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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Advice 2009 v 2010

S

sidunvicious

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm a new dirt rider, middle aged and no illusions about a late racing career. I am considering the TE 450. After alot of reading I'm still confused.

Is there significant worth to the 2010 suspension changes, including head geometry and better(?) frame construction to justify the additional cost? Any other factors I should consider?

Thanks for the help.

Sid:excuseme:
 
in my opinion,dont get too worked up about the different forks for 2010 or the shorter swingarm.the bike was very good in 2009,i have not been convinced yet that the 2010 te 450 forks are better.dan
 
09 or 10 you would be happy with ether there all great bikes, At 41 years old my first Husky was a 06 TE250 great bike just not a great duel sport if you are going to spend any time on the road. I sold it to buy a TE610 and in my opinion the 610 is the most under rated dirt bike that can do 75 on the freeway all day long. I did 200 + miles this past week end in the AZ desert on road/off road/sand and rocks and never felt the 610 was too heavy or hard too handle.

Just my two cents.:cheers:
Dan L
 
MotoXotica;72502 said:
in my opinion, don't get too worked up about the different forks for 2010 or the shorter swingarm.the bike was very good in 2009,i have not been convinced yet that the 2010 te 450 forks are better.dan
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This really needs to go no further.:thumbsup: You question has been answered.

Even if you were a very experienced rider I feel you would still have a hard time telling them apart.

:cheers:
 
Ditto with the above. If you are only socially riding the 09 Mazzoks were really good for joe average. The price difference will be substantial and will allow you to bling a bit and still pocket some change.
 
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