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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

new 2012 TE511

Finally got my FMF powercore & quietcore insert. We are covered up with snow here, but that dude is going on
Tomorrow. Still waiting for seat concepts delivery, and a wolfman peak tail bag. Guess it's time to start getting
Ready for some power commander action!
 
Pipe installed. Pretty straight forward install. The stock one has better fit and finish, and looks better
In my opinion. Of course pretty is as pretty does. FMF is WAY lighter. Now to the key switch, the bag,
and PCV shopping.
 
I've ripped off two license plate holders and one set of rear turn signals. Can someone give me some info and pics on mods to the license plate holder and/or the rear turn signals relocation? Thanks
 
I have not addressed this yet but it is on my list. I have been pouring over postings getting information, and there
Are alot of options. One I am thinking about is a taillight that functions as turn signals, brake light,and license holder
Mounted on rear fender and all the "stuff" below the fender removed. They are on eBay and I did see a post on here
Referring to it. Looks similar to the fender eliminator on my 1200S bandit. I will look around again, if you use
The search on here you'll probably find it.
 
Installed the sicass ignition switch. Nice piece, removed 1 bolt in the dash, 4 fender bolts, used a Drexel
To size ignition the hole. Nice connectors, works great. Also put a wolfman peak tailback on my little luggage
Rack. (small hard plastic from a scooter shop.)
 
Since this bike will be used for hare scrambles, tight woods riding, I think I am going to have to take the suspension
Parts to halls and get the proper springs for my weight, and a lowering. Thinking an 1" or 1 1/2. It really isn't bad
Now but being 5'9 and 31" inseam, I know lower is better in the rough stuff. Hate to spend my bling/ hop up money
On it, but probably be the most important. Any other short woods riders have any thoughts on the 1" or 1/2" lower?
 
Went to halls today to let them shorten my suspension and give me new springs. Very knowledgeable, and
Showed me I did not need new springs, just lowered. Saving me some real money! Could have sold me parts,
I did not need, I have some respect for those guys. Got some XF+ so Mr. Tinken would be happy, and tried to
buy that cool uptite skid plate, but they were out of the one for my bike. Came home and tried uptites
Web site to see if he had it, but could not view pics on Mac or windows. XF plus, 15 degrees cooler really?
 
James,
Could you expand on how the kind folks at Halls lowered your bike?
Being an inseam challenged rider myself, knowing those lowering tricks are helpful.
Thanks Rich
 
Husky19 said:
I've ripped off two license plate holders and one set of rear turn signals. Can someone give me some info and pics on mods to the license plate holder and/or the rear turn signals relocation? Thanks
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Rich, what they do is disassemble the forks and rear shock. They use spacers to equally lower them so you still have
the same chassis set. The amount lowered cost you ground clearance and suspension travel. The benefit for me is
Being able to maintain control in the woods and in muddy rough conditions. I don't do motocross (big air) so this lowering
Is a benefit to me. The cost is around 400.00. Well worth it to me. A lot of enduro guys do an inch. The suspension
Guy recommended 1.5 for me. I think he's right. I will post back after testing. For me it is at least as important as
Pipes, tuners etc...to do well in a hare scrambles or TT this will allow me better handling, and control.
 
Tinken I really like your turn signal, plate mount. Simple, effective, and looks good too. What did you do in front...?
Got me some XF coolant, looking forward to trying it.
 
James Patton said:
Tinken I really like your turn signal, plate mount. Simple, effective, and looks good too. What did you do in front...?
Got me some XF coolant, looking forward to trying it.
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Full leds, front and rear. The blinkers from CycleGear have internal resistors. Rear blinkers have aluminum bases. I drilled through the circuit board and through the base, then added 8/32" bolts/loctite for a more secure attachment.


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James Patton said:
Rich, what they do is disassemble the forks and rear shock. They use spacers to equally lower them so you still have
the same chassis set. The amount lowered cost you ground clearance and suspension travel. The benefit for me is
Being able to maintain control in the woods and in muddy rough conditions. I don't do motocross (big air) so this lowering
Is a benefit to me. The cost is around 400.00. Well worth it to me. A lot of enduro guys do an inch. The suspension
Guy recommended 1.5 for me. I think he's right. I will post back after testing. For me it is at least as important as
Pipes, tuners etc...to do well in a hare scrambles or TT this will allow me better handling, and control.
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Wow. Lowered 38mm? How much shock travel do you have left?

Ty setup my suspension and I have a 4mm lowering spacer inside my rear shock. But my total shock travel is now increased by approximately 20mm. I run 100mm of race sag for hard pack and 115mm for loam, sand and dunes. My forks are firmer than TXC suspension, with the geometry reset to add higher stability and ground clearance. 60+mph G-outs are no problem, Flexx bars absorb small impacts such as rocks, wash-boarded roads and vibrations.
 
Yep. Horses for courses. TT tracks here have only one or two small jumps. There is a reason flat track and TT bike
usually are short on suspension. Riding heavy tight woods, it is imperative for me to be able to use my feet at times.
At your height I know you have no such problem. It is common to lower an inch on enduro bikes. I have been out
West and the riding is surely different, also my setup would not work well for motocross. The amount of travel
left, if adjusted properly function great. 10.5 is what I will have, and I remember riding motocross and everything
Else with less. Like I said horses for courses...also I am 155# you are a MUCH bigger guy, so I would think 1.5 less
With 150 less weight might work pretty well,,,we will see.
 
Right you are, I wasn't arguing the point, merely just suprised. You can add a hardened bump stop to your shock that is much shorter to gain back some of your precious travel. The stock bump stop is grossly wasteful.

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That is a great idea! I will check into that. Tinken you know how a lot of us short guys are, if I am in mud or an incline
Sideways or deep ruts, I tip over till my feet hit. I is hard for us midgets,lol!
At 57, I am like Popeye, I yam what yam and that's all that I am....so I really had to lower it.
I am going to do my turn signals like yours, that is the cleanest I have seen.
Also want to say I have been reading all your post on here and they are extremely informative and helpful, thank you!
 
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