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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Looking at buying a 2007 TE 510

Jimbop

Jimbop

Husqvarna
New to the site and have been reading many of the threads. I'm looking at adding a Duel sport to the collection. Been riding a long time and live close to the Mountains in beautiful B.C. Canada. 'll be riding off road, and a little hwy and city. I've been riding extreme mountain bikes for 15 years as well so my bike skills are OK. I've found a 2007 TE 510 and I'm wondering what I should be concerned, looking for ect... Engine problems? The bike has had two owners and has 2100 miles on it. Larger tank, new sprockets, and a few other goodies. How will this be reliability, is there issues with carburation vrs fuel injection? anything else I should be concerned about? I have also looked at a 2010 TE 310 but it's a lot more cash.

Thanks for your help,
Jimbop
 
Jimbop said:
New to the site and have been reading many of the threads. I'm looking at adding a Duel sport to the collection. Been riding a long time and live close to the Mountains in beautiful B.C. Canada. 'll be riding off road, and a little hwy and city. I've been riding extreme mountain bikes for 15 years as well so my bike skills are OK. I've found a 2007 TE 510 and I'm wondering what I should be concerned, looking for ect... Engine problems? The bike has had two owners and has 2100 miles on it. Larger tank, new sprockets, and a few other goodies. How will this be reliability, is there issues with carburation vrs fuel injection? anything else I should be concerned about? I have also looked at a 2010 TE 310 but it's a lot more cash.

Thanks for your help,
Jimbop
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I've got an 07 TE450 with 5000 miles on it, alot of long trips both hwy and dirt. Never done anything more than change the oil and set the valves. very fun bike. very dependable you can't go wrong. Look at upgrading the lighting system.
 
Jimbop said:
New to the site and have been reading many of the threads. I'm looking at adding a Duel sport to the collection. Been riding a long time and live close to the Mountains in beautiful B.C. Canada. 'll be riding off road, and a little hwy and city. I've been riding extreme mountain bikes for 15 years as well so my bike skills are OK. I've found a 2007 TE 510 and I'm wondering what I should be concerned, looking for ect... Engine problems? The bike has had two owners and has 2100 miles on it. Larger tank, new sprockets, and a few other goodies. How will this be reliability, is there issues with carburation vrs fuel injection? anything else I should be concerned about? I have also looked at a 2010 TE 310 but it's a lot more cash.

Thanks for your help,
Jimbop
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2007 TE510 is a good bike, really good bike. Lasts a long time. Carbs are a low tech devices and little to go wrong with them that a good cleaning won't fix if that is ever needed.
 
i had the 510 for 3yrs and the only the only thing i had to replace was the starter clutch, always started and never let me down good solid bike A+
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big--d said:
i had the 510 for 3yrs and the only the only thing i had to replace was the starter clutch, always started and never let me down good solid bike A+:thumbsup:
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For me it was the starter clutch and the Alexon radiators (replaced with Toyo). Coming up on 7500 miles on my 07 TE450 and the valves haven't had to be adjusted yet.
 
A guy I ride with has had his 510 since '07 and it's been a great bike with no issues.
 
Had an 06 and it was a great bike, no issues at all. Bought a run out 06 450 as the 510 was a bit much for me in the tight. For limited highway use and open trail/desrets it was a champion and really kicked the comparable KTM 525 of the time. It was just so dependable with great traction.
 
bang on the money there, on open trails and fire roads its in a class of its own, the "orange bucket brigade" have nothing that can touch it.!!! but ghte right its a bit of a handfull in the tight stuff after a while.
 
I have ridden the 06TE450 and have an 09TE450. Both are great. The 07TE510 you are looking at has a great carb: Keihin FCR41. There was never a really a "problem" with carbs that Efi really fixxes, short of being more adaptive to elevation and temps. Efi tuning is often necessary and there is a learning curve if you already know jetting. The 07 should be a great bike. 2000 miles is nothing. Buy it!:thumbsup:

I always say when there is a comparison between the reliability of efi and carbs: the delivery of fuel by "vacume and gravity will always be more reliable than anything that relies on electricity".
 
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