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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

MY13 TC449

Great looking bike. I really want to try a TC version some day. The demo one at the NW gathering stripped the shifter before i got to try it.
 
Nice. Awefull track conditions though. Lol little camera-throttle at 1:45 he's going to blow off the track.
 
Motosportz said:
Great looking bike. I really want to try a TC version some day. The demo one at the NW gathering stripped the shifter before i got to try it.
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I rode it quite a bit and was surprised that it was not really any different than my TXC. It had a bit more down low. I was expecting a much stronger and quicker pull off the bottom.
 
Personally I think they should stick with the program as we all seem to love out 449/511 bikes even if they were to just sell the piles of motors they had laying around. Then build a purpose built MXer if needed which could be used for racing off road too. I hate to see this platform go. I trade off with the guys with new KTMs and find it stands the test very well.
 
Motosportz said:
Personally I think they should stick with the program as we all seem to love out 449/511 bikes even if they were to just sell the piles of motors they had laying around. Then build a purpose built MXer if needed which could be used for racing off road too. I hate to see this platform go. I trade off with the guys with new KTMs and find it stands the test very well.
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I wouldnt be surprised to see them create some separation between the TE and the TC lines. Whether that justifies two platforms is a tough call.
 
Russ Henry said:
I rode it quite a bit and was surprised that it was not really any different than my TXC. It had a bit more down low. I was expecting a much stronger and quicker pull off the bottom.
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I rode it a bit too, and didnt think it was much different then my TXC511, maybe a bit less torqey, quicker throttle response, but the handling felt very similar as did the power. I suspect the difference might come out on a MX track.
 
oregonsage said:
I wouldnt be surprised to see them create some separation between the TE and the TC lines. Whether that justifies two platforms is a tough call.
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This makes a LOT of sense. The current platform seems to be loved in the gnarly offroad scene as well as being a tough, reliable, compatent DS platform. They are already very close with the xlite platform, seems like a purpose-built MXer is just a few tweaks away?
 
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