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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Cold Starting.. and the choke

teknic

teknic

Husqvarna
B Class
Hello,

2009 SMR510, its getting colder here and I'm having trouble starting the bike. I've noticed that the choke is impossible to pull on when starting the bike because the clutch needs to be pulled in while starting, the e-start button is on the other handlebar... I only have two hands, how am I supposed to reach the choke? For the past two days I've been cranking up the idle screw and then starting it... backing it off as she warms up.

What do people normally do here? The choke knob on my bike doesn't stay pulled out, you have to hold it open the entire time, is this normal for this year? Anyone else have cold start issues?

Cheers,
 
HA! Didn't see that one coming...

On another note, I'm thinking of getting a silicone heating pad and putting it on the oil pan, along with a timer that turns it on 2 hours before I ride every morning... just need to find one small enough for the 2.5 x 2.5 inches of space Husky gave me.
 
teknic said:
HA! Didn't see that one coming...

On another note, I'm thinking of getting a silicone heating pad and putting it on the oil pan, along with a timer that turns it on 2 hours before I ride every morning... just need to find one small enough for the 2.5 x 2.5 inches of space Husky gave me.
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I put this little ceramic space heater under the bike on our few frigid nights in Texas when planning to ride later.image.jpg
 
I ended up purchasing a ProHeat heating pad and attached it to the bottom of my oil pan. I went with a 2x3 which seems small but works well. I have it on a timer, turns on 2 hours before I ride in the morning, and the bike starts up like its summer.
 
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