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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
TXC310R Vs YZ250FX
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fire1998
Husqvarna
AA Class
Never had 1 problem with starter. I put a 5 amp lithium battery in from new. The stock or a 2.5 amp lithium battery didn't have enough juice, especially hot. My bike was made after all the updated parts. I think it's bike to bike case. Every now and then I'll kick it, first kick hot almost every time!!
My buddies TE310 kick starts crazy easy to. But then again you should not ever have to.
My battery finally took a crap (excited to buy a lightweight earthx
) and I kickstarted it for the first time lol. It was easy enough but I don't think I ever want to give up the button. I already can see it not kicking as easy at a race and leave me pissed off, mostly because I'd be worn out. Estart and efi are the best part of modern 4 strokes
) and I kickstarted it for the first time lol. It was easy enough but I don't think I ever want to give up the button. I already can see it not kicking as easy at a race and leave me pissed off, mostly because I'd be worn out. Estart and efi are the best part of modern 4 strokes 
brentk660
Husqvarna
AA Class
I had the starter gear upgrade under warranty with 5 hrs on it. I've had the bike a year and now have only 25hrs total on the bike. It starts every time with the button no problem, and the times I've kicked it it starts super easy. It's also on the stock battery and has never seen a trickle charger, with only 25 hrs in a year it sits ALOT and always starts on the button.
JimBob
Husqvarna
A Class
Yeah, that's true but it will buy a lot of parts. There's no saying at this point that the Yamaha won't experience starter or other problems too. I won't argue that the Yamaha will very likely be a more reliable and dependable motorcycle than the Husky and if you have no mechanical aptitude spending the extra $$$ might be the way to go.
Went into Yamaha today and through my leg over a Wr250F. Soooo high. I'm 5 '10 and was on tippy toes. Over A$13k ride away :O
Did you test the FX?
Did you test the FX?
I'm not wild over Yamaha handling either but if you have not ridden one of there newer bikes you might be infor s surprise. They handle different now than they did in the past.
I have a buddy with a bunch of newer Yamahas. He has had his share of starter issues. His 2013 (I think) WR450 was a horrible starter as the EFI was so bad stock and the e-start was barely enough to make it go.
I'm almost 6 foot and the FX I sat on felt VERY tall and wide too. That surprised me.
310huskyTE
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I did test the FX, it was a quick 10 minute ride because there was a lot of people wanting to test the FX at the demo day.
Sitting on the bike, it is tall but when the suspension beds in i should be able to get both feet on the ground, just, and i'm 5'11
I don't think it's wide at all, in fact i thought it felt quite slim, but thats probably because i just got off my FE 350 which feels wide to me.
The motor is awesome, it's fairly torquey and revs up real quick and it feels stronger than a 250.
Suspension wise it's light years ahead of the WP rubbish on my 350, for me it would be a case of set the sag and adjust the clickers and ride!
The bike is very agile and flickable through the trees and i felt right at home on it straight away, at the end of the 10 minutes i was very impressed as the bike just did everything right and i hit things harder on the FX than i could on my FE and i think i'd be quicker on the FX.
The only thing i didn't really like was the front brake, the nissins aren't as strong as the brembos but an oversized disc should fix that.
I'm close to trading my 350 for the FX, to make sure i'm doing the right thing by going back to a yamaha and more importantly a 250, My dealer is lending me their demo FX for the day tomorrow so i can have a good ride on it then make my decision.
Fantastic! I can sense your keeness
310huskyTE
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I'm keen alright!
I just picked up the demo bike and now have it at home, I can't wait to ride this thing tomorrow!
The Missus doesn't know I have it, I should put it inside with the other three, and when she gets home from work she will flip!!
I just picked up the demo bike and now have it at home, I can't wait to ride this thing tomorrow!
The Missus doesn't know I have it, I should put it inside with the other three, and when she gets home from work she will flip!!
fire1998
Husqvarna
AA Class
Hey guys I'm 6'4" and thought the Xlites fit me perfect. The Yamaha YZ250FX is a big bike and I thank Yamaha for that. Bike fits pretty damn good after installing undermount damper and Fastway lowboy pegs. Us tall guys are tired of having bikes built for 5,8" guys!! Go Yamaha. Can't ride mine for a couple more weeks because of broken hand. It's goin to be 70 degrees here this weekend!!
310huskyTE
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Well i spent 3 hours on the FX today, and i'm really impressed, for the type of riding i'm going to do this year i think the FX will be a good choice, its just so agile and rails ruts with ease and the torque of the motor is fantastic, the main aim of today was to test out the bottom end of the motor as that was my main concern with going back to a 250.
I rode the FX up some steep technical single trail and there was plenty of bottom end to climb up wherever i pointed it, and it didn't struggle at all, i didn't have to keep kicking down gears, in 2nd it would just chug away and hold 2nd and climb to the top. The only time it wanted to stall was when i ran out of ability.
The suspension is brilliant, i'll just set the sag, adjust the clickers and ride it. No messing around going backwards and forwards to a suspension tuner to try and get the suspension to work like with the WP stuff.
I don't like the cable clutch, it gets heavy after a while, plus the lever is really long, so i would convert it to hydraulic.
I would probably need to spend a little more time on it to decide if it really needs an oversize front disc rotor.
The motor did feel a little restricted to me, so i'd probably put a full exhaust system on it, or maybe it was just that it was a 250 and not the 350 that I'm used too.
I dropped the bike back at the shop at 1pm today, as that's when they close, and guess what happened, yep thats right i ordered the FX!
All going well i should be saying goodbye to my 350 and picking up the FX next weekend!!
This afternoon i've been all over the web looking for parts to personalise the bike for me, i going to buy the Cycra power flow radiator shrouds, and i couldn't resist this graphics kit from Factory Effex.
And no it won't have number 51 on it, I don't like Barcia much.
I rode the FX up some steep technical single trail and there was plenty of bottom end to climb up wherever i pointed it, and it didn't struggle at all, i didn't have to keep kicking down gears, in 2nd it would just chug away and hold 2nd and climb to the top. The only time it wanted to stall was when i ran out of ability.
The suspension is brilliant, i'll just set the sag, adjust the clickers and ride it. No messing around going backwards and forwards to a suspension tuner to try and get the suspension to work like with the WP stuff.
I don't like the cable clutch, it gets heavy after a while, plus the lever is really long, so i would convert it to hydraulic.
I would probably need to spend a little more time on it to decide if it really needs an oversize front disc rotor.
The motor did feel a little restricted to me, so i'd probably put a full exhaust system on it, or maybe it was just that it was a 250 and not the 350 that I'm used too.
I dropped the bike back at the shop at 1pm today, as that's when they close, and guess what happened, yep thats right i ordered the FX!
All going well i should be saying goodbye to my 350 and picking up the FX next weekend!!
This afternoon i've been all over the web looking for parts to personalise the bike for me, i going to buy the Cycra power flow radiator shrouds, and i couldn't resist this graphics kit from Factory Effex.
And no it won't have number 51 on it, I don't like Barcia much.
Norman Foley
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I'm sure it's a very nice bike and I'd like to ride one. New Yamaha bikes, especially off road models always create a huge buzz and are hailed as the salvation of riding. But then, the back pedaling starts.... move the motor mounts or do this or that. KYB's are very good and the WP's are in a bad place right now it seems.
Main point... ride what you like and what fits you, but if you don't like it or it doesn't fit you... doesn't mean it's junk.
Main point... ride what you like and what fits you, but if you don't like it or it doesn't fit you... doesn't mean it's junk.
