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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Need some help with a potenial new bike.

Only my two cents...
My Wife, a quad rider for years tried a DR250 for about a year. Once she realized a dual sport style would work for her we picked up a used upgraded 2010 TE310. She loves the TE310. A little tall for her but she makes it work. Bike is lighter and well balanced for her. Yes the TE bike is not as much of a lugger like the DR or CRF230 both I ridden. She still lugs the te around no issues except on steep hills from a dead start! Hey that’s where I come in to save the day :) If you plans are to run the Dual sports or Dirt only the TE is great bike. Yes the Bike will rip when you need it as well! Since California riding areas are shrinking a TE is not a bad choice and opens a very large riding area green stickers have no access to. I do not believe TC or TXC have the lowered version from the factory like the TE250. TE also requires Ca insurance to keep it registered like $80+ a year for simple coverage. Not bad idea just in case some steals the bike anyway! Then some the fixes and options outlined above could still apply.
 
We talked about it last night and I'm pretty sure the TE 310 is going to be our bike. That being said, we now are going to have to save a around $2,000 more. We try not to finance anything, that being said, it looks like by the time we actually get it we will just about be out of riding season. Guess I'll have to break it in for her in the hill behind my house when I go for my 0530 to 1030 rides before it gets hot. :)
 
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