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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

trade sm wheels for 21 -18s?

I run a 510TE in both SM and Dirt mode. Takes about an hour to swap from one to the other. I've been running standard SM road gearing on both at the moment as that's how the bike was supplied to me.
If you have everything set up and ready to go there's no reason you can't fit it all up in 30 mins.

The only tricky mess part is the rear caliper mount, with the SM wheels it's a bit of a fiddly bitch to get caliper in right..

I've only swapped the wheels on this twice now, so still learning the tricks and quick techniques that come with time and practice.

I did notice yesterday on SM wheels that the front end is very flighty. In summer i forsee a steering damper on my list of purchases.
 
Twatty;133224 said:
Thanks mate, they're a bit harder to keep clean, but worth it for something a little different. Good to see there's others out there who aren't affraid of getting dirty on 17's :applause:
Dead right about cheap dirt bikes, thats exactly what I did before I got the TE with a KDX200 to suppliment my 610SM. When I moved house I only had room for 1 bike, so after a bit of research it was pretty obvious converting a TE was way better than reverse engineering an SMR (610 was just way to heavy for the kind of dirt riding I do)
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I don't ride much dirt yet, but when I do its on the 250smr! (never got dirt wheels with it)
 
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