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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Love this Bike

I have a 2012 TE250 and think it is a great trail bike. It has the complete power up mod, 12 port fuel injector, TXC ECU, 12 tooth sprocket in front, 50 rear, Barkbuster hand guards, and Motoz Tractionator tires. I'm short, 5'5" so I have the 1" Kouba link installed (dropped the bike about a half inch) and I cut about a half inch of foam from the seat. I am impressed with this bike and how it handles.
 
hgearle said:
I'm short, 5'5" so I have the 1" Kouba link installed (dropped the bike about a half inch) and I cut about a half inch of foam from the seat. I am impressed with this bike and how it handles.
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You should feel the handling of a TE250 that is lowered 50mm. My 310 is impressive but the low 250 is ridiculously good in corners.
 
hgearle said:
I have a 2012 TE250 and think it is a great trail bike. It has the complete power up mod, 12 port fuel injector, TXC ECU, 12 tooth sprocket in front, 50 rear, Barkbuster hand guards, and Motoz Tractionator tires. I'm short, 5'5" so I have the 1" Kouba link installed (dropped the bike about a half inch) and I cut about a half inch of foam from the seat. I am impressed with this bike and how it handles.
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I just installed the link on my 13 TXC310. I also shaved the seat, much better. Where did you set your sag? The instructions said 3.25-3.50 inches not 4. Isnt this defeating the purpose of the link?
 
Mike Rotella said:
I just installed the link on my 13 TXC310. I also shaved the seat, much better. Where did you set your sag? The instructions said 3.25-3.50 inches not 4. Isnt this defeating the purpose of the link?
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I never even knew their was a link for the 310. How much was the link?
 
Hi Connor, It was $150 from Kouba. It works good. Dont listen to all these guys saying it screws up the bike, it doesnt.
 
Mike Rotella said:
Hi Connor, It was $150 from Kouba. It works good. Dont listen to all these guys saying it screws up the bike, it doesnt.
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I wouldn't mine lowering mine a little but I feel the ground clearance on this bike is already pretty low and we ride a lot of rocks around here and id be worried of the frame dragging or getting hung up at times. Also my suspension has already been revalved and set up.
 
Mike Rotella said:
Then just trim the seat a little. Youre only gonna get about a half inch with the link
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I did that on my yz250 but I don't think I will ever do that again. It promots bad habits. It makes it harder to get up on the tank in turns and it makes you want to drop your elbows. However, it does help you touch. I think the way to go is lower it while you are having your suspension tuned. I was going to do that but I decided against it and that I would just try to get used to the bike. I am 5'8", and if i was much shorter I'd probably want this bike lowered because you all are right, the thing sits way high. Even higher than my friends ktm's. Kinda gives the bike a top heavy feeling.
 
Connor said:
I did that on my yz250 but I don't think I will ever do that again. It promots bad habits. It makes it harder to get up on the tank in turns and it makes you want to drop your elbows. However, it does help you touch. I think the way to go is lower it while you are having your suspension tuned. I was going to do that but I decided against it and that I would just try to get used to the bike. I am 5'8", and if i was much shorter I'd probably want this bike lowered because you all are right, the thing sits way high. Even higher than my friends ktm's. Kinda gives the bike a top heavy feeling.
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I'm also 5'8" and when I'm riding I'm fine, but when I stop on the trail I look like I'm about to fall over, much better lowered. The bike is way too tall, and that flat bench seat is nuts. I like a little curve in them. That must be from being raised on XR's, by far the greatest bike ever made.
 
Hey Guys Loving my 2010 TE 250. I bought it second hand with low miles this season. Loving this bike, I have the Lower link as well , I am also approx. 5'5". So I understand the whole vertically challenged thing. lol Anyhow the link does work really really good. It softens the suspension a bit and that helps for northeast rocks and roots.
 
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