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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My 1st thumper is also my 1st Husky!

twostrokin said:
Ride Report:
A little background on me; last 3 bikes were a 05 YZ 250, 09 250 XC, and 11 150/200 SX(I converted it to a 200 at about 75 hours). B class enduro/harescrambles. The last 4 stroke I owned was a TTR-125(I was 13 haha). The conditions ranged from slick as ice mud(infamous caliche clay) to perfect in the more loamy/sandy sections of the park.

Pros: Very narrow bike, easy to pinch with your knees. This bike will flat out corner. It corners hands down better than my 200. Just point, lean, and twist the throttle. This goes for berms, ruts, or flat corners. I can't stress that enough about the bike. The controls are super roomy giving you plenty of space to get high on the tank. Brakes are the same as the KTM, so they're awesome(back brake was almost too strong in the muddy conditions, I need to adjust it's position so I'm finessing it more than stomping it). The power was good, especially coming from the 200. It had plenty of bottom end snap to lift the front end over obstacles. Roll on wheelies in 4th gear all day. Didn't get anywhere to hit 5th gear. I'm not sure how to exactly describe the suspension, I've got my Factory Connection tuned 200 suspension spot on for trail debris particularly at speed. The Husky boingers worked pretty good on most square edges, it soaked up whoops and roots/rocks pretty good. I need to take a couple of clicks of rebound out of the shock for log crossings. I'm going to give it more time to break in before I give my final assessment on the suspension. But for now it's good.


Cons: This is about the hardest seat I've ever sat on. I'll give it a few more rides to see if it breaks in nicely. If not, new seat foam will be on the way ASAP. The kickstand isn't the best, KTM's are better. I have to turn the EFI off to kill the bike, then turn it back on again to start the bike back up. That's more just a nuisance than a real complaint. Those are the only real cons I've got right now, I'll update this as needed.

I keep trying to find mods that I can do to the bike but it doesn't really need any. Just slap some handguards on and ride. In the future I may add a pipe and/or JD Tuner for the EFI but for now I don't see a need.

I'd actually never even ridden a Husky before I bought this one but the price was right so I took a shot, and I'm glad I did!


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I just picked one of these up the other day. I haven't gotten to ride it yet but will soon. However, it doesn't want to start very well, not sure why. But what came loose or did you have to tighten the most, also any ideas on break in period or how to break it in correctly? Ive had used bikes or even my new quad i had awhile back i didn't really have to "break in". I rode it hard straight outta the box and it ran fine for me. so im wandering is the txc going to be that way, or should i excersize more caution.
 
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