setup then go wheely all over the neighborhood your going to crack your rear hub in no time.. just my opinion though, i've never cracked one to date, but also heed above warnings :thumbsup:
 
ghte;104132 said:
The internal gearing is not best suited to highway rinding. It is a close ratio box that is best used in racing and good trails.
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internal gear on these bikes are bad ass by the way.. coming from KTM.. I was shocked to see the three low, three high setup, like a trials bike.. whoda thunk theres other bikes besides orange ones :lol:
 
markwoodlief;104137 said:
internal gear on these bikes are bad ass by the way.. coming from KTM.. I was shocked to see the three low, three high setup, like a trials bike.. whoda thunk theres other bikes besides orange ones :lol:
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I'm not sure what you are referring to. The gears are almost perfectly evenly spaced. Check the specs in your owners manual, and if you don't believe those numbers make note of how fast you are going in all the gears at a certain rpm, maybe 4000 rpms. Then do the math.
 
Coffee;104147 said:
I'm not sure what you are referring to. The gears are almost perfectly evenly spaced. Check the specs in your owners manual, and if you don't believe those numbers make note of how fast you are going in all the gears at a certain rpm, maybe 4000 rpms. Then do the math.
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hmm.. i'm sure your spot on, but to me it feels like 1 - 3 are super low, compared to 4 - 6.. it's actually the most noticable thing different besides suspension that I noticed.. hmm.. maybe I have an oddball :lol:
 
:)

I just noticed the location of the person that started this thread. Maui would be a fine place to ride a bike on or off the street. :thumbsup:
 
Thanks for all the info fellas.
So adding a 14T front and adding a Uptite Y what else should I be doing?

Already have 600 miles on her and the power-up kit got Installed... what a Diff.

I am looking into adding a Power Commander V as she has slight bucking and backfires on deceleration all under 5000 rpm where I noticed this. Any suggestions? (No Ibeat here) Thanks, Ed
 
I set mine up for road work using a T15 front and a T44 rear to get some top-end speed. I also changed the tires over to K270s front and rear and now I'm good to go in the rain as well. This bike is going to get me speeding tickets as it is impossible not to run through those gears. Love the power ban on Husky's, great bike and I own enough sprockets to set it up for any kind of riding I might like.

Here is the issue for me, with the road use I find that anything but smooth roads/highways causes my chain to whip so much that I have to tighten it up more then is recommended, this is so that the chain doesn't hit the frame and grind out the metal. This means that the jerkiness of the highway ride isn't cushioned the way a street bike would be. We'll see what this means to the wear and tear on the components, chain, sprockets etc. Around the city I'm constantly changing gears and the ride is perfect, not so on the highways. GL
 
As a SMR510 owner, here's my opinion. I do not ride my SMR in tight technical single track so I don't mind as much if first gear is a little high. Also, a 510 has more bottom end torque to compensate for a tall first gear than a 450 does. For pure street riding the transmission is okay I think, and just about ideal for MX and supermoto racing. The problem comes when you want to have a low first gear for walking-pace off-roading yet still want to cruise the freeway without the engine screaming. If this is what you want, either get a 610 or a different brand.

You will be able to cure the bucking under 5000 RPM with a PCV. Autotune makes it easier.
 
Throw a 15 tooth counter on and enjoy your bike, either pavement or offroad. I've got over 7800 miles on my 08TE510 with plenty of pavement riding and have yet to doing any valve lash adjustments. Your biggest challenge will be finding tires that will last and still work for your offroad terrain.

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Eventually you may want the ibeat for diagnostic purposes.
Getting the PC with the Autotune makes more sense to me than without.
 
Don't worry because of 7 miles. I usually ride on street, when driving to the tracks. I´m using 12 t sprocket with stock rear sprocket, because i prefer it better for thigth single track.
when i ride on tarmac i ride slow, at max 6500 rpm to avoid damage on tje engine which is a small cost for a perfect off road setup. For 7 miles its not too hard to be carefull on the throttle.
 
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