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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Has anyone ridden a 310?

W

wade195

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hello all

Has anyone here ridden or own a new 310?

I currenly only own left kickers

I am curious if you all thing a 50+ begginer like myself would be ok with one of these?


Blessings

Doug
Tn
 
I moved you post from the press release thread cause it seems you were seeking input from others about the bike instead of asking something regarding the press release.
 
I have a 310 and it is only my second bike (pretty new to the game at age 42). While I don't have the widest experience, I think it is great. Still breaking it in, but obviously stronger than a 250 without the big/heavy 450 feel. It is tall, the fuel injection rocks, and seems well built with excellent parts (my 2008 Yamaha XT 250 seemed to have quite a few parts last refined in the 1970's)...

The Yamaha seems a bit more comfortable at highway speeds, but not much beter than the husky.

Try one. See how is goes...
 
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This is my third bike and my first Husky. The fit and finish is great. Has all the high end parts on it and is ready to race right from the box. Sounds great. The rear shock I love. The forks are ok. It's as heavy as a KTM 450 at 277lbs. The fuel injection is good. I don't know what type of riding you are doing but this bike is not for open riding. It does 50 mph and that's about it. The seat sucks. It has great bottom to mid power but does tend to fall off up top. It great for what I do which is tight woods riding.

Jeff
 
Last Lap;29113 said:
...this bike is not for open riding. It does 50 mph and that's about it.
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Before you hit the rev limiter or until the rpms get 'up there'? My 2006 TE250 with stock gearing will go 80mph+. I'm uncomfortable at that high of rpm but the bike is certainly capable.
 
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Coffee;29114 said:
Before you hit the rev limiter or until the rpms get 'up there'? My 2006 TE250 with stock gearing will go 80mph+. I'm uncomfortable at that high of rpm but the bike is certainly capable.
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I never ran it to the rev limiter but at 50mph The tach is in the high 9's. So 60mph is likley. No way 80mph. My point was that if you hit hard roads or more wide open stuff this is not... in my opinion the bike to ride. I ride this bike like I rode my two stroke. Using revs and shifiting alot.
 
Thank you Coffee

You were correct. My apoligies. I will do better at sticking to the posts.

Thank you all for the information. It is well recieved.

Doug
 
G/F says her 2008 is @ about 7.5K @ 50mph. She just got it 4/1/09 so she hasn't gotten it to much yet. With a 12.5K redline I imagine it should hit 80mph like Coffee does.
 
The 250/310 is definitely geared for off road, not for cruising around IMO. That said, even with mine geared down with a 52 sprocket on the rear, I've easily hit 60+mph just on connector roads between trails.
 
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