• 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.

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510 owners.... tight going

nice video! I'd ride the 510 there but much rather use a light 125 if I wasn't doing any other riding besides the trails right there that day.

Was Belfair #2 yours also? THat looked even tighter.. Things do look different though when the leaves are off the trees.


Here are a few more tight woods shots taken in the upper mid-west all of which I ride the 510 on. I only took photos when it straightened out enough to stop and photo. In addition I rode another 200 miles that day and had 14/47 gearing.

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brock;12801 said:
Maybe I should keep the 01 WR250 for the really snotty events and get the 510 for the rest!
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That would be smart. Perfect Bush bike...:thumbsup:

The 510 is a great bike... but it ain’t no Trials machine.

To have a second bike to whip around in the real nasty stuff would be a great Idea.:D
 
I'm 5'10 155lbs w/o gear and a real green off road rider. She's a handful for me no matter where we ride up here:) I'm adapting to it more every ride. I literally lost my grip with the throttle hand from acceleration on whoops on my last ride with Kelly & crew and somehow didn't fly off the trail in the the abyss. Clutch is your best friend. I'm going to respring it eventually to get a little more sag with my scrawny butt on it however, it's the best offroad bike I've ever had the pleasure of owning. Has taken lots of falls and still keeps ticking. That single track area at Belfair nicknamed "Chernobyl" kicked my ass for the day! Great experience.
 
Coffee;12889 said:
You guys are NUTS :eek:

How the heck can a 510 be an advantage in that stuff??? :confused:
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Truckin got my chips cashed in. keep truckin, like the do-dah man....... just keep truckin on.

Truckin, Im a goin home. whoa whoa baby, back where I belong, Back home, sit down and patch my bones, and get back truckin on.


the lyrics are provided for educational purposes only ...
 
I had a 510 and loved it. What some have printed is true- it will go just about anywhere, and it is a ton of fun in the open stuff. That incredibly tractable torque and rocket-on-demand is intoxicating. I wish I still had it......as my second bike.

Most of my riding is in tight woods in attack mode. My TXC 250 just does it better.


paul
 
I'm an honest 5' 8" ( no shoes ) and 170#. I've been riding 250 two strokes for the last 9 years, but I'm not having much problem with my TE510 in that sort for stuff. It did take a few rides to figure out how to use such a big bike in it.

As mentioned before, if I have trouble with the bike it's more to do with the seat height.

Jeff and FAST1's pix look like what's around here.
 
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ijH4wnWApvA
This is one of our events with more open going but still it has a fair share of tight single track.

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Here's a photo (hopefully) of this years D2D event, it rained all day. Its me on my WR250 by the way.:)
12hrs, 35th out of 217 finishers as a two man team.
 
MOTORHEAD;12911 said:
I'm an honest 5' 8" ( no shoes ) and 170#. I've been riding 250 two strokes for the last 9 years, but I'm not having much problem with my TE510 in that sort for stuff. It did take a few rides to figure out how to use such a big bike in it.

As mentioned before, if I have trouble with the bike it's more to do with the seat height.

Jeff and FAST1's pix look like what's around here.
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We need to hookup for a ride! :cheers:
 
brock;12912 said:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ijH4wnWApvA
This is one of our events with more open going but still it has a fair share of tight single track.

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Here's a photo (hopefully) of this years D2D event, it rained all day. Its me on my WR250 by the way.:)
12hrs, 35th out of 217 finishers as a two man team.
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Good ride. :applause:

I'd like to think my 510 would work good in that race. While some think the weight feeling the 510 gives off is a handicap, but I think in stuff like that it teends to be an advantage. Rut and things that tend upset my old 250's, the 510 just seems to ignore. :thumbsup:
 
Coffee;12823 said:
I cannot imagine a more dangerous situation *for me* than to have a 510 with lowered gearing and good traction. My throttle control is not that good :cripple:

That comment only applies to *me*.
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I got a $100 that says you're wrong:D:cheers:


It applies to at least one other member on here :cripple:
 
Ruffus;12967 said:
I got a $100 that says you're wrong:D:cheers:


It applies to at least one other member on here :cripple:
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Hope you are getting healed up! It's been a few years of healing for both of us. I'm about as healthy as I'll ever be at this point - except for the lack of exercise, and that is entirely my fault.
 
Jeff@TireBalls;12851 said:
Looks similar to what we ride here except we go around rocks instead of bushes...

http://kywoodsriders.com/files/COPPERHEAD.wmv
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Jeff that vid just rocks. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

That's the kinda stuff I like. Still pretty hard on a 510.....But my GG Trials is all over it.
It really make it a bit easier for the first person I find cuz your always waiting...even if just for a moment for who's ever behind ya.
That way you get to catch you breath ...a little.

Man I gotta get my helmet cam working.
 
If all I rode was tight nasty woods, the 2 bikes I would consider are the Husky TE310 or the KTM XCW300. The 510 is more suited as an open racecourse or desert bike. I'm 6'1"/215# and it's a lot of bike in the tight stuff.
 
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