• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

R

Rhoghead

Husqvarna
I'm looking at the te511 for some dualsporting. I've been offroading/racing a crf450x. Give me your opinions on the te511 and whats available in aftermarket goodies, like 3 gallon tank and so on... 2012 or 2013...???
 
For long term abuse the CRF is a solid unit for the type of riding you are doing... My 2012 TE 511 is a great ride as well !! It has great suspension and power ! Everyone on this forum has had very little trouble with them . Major gripe is no 3 gallon tank and lack of wide ratio wich I am fine with and could be a benefit in your case, racing.... Its an ace for real technical riding / light road use..... All hard parts to make this husky bullet proof for abuse are available .....Steering dampeners, Skid plate, disk guards, handguards ect ect .... Great bike and way different than your CRF in many great ways; weight, 6-sp, more Hp and torque , more rider room, cooling fan to say a few..... The way it comes geared is a good balance , expect a cruise speed of 50 mph with a top speed of upper 80's. Not a freeway cruiser unless re-geared, not a black diamond/technical trail bike unless re-geared but doable . IMHO
 
Rearwheelin said:
For long term abuse the CRF is a solid unit for the type of riding you are doing... My 2012 TE 511 is a great ride as well !! It has great suspension and power ! Everyone on this forum has had very little trouble with them . Major gripe is no 3 gallon tank and lack of wide ratio wich I am fine with and could be a benefit in your case, racing.... Its an ace for real technical riding / light road use..... All hard parts to make this husky bullet proof for abuse are available .....Steering dampeners, Skid plate, disk guards, handguards ect ect .... Great bike and way different than your CRF in many great ways; weight, 6-sp, more Hp and torque , more rider room, cooling fan to say a few..... The way it comes geared is a good balance , expect a cruise speed of 50 mph with a top speed of upper 80's. Not a freeway cruiser unless re-geared, not a black diamond/technical trail bike unless re-geared but doable . IMHO
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Realwheelin,

Thanks for your advice. I've been comparing this bike to the Ktm 500 exc. The fuel tank issue I can deal with, since i'm used to packing fuel in bladders in my backapack. The almost $3000.00 savings on the 2012 te511 over the 500exc is alot of money. I also see your your from Bakersfield? Metoo..
 
Rhoghead said:
I also see your your from Bakersfield? Metoo..
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right on ! I have all the bells and whistles on mine , just about.... I can PM my # if you would like to come see mine and I can show you some ins and outs on it.What sold me on this bike was the price as well vs. KTM 500.... and the type of riding I do the husky stood out as a better choice for a high power tight trail bike. I paid 10k otd so still not cheap but well engineered and performance vs price is good after you uncork it...It seems to handle anything a trail can throw at it, I have mine geared low, 13-51 and it seems to be the best open class trailbike I have ridden with plates aside.
 
Motosportz has a clever fuel tank solution for these bikes... Nomad tank hooks into the main tank and hooks on the back fender.. Looks and works better than it sounds.

Check with Motosportz, they are a sponsor here.
 
I love my 2011 te511, 4mo's old, jd tuner makes a bring diff. swapped out stock tires( they are horrible ) , mine has been near perfect, with the nomad tank I can do long runs with out wondering where the next gas pump is. It really is more bike than I need,but love the power and the traction control has saved me more than once.
 
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