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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

High speed instability?

J

James Patton

Husqvarna
AA Class
I have noticed several people lamenting the stability at speeds over 60mph on the 449/511's.
I am a little obsessive about maintenance and the safety of my bike when riding. I checked my rim runout,
Steering head adjustment, tire pressures. Bumped the compression settings a couple of clicks and set out
For some higher speed straight line runs early the morning. The bike up to 85 plus can feel twitchy and
a little unstable if you grip bars to tight or letting weight pull back on bars as you are still accelerating.
If you are very far forward also. If you are sitting well back, relaxed, light hold on bars with some body
Weight on bars, bike seems fine. I did the same thing on a DRZ400S, it handled about the same (just takes
a lot longer to get going that fast) I think if the bike is set up properly they handle just fine, remember your
on the 255lb dirt bike with knobbies/rimlocks. Riding technique seems to be the most important aspect.
The more you ride them at speed, the less you notice any irregularities. A stabilizer may be a lot of help
for some. I always ran one on my old airhead BMW's and it was very helpful at 80 plus.
 
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