• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

FE/FC 2014 FE 250

Husky-Nut

Husky-Nut

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hola Everyone,

First post - please be gentle! :thumbsup:

Thinking of pulling the trigger on a new 2014 FE 250. :thinking: New England area, C-rider, zeroing in on 50. :oldman:

Coming off a 2007 KTM 400 XCW. Love it, but it's a lot of bike, when it gets snotty. :banghead:

I'm more of a lugger type. And I don't want to be tired at the end of the day. :naughty:

Your thoughts? :popcorn:

Cheers! :cheers:
 
Welcome! I made the transition from 450's to 250's/310's for racing a few years ago and I very seldom regret it. Still having the energy to charge 100% at the end of the race made the whole thing sooooo much more enjoyable for me. I don't think anyone makes a 250 that can be both raced and lugged down low. You'll have to learn to ride up higher in the RPM's, but once you do you'll be smiling all day.
 
I'm a 250cc clutch-lever using, dirt bike rider ... This clutch device allows the rider to ~slightly add RPMs to help keep an engine from stalling at low speeds and this same device helps keep a rear tire from spinning out too crazily... Its a world-wonder when you can use one even remotely close to the PRO riders ... And only 1 finger is needed to do all this wonderful work.

This same clutch device can also be used to eliminate engine braking that so many complain about on 4t engines ... And again, only 1 finger is needed ... So don't be lazy with that single clutch finger ...

Good luck with your new bike :0)
 
You might be better off with a TE300 2 stroke. Lighter, very luggable, much less rev's needed to keep it under way. The 250 4 strokes are mostly high RPM motors. Not that you can't lug them but they like revs to make power.
 
Agree a 250 4 stroke generally gets ridden like a 125 which is not at all "a lugger". I've been very happy so far with my 350 4 stroke and in stock form with an ignition map switch set on " tame" I would think it would be much more manageable than the 400 and it still feels much like a 250f in handling. Just my 2.
 
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