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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2013 TE310R Squirrelly in the sand

Jim S

Jim S

Husqvarna
AA Class
I have a 2013 TE310R. I normally ride hard pack fire roads and trails in SoCal but this weekend I went out desert with lots of very deep sand washes. I found the TE310R very hard to control and always wanting to dive down with even the smallest turn of the bars so I ended up riding by leaning only to turn the bike on the sand. I'm aware of keeping the weight way back for sand riding. I don't recall this difficulty riding other bikes in years past. I have the triple clamp at the very top of the forks. I use a Motoz tractionator 140/80/18 rear and a Battlecross 40F 90/100/21 front. Inflation was 14/14 and then I tried 16/16 which seemed to work better (less sidewall flex?) The rear shock is about halfway. Any ideas to to improve the sand handling? Different tires? Lower the shock more? Or is this just a characteristic of an Enduro type bike?
 
Sand is sand, dirt is dirt and the suspension cant handle both if you aim for perfection. Too soft can be used in dirt but is a battle in sand. At least that is what I have experienced through life. The softer the surface, the more strength I need from both front and rear. Might be wrong if you ask some other but this is how I tune my bike .
 
the old husky manual tells to stiffen the compression for sand. also raise the triples and increase rear sag
 
Soderberg said:
Sand is sand, dirt is dirt and the suspension cant handle both if you aim for perfection. Too soft can be used in dirt but is a battle in sand. At least that is what I have experienced through life. The softer the surface, the more strength I need from both front and rear. Might be wrong if you ask some other but this is how I tune my bike .
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All of Michigan is sand and I ride the same bike. We set the suspension firm for the sand and it works very well. Keep on the gas and stand on the pegs and you will be fine. Remember, elbows up and knees flexed….
 
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