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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Been riding this thing for a while and...

Mike-AK

Husqvarna
Pro Class
...my opinion is whoever designed the transmission on the '12 TE310 was smoking crack. If you put a big enough rear sprocket on it to make 1st gear useful, 6th is useless and vice versa, and the spread between the gears is ridiculous tight. Love my bike, but just sayin'...the Italians got it all wrong. Hopefully the Austrians will get it right.
 
While I agree that it would be great for the transmissions to be changeable, that would not be practical.

Unless I am mistaken the 2012 TE310 has about the same spread of transmission as the other non-TC Husqvarna off-road bikes. The TC's have a much more closer spaced transmission.
 
Has anyone looked into custom gears? There must be companies that make them. I'm sure if there is enough demand and the price isnt crazy we could get someone to make some replacement gears.
 
...my opinion is whoever designed the transmission on the '12 TE310 was smoking crack. If you put a big enough rear sprocket on it to make 1st gear useful, 6th is useless and vice versa, and the spread between the gears is ridiculous tight. Love my bike, but just sayin'...the Italians got it all wrong. Hopefully the Austrians will get it right.

It must have been the same guy (or gal) that did the TE449. They took a well spaced BMW 5 speed and made it into a too tight 6 speed then sold it as a dual sport, genus.
 
It'd be nice to have a more useful 5th and 6th. On my TE250 2010 - 6th feels identical to 5th.. and is maybe good for an extra 2mph..

Wide gear ratio can be good and bad.. for the real tight stuff, it'd be a little difficult - but at same time, the 250/310s are so easy to whip around that you may not miss the close gear ratio as you would think, especially with a 50 rear sprocket.
 
The spaces between the gears apart in rear teeth are about:
(1 front tooth equals about 3.5 rear teeth)

1-2: 11
2-3-4: 10
4-5: 8
5-6: 5

Putting on a rear 45 gives you 7th gear but makes 1st 1.5
 
Almost all huskys as spaced to narrow IMHO. We voiced this 10 years ago, no one cares. To make gears is very expensive, high liability and very few customers want to split their cases if and when they were actually available.
 
...my opinion is whoever designed the transmission on the '12 TE310 was smoking crack. If you put a big enough rear sprocket on it to make 1st gear useful, 6th is useless and vice versa, and the spread between the gears is ridiculous tight. Love my bike, but just sayin'...the Italians got it all wrong. Hopefully the Austrians will get it right.
I also have a problem when I'm really bouncing off the rev limiter accelerating and changing gears often the gearbox finds a false neutral for a slit second before it goes in to the next gear, have you experienced this?
 
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