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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2012 TE511 and enduro bags

Husky19

Husky19

Husqvarna
Hello everyone I'm new to both this site and Husqvarnas. I've been riding bikes for 44 years. I used to race motocross, been riding Harley's for 22 years, and just bought a Husky TE511 to get back into dirt riding. I'd like to be able to carry extra stuff (tent, jacket, tools, tube, etc.). I've been looking online at the Wolfman E-12 enduro saddlebags and the Giant Loop Coyote. Most other bikes have some plastic covering the exhaust but on the TE the exhaust is outside all the plastic. Does anyone have any experience with either of these bags or for that matter any bag that will work well with the TE? Is the exposed pipe an issue? Thanks for any advice or help you can give me.
 
Sorry mate I've never seen any sadle bags on a te 511 I do think exhaust would be a problem you would have to build a rack to hold the right hand side off the exhust which could be mounted where the exhust bolts up and maybe where the subframe bolts on with a hoop in the middle you would need insulation maybe glued to the back of the sadle bag a mate of mine has hoops on his drz400 that he straps his bags to for more stability hope that helps
 
Giant loop makes a small tin heat sink that works just fine, I find I need two of them due to the hanger bracket on the pipe. I run the Mojave bags and they are great.
Yes, the pipe is an issue.
 
McKay said:
Giant loop makes a small tin heat sink that works just fine, I find I need two of them due to the hanger bracket on the pipe. I run the Mojave bags and they are great.
Yes, the pipe is an issue.
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Do you have pics of how they sit/ look?
 
Josh Feller said:
looks good! do the heat sinks mount to the bag or the can? what do you think about that t/t tail rack?
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The heat sink mounts to the can with a band clamp (big hose clamp). I am ordering a second heatsink just to be safe that I don't burn the bag once I fill it. I will jet out a better one this summer that covers more of the can. The TT tailrack is just OK. It gives you a spot to strap stuff onto, but something stronger needs to be done that ties into the subframe so that something more than plastic is holding it.
I only have a few miles on the bike so far, but headed to Moab on the 30th for a week. I needed something to hold tools and tubes and a couple MSR bottles of gas. I like the MoJavi so far, I just need to trim the straps and tidy a few things up.
That will be a good test for sure.
 
ST Rich said:
The heat sink mounts to the can with a band clamp (big hose clamp). I am ordering a second heatsink just to be safe that I don't burn the bag once I fill it. I will jet out a better one this summer that covers more of the can. The TT tailrack is just OK. It gives you a spot to strap stuff onto, but something stronger needs to be done that ties into the subframe so that something more than plastic is holding it.
I only have a few miles on the bike so far, but headed to Moab on the 30th for a week. I needed something to hold tools and tubes and a couple MSR bottles of gas. I like the MoJavi so far, I just need to trim the straps and tidy a few things up.
That will be a good test for sure.
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have fun in moab! maybe one of these days i can get out there, just broke 150mi on my '13 and need to get some stuff so thanks for the info.
 
I am carrying the MSRs in the left bag. Tubes and tire irons in the right. A few tools in the tail pack. I saw a Acerbis aux tank that was 1.6 ish gallons. I would like to tail mount that for longer days. Something tells me you could get carried away pretty quick with weight and bend the subframe without too much effort.
Nice setup BTW.
It would be nice to mount a set of Dirt Bagz.
 
Not sure but what little sub-frame we have is pretty well designed. I cant imagine overloading it unless your going for a multiday trip and throwing big bags back there.
 
Side note, just got a new Shorei battery. It is impossible to imagine how light these little things are until you actually hold one.
 
Yeah, when I had the side panels off I was wondering why t/t designed such a garbage rack considering it looks like steel box tube? Probably the exact same as the s.m. Which has the option for passenger pegs, I wonder what they rate the passenger capacity at on that? I am close to designing a rack, but it would be nice is someone else did it!
 
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