• 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.

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Husqvarna is title sponser of 2012 AMA DS trail riding series.

This is nice. But I think the fact that no currently shipping Husqvarna US model has more than about an 80 mile range is going to be a problem for most dual sport routes... I guess they shouldn't have dropped the 630 from the US market...
 
Dropped it because to expensive to produce, everything will be made in China in the future. Same with the 450-510 motor series. Rebadging is the new direction.
 
I rode my TE511 in the AMA DS Blackdog last year. got 90 miles and still had .3 left. Packed fuel and did not need it.
 
I can do +90 miles on both my WR 300 & 630 without hitting reserve. Maybe I ride too slow
 
Dropped it because to expensive to produce, everything will be made in China in the future. Same with the 450-510 motor series. Rebadging is the new direction.
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I've known or at least strongly suspected this was the new direction for a while now, but man does it hurt to see it written.
 
Rob578 said:
I can do +90 miles on both my WR 300 & 630 without hitting reserve. Maybe I ride too slow
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90 plus how the heck you do that on a stock tank My stock tank with a rizer for the dry break is 3 gallons.
The last 2 desert races were 40 miles loops I drained the tank after the race and both times had just a few ounces over a quart left Same thing on the CR 125 40 miles to 3 gallons.Maybe on a good day 45 miles With my IMS 3.5 I did make it 65 miles once at a race in Utha
 
My TE450 will go more than 110 miles before hitting reserve when there isn't a lot of hard terrain and deep sand. The least amount of miles it's gotten is 72 before reserve. I don't think that my stock WR300 could go more than about 40 miles though.
 
Motosportz said:
I rode my TE511 in the AMA DS Blackdog last year. got 90 miles and still had .3 left. Packed fuel and did not need it.
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I get 70 miles on my 310 with the JD 6x Surge tuner. And I ride at a novice pace most of the time.
 
Up-tite said:
Dropped it because to expensive to produce, everything will be made in China in the future. Same with the 450-510 motor series. Rebadging is the new direction.
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I am pretty new at Husqvarna ownership, but have always thought of Husky as the finest dirt bikes on the planet. Reading this is downer for sure. I can imagine it is a downer for you to with your history with the brand. I am glad we got our TE 630's. We enjoy the heck out of them. Rebadging being the future of Husqvarna, Beta may find alot more of their fine thumpers being sold.
 
I managed the managed the 90 miles at the Shenandoah 500 DS ride last Oct. Have Keihin Carb 170 MJ with VP C12 and Motul @ 50:1. Bike was geared 15/53

Always seems to do around 45mpg no matter what type of riding I do
 
Doing so gets your name in the schedule section of the monthly ama magazine. It was ktm last year and BMW sponsored the adventure series. Some places in the center north of the country have quite a selection of the dual sport events it would seem looking at a 2011 magazine.

fran
 
Colo moto said:
I've known or at least strongly suspected this was the new direction for a while now, but man does it hurt to see it written.
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Where it is made really does not matter if the end product is quality ...

XLEnduroMan said:
I am pretty new at Husqvarna ownership, but have always thought of Husky as the finest dirt bikes on the planet. Reading this is downer for sure. I can imagine it is a downer for you to with your history with the brand. I am glad we got our TE 630's. We enjoy the heck out of them. Rebadging being the future of Husqvarna, Beta may find alot more of their fine thumpers being sold.
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What bmw is does with dirt bikes is up in the air...They'll pretty much leave that part to the Italians I bet ...

Husqvarnas are great dirt bikes today and the past ... The 2T machines they made 12 yrs ago still win races on the highest levels of racing ... You'll most likely never wear that 630 out ... And the day you sell, we'll wait and see what is on the table then ...
 
I think we need some definitions
dirt bike
dual sport bike
adventure bike

Then of course if you don't use the suspention that came on that 12 year old bike to win at the highest level does that really count?
 
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