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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Cyclenews TXC 450 test

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Droolsport

Husqvarna
A Class
Looking at the newest online version of Cyclenews and thier enduro 450 test.

They picked the KTM first with the Husaberg and CRF450X a tie for second.

They seemed to like the TXC450 but complained about the seat height, felt big and heavy and wasnt nimble but stable. The biggest complaint was about the vibration which I have read in every test of a Husky 450. They did mention there was an aftermarket counterbalancer that was available that really helps with the vibration. Anyone know of this counterbalancer they are talking about?
 
Droolsport;40989 said:
Anyone know of this counterbalancer they are talking about?
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Yeah it is called more money paid to the magazine from Husky in order to finish first in these tests....


Oh you meant the counterbalancer to remove the vibration. Sorry no idea. :)
 
Dirty Bikes;40991 said:
Yeah it is called more money paid to the magazine from Husky in order to finish first in these tests....


Oh you meant the counterbalancer to remove the vibration. Sorry no idea. :)
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:lol:
 
The TE's have a counterbalancer. I took one out once, bike really vibrated!

I dont think anyone makes an aftermarket counterbalancer, but the OEM unit is available from a TE.

If anyone does make one, i will link it to the aftermarket list.
 
Dirty Bikes;40991 said:
Yeah it is called more money paid to the magazine from Husky in order to finish first in these tests....


Oh you meant the counterbalancer to remove the vibration. Sorry no idea. :)
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I agree makes you wonder, I dont put to much faith into magazine test but you can see some tendencies in bikes from test to test. Doesnt keep the TE450 from the top of my soon to purchase list. :thumbsup:

I will drop CycleNews a line and see if they know of some obscure aftermarket company that makes a counterbalancer. More then likely they are talking about the TE version mentioned by Mike K.
 
Mike Kay;41018 said:
The TE's have a counterbalancer. I took one out once, bike really vibrated!

I dont think anyone makes an aftermarket counterbalancer, but the OEM unit is available from a TE.

If anyone does make one, i will link it to the aftermarket list.
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Are you sure the TE has one? I don't the they have had one since 05. SMR has one.
 
I am pretty sure the 09 TE's have a CB, although I haven't been in one to know for certain.
 
I like the vibes. But I've ridden Buells most my life too.:D

It's just another way of the machine doing its best to communicate to you the rider.:cool:
 
Droolsport;41133 said:
Having never ridden a Husky 4T do they really vibrate that much?
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When brand new they about shake themselves apart. After break in the 450 does vibrate but I can't say as it really bothered me with my 2007 TE450. The vibration is much lower frequency than say a two stroke that buzzes as much as vibrates.

NC
 
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