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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Just bought a 2013 TM MX 300...Any thoughts?

Yes congrats. My son has a 2011 TM 250 MX that I picked up new and it's been solid and trouble free. He sent the head to RB to allow safe operation on 93 gas, added a FW weight, and had RB do his thing on the carb. Oh yeah they are FAST bikes. Enjoy.
 
Camstyn said:
I've got a 2014 144MX and 250MX, both are great bikes. I also had a 2013 250MX, 2011 450MX and a 2002 400MX.

What's the history with that one? Looks like it's in nice condition. Seems like most people who buy these bikes are either serious racers, or are total beginners who buy them because they look cool and never ride them. It's great to find one that's barely been ridden but go over it and make sure the possibly clueless owner knew what he was doing and didn't bugger anything up.

A Lectron carb really made my 250MX run smooth as butter.. Run at least a 30% mix of race gas with premium pump. MXA had a good write-up on the 2013's, they loved the 300 but didn't like how stiff the suspension was.
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I bought the bike from the original owner who says he only used it for a couple months. Apparently he bought the bike to race in the Idaho city 100 that he does every year. He told me he trained on it for a couple months bought a Scalvini pipe, FMF turbine, had the suspension revalved for single track, installed a flywheel weight and then'raced that one time. It seems really clean to me and the only problem on it is that the rear number plate is cracked (as seen in the picture) and replacement plastics are proving difficult to find. I don't have any ride time yet but my one complaint so far is also about the plastics. They are very rigid and very brittle! All of the fenders on this bike have almost no flex and give to them. So I can see myself breaking the oem plastics a lot unless there is an aftermarket option.

Onto the race gas. I live in Idaho and ride from 4500ft-10kft, is it necessary to mix race gas or use octane booster at these elevations with 91 pump gas?

Thanks everyone!
 
MotoXotica sells TM's. Dan and Ann know their stuff. Check with them for your awesome TM. :thumbsup:
 
your going to like it!! Engine isnt really as wild as back in the day. Riding my 12 tm 250 mx back to back with my old tm (I think it was a 98 or 99) the old was was a HUGE handful. While the new one from what I understand even the moto model uses the same flywheel as the enduro version they sell and you can feel it. My bike NEVER stalled in tight woods. Geared rear sprocket up two teeth as most euro bikes are more suited for grass track gearing. Yours may have rubber mount bars which would be and upgrade as I felt the vibration... My stock Moto suspension in tight woods would really beat me up a little and I felt on this bike the better shape you were in the better the bike would reword you. Gas tank is to small for serious woods options and at the time I was told the cool aluminum tank that was available would not fit the bike....... Clutch pull on mine was horrible for a juice clutch however I did find out the bike had heavy duty clutch springs.... Unlike a Gas Gas (which I like as well) I found no quirks with the bike at all...Handling was very positive with NO bad traits as well as steering lock in tight woods was great with no problems. Parts at least for me were a minor issue and the us distributer at that time. I won't go into details was not my favorite. That and the clutch pull my biggest reason for riding something else.. For serious enduro I would say a revalve (most bikes need this anyways) a different muffler, lower gearing and to me a larger tank... (the tank is critical I think) Seat height is not bad and I am only 5'7" TM's are very light and most have their own trick in house made rear shock that is lighter then most shocks. If I decided to sell my 15 Husky tc 250 and buy another bike I would look into either a Beta or another TM.. I think you will like it and if you don't just let me know! Have fun. Awesome looking ride!!! PS brakes are good and a combination of brands. The front binder is pretty powerful as I learned once going around 25mph sending the back tire over the front and it took me awhile to get up... Rear brake is nice but no better then a red Husqvarna.
 
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