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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

First impressions TE310

Nordic

Nordic

Husqvarna
A Class
Picked up my new 2012 yesterday. My last dirt bike was a 1980 RM250, and so you probably can see where this is going.... The bike was powered up at the dealership in St. Louis (great group to work with), and we added some aluminum radiator guards, decent hand guards, a reusable oil filter, and trickle charger for the very small battery. This should get me through the break-in and then I will re-evaluate the need for any other modifications (tires, skid plate, FI tuner seem likely).

I definitely see where others are coming from with regard to the challenges of throttle control on the bike; it is on or off. It is also on the loud side for my late 40s, living in the 'burbs life. Right now, the bike just needs to be ridden. After a few tanks of gas have run through it (and oil changes), I may end up looking into the JD FI Tuner (Power Surge 6x). As for quieting the bike, the threads here would seem to indicate that there are not any truly effective options (maybe some ear plugs for myself and the neighbors.... Walgreens has some great deals). It is not really any worse than those gas-powered leaf blowers, and not as bad as a chainsaw, both of which we all tolerate.

The unplugged bike, seems to have lots of torque, at least for this former teenage MXer. I can't imagine that being an issue. It is also clear to me that I will be looking for a trailer, as the nearest large ridable state park land is about 20 miles away. That would seem like the absolute maximum that I would want to spend on the road with this bike. Although, maybe this will change as the thing breaks in and smooths out some.

All said, it seems to be exactly what it is billed as, a racing bike with lights and a plate. At 6'2" I am just able to sit with my feel fully on the ground, and that may be an issue for anyone under 6'. Much to my kid's dismay (and wife's relief), there are no passenger pegs.

I am really looking forward to getting this machine of the asphalt soon.
 
Congratulations and welcome to a Husky owners best friend! Sounds like you bought your new bike with your eyes wide open. I am also 6'2" and have a TE 449, when I ride my sons TE 250 it is a blast. I added a pipe to my 449 and changed the countershaft sprocket to lower the gearing. I have planned to get the JD but after 13 months of riding I do not feel it is necessary. Get out and ride! I hope all your snow has melted away!
 
I've got the same bike. You might want to look into the TXC ECU and 12-hole injector. The G2 throttle tamer helps the on/off throttle on the bottom, and moves it up to the midrange where you would expect (and be able to better use) the power hit. If you are going to do any trail riding with it at all, you might benefit from a gearing change as well. Rear sprockets in the range of 45-48 seem to be popular.

http://www.mototote.com

http://www.husqvarnafactory.nl/pdf/2012.htm
 
Welcome, hope you love the new bike. I have a 2012 TE511, and live 20 miles east of St. Louis.
Some of the gateway guys ride at the club I belong to once and awhile. Have fun, change oil often,
 
Mike-AK said:
I've got the same bike. You might want to look into the TXC ECU and 12-hole injector. The G2 throttle tamer helps the on/off throttle on the bottom, and moves it up to the midrange where you would expect (and be able to better use) the power hit. If you are going to do any trail riding with it at all, you might benefit from a gearing change as well. Rear sprockets in the range of 45-48 seem to be popular.

http://www.mototote.com

http://www.husqvarnafactory.nl/pdf/2012.htm
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Thanks. I am ording he throttle tamer. Is the "expert" version sufficient, or do you recommend the "pro" with the Jimmy Twister?
 
I went with the G2 Dirt Tamer. You don't need the "Jimmy Twister" bearing, in fact, it will prevent you from installing bark busters, so I would specifically avoid it.
 
That is helpful and appreciated. I did a bit of reading and realized that this would require eliminating the bark busters which is not an option for me. Also, the price ($50) seems best when ordering directly from G2, as opposed to the various other vendors.
 
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