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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'09 TE 450 Stalling in the steep stuff - Newbie owner

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Telemachus

Husqvarna
B Class
I have been on a plated XR250 for the past nine years, but just got a low mileage '09 TE 450 from a knowledgable owner who had done all the right mods: power up kit, IMS tank, gearing changed to 13/50, etc. I enjoy tight single track and steeper rocky terrain and my old XR could tractor up almost anything I was willing to try, but when I took the Husky into the same steep rocky stuff, I kept stalling. The TE 450 is superior in ever other way to the XR and will be great for expanding the range of trails I can access, but I really thought it would have more low end grunt (especially with the gearing lowered from stock). It feels like the idle is low, but it is idling at around 1750. Am I going to need to learn to feather the clutch more effectively (I'd rather just tractor) or is there something mechanical I could look at (besides a Recluse)? Thanks for any suggestions you can offer.
 
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