I have over a full year on this TE250i. Has not missed a beat and is my favorite dirtbike ever. EFI has been flawless and a big step forward over a carb. Fantastic bike.
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
TE/TC First ride - Trail Tech TE250i EFI 2 stroke
- Thread starter Motosportz
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V8Astro
Husqvarna
AA Class
I bought my TE250i about a month ago and have already modded it to the moon. I rode it once with the stock ecu. The low idle and lean surging at part throttle had me ordering a GET ECU right away. I got a DEP pipe with it. I got it from Slavens and they claim they setup their own maps in-house. The bike ran perfect then.
I also installed the idle adjustment screw. I’m still playing with it to find the best combo of idle screw and air bleed. The GET instructions say 2.5 turns out but I’ve found it’ll idle rock solid at much less.
Today I installed the Slavens S3 head for low elevation. It picked up a lot of power but I’m still not sure I’m sold on it. It sounds like it may have some detonation and that concerns me. I’m running an NGK BR7EIX plug. There is more spooge now...which is to say there was one little dribble on the silencer. But I was running it hard. Gotta see what it’ll do after the mods ya know? But the spooge could be from my idle screw settings. I may just go back to 2.5 turns on the air bleed and adjust the throttle plate accordingly.
I ride my bike 98% street so having the injection spot on is important to me. If it bangs and bucks like my GasGas it would drive me crazy
I also installed the idle adjustment screw. I’m still playing with it to find the best combo of idle screw and air bleed. The GET instructions say 2.5 turns out but I’ve found it’ll idle rock solid at much less.
Today I installed the Slavens S3 head for low elevation. It picked up a lot of power but I’m still not sure I’m sold on it. It sounds like it may have some detonation and that concerns me. I’m running an NGK BR7EIX plug. There is more spooge now...which is to say there was one little dribble on the silencer. But I was running it hard. Gotta see what it’ll do after the mods ya know? But the spooge could be from my idle screw settings. I may just go back to 2.5 turns on the air bleed and adjust the throttle plate accordingly.
I ride my bike 98% street so having the injection spot on is important to me. If it bangs and bucks like my GasGas it would drive me crazy
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Update... bike has 166 hours, on the stock piston... Runs hard. WTF? Been a super solid bike. You do seem to need to change the plug on these about every 50 hours cuz it burns them up. Love the bike. But...
Rode a 2020 TE300i, frame geometry is noticeably improved. Seems to have finally lost the KTM twitchy feel. Reminds me more of a Beta or new GG handling wise which for me is a step in the right direction. Motor felt a little soft which for our riding (tight technical and slick) was about perfect. We both thought it had about the same power as my TE250i with 166 hours on it :>) but with a little more bottom. I really liked his 2020 and want to move to that platform now.
Good times.
Rode a 2020 TE300i, frame geometry is noticeably improved. Seems to have finally lost the KTM twitchy feel. Reminds me more of a Beta or new GG handling wise which for me is a step in the right direction. Motor felt a little soft which for our riding (tight technical and slick) was about perfect. We both thought it had about the same power as my TE250i with 166 hours on it :>) but with a little more bottom. I really liked his 2020 and want to move to that platform now.
Good times.
Kelly, was it stock? If so did you notice any mapping improvement over previous years? There are still some 19 250s sitting in dealers and I've been sorta thinking...
100% except the suspension. My 17 TE250i has been flawless EFI wise. This one seems to run great too.
New 2021 TE250i coming tomorrow. This one is staying in the family as an engineer here bought it.
Bam
87husky500xc
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Sweet bike! I would like to ride a te vs my tx just to compare the two. Look forward to the ride report 
What's the plan with the forks?
I'll be adding details here... http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/new-2021-te250i.91037/#post-663834