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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'14 TE 511 Mileage

With the Nomad tank I get 100+ miles now and that tank can take a beating and took 10 minutes to install!! Very pleased with it, plus MUCH cheaper than the IMS route and does not add tons of weight or change the feel of the bike. Motosportz sells it BTW :)
 
Bryce said:
With the Nomad tank I get 100+ miles now and that tank can take a beating and took 10 minutes to install!! Very pleased with it, plus MUCH cheaper than the IMS route and does not add tons of weight or change the feel of the bike. Motosportz sells it BTW :)
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And you can remove it when not needed. I use mine a lot. Works well. (shamless plug)
 
Motosportz said:
yep, 70-90 DSing. more like 55 off road.
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I have to say I am quite surprised by these numbers. I cannot imagine that the 511 is THAT different than the 449.

My brand new 449 running Race Map II is getting a bit over 100 dual sport...with more trail than road. I also had two tanks of solid trail and got around 80 with about an inch left in the tank.

I do like the look and ease of the Nomad. I am interested in seeing how my 449 does at elevation. Typically my rides out west are the only time I need > 100 mile range, and from my experience with other EFI bikes, our mileage goes up substantially in the 8-12K range.
 
bigmo said:
I have to say I am quite surprised by these numbers. I cannot imagine that the 511 is THAT different than the 449.

My brand new 449 running Race Map II is getting a bit over 100 dual sport...with more trail than road. I also had two tanks of solid trail and got around 80 with about an inch left in the tank.

I do like the look and ease of the Nomad. I am interested in seeing how my 449 does at elevation. Typically my rides out west are the only time I need > 100 mile range, and from my experience with other EFI bikes, our mileage goes up substantially in the 8-12K range.
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Do you have a JD or PCV, stock exhaust or fmf? I have a JD and FMF. Before the upgrade it had race map II/stock exhaust and got 100+ miles to a tank but had way less power. Now it's a beast and gets 25-40 mpg.
 
My stock (not powered up) 2012 TE449 gets 50 MPG in the Nevada desert trail riding at 2500 or 3000 ft elevation. In Colorado at 7000 to 11000 feet I got closer to 60 MPG but there was a lot of (50%) pavement.

I also am a fan of the Nomad tank.
 
@Bryce
My figures were a basically stock 449 on Race Map II w/ stock pipe. I just had my bike in at the dealer for a warranty fix and they loaded the open exhaust map aka BMW Race Map #3. I will have an opportunity to really test that out in two weeks.

I spent far too long around too many guns with no hearing protection... So now I really value the quiet. In all honesty it is one of the most desirable aspects about the TE (to me anyway).
 
bigmo said:
@Bryce
My figures were a basically stock 449 on Race Map II w/ stock pipe. I just had my bike in at the dealer for a warranty fix and they loaded the open exhaust map aka BMW Race Map #3. I will have an opportunity to really test that out in two weeks.

I spent far too long around too many guns with no hearing protection... So now I really value the quiet. In all honesty it is one of the most desirable aspects about the TE (to me anyway).
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I would still have the stock exhaust on my TE if I had not destroyed it trying to remove the cat. The FMF is way too loud for my taste even with the quiet core insert, but much cheaper than buying another stock exhaust can. Now I have to wear ear plugs when I ride.
 
I just brought a new 511 today, pick it up the next day, most my bikes i like to open right up, and i believe a loud bike is a safer bike because oncoming traffic can here you before they see you, my one has a acro fitted standard, are they a straight through, how loud are they. so many questions
 
With my FMF PC4 with Quiet Core insert, I was unable to pass the db check during a recent Dual Sport ride:naughty: . I had to install the stocker to pass the check (then swapped back to the FMF for the ride:lol:).
 
bigmo said:
I have to say I am quite surprised by these numbers. I cannot imagine that the 511 is THAT different than the 449.

My brand new 449 running Race Map II is getting a bit over 100 dual sport...with more trail than road. I also had two tanks of solid trail and got around 80 with about an inch left in the tank.

I do like the look and ease of the Nomad. I am interested in seeing how my 449 does at elevation. Typically my rides out west are the only time I need > 100 mile range, and from my experience with other EFI bikes, our mileage goes up substantially in the 8-12K range.
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you must be really EZ ont he throttle. Those are very high MPG numbers from what I have seen on my bike and other 449/511's. My bike is uncorked with a different muffler and Map3 with JD tuner. Runs great / lots of power.
 
I get 75 to 100 depending on use. My problem is not fuel mileage, it's tire mileage. This thing eats rear tires, in a good
way. LOL
 
I've run bone dry at 96.5 twice. Riding fire roads most of the day. I installed the IMS tank. no more worries.
 
Sailingaz said:
I've run bone dry at 96.5 twice. Riding fire roads most of the day. I installed the IMS tank. no more worries.
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Where were you riding? Elevation?

I bet I can get close to 100 with mixed trails and fire roads. I generally have found that so far, some of my worst mileage was ont he pavement. Seems that pushing me down the road (im a lightweight BTW) at 60 mph takes a ton a fuel.

If I can get 85+ reliably at home and 100+ int he mountains, I think I will just ride it as-is and maybe throw a double sized MSR bottle on the front. That nice deep fender well is begging for fuel.
 
Motosportz said:
I'm guessing you need to remove the IMS to get to the airfilter?
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Yes.

Radar said:
My stock (not powered up) 2012 TE449 gets 50 MPG in the Nevada desert trail riding at 2500 or 3000 ft elevation. In Colorado at 7000 to 11000 feet I got closer to 60 MPG but there was a lot of (50%) pavement.

I also am a fan of the Nomad tank.
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My WR511 gets 41mpg with race map #3. I carry 3.5 gallons of fuel for a 143 mile range.
 
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