• 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.

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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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New 310's

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mx21

Husqvarna
I am thinking of getting a new Husky soon and had some questions. For the past 5 years I have been racing and riding a YZ250 two stroke. I race mostly motocross but race a handful of WORCS/Grand Prix races throughout the year. I was really leaning towards a KTM 350xc but the price keeps scaring me away. Then I came across a dealer selling some 2013 310s TXC/TE for a great price.

How does the 310 do for a motocross bike? I don't care about racing bigger bikes on it, I have been racing the open/450 class with a 250 and 125 for fun lately.

What are the differences between the TXC and TE? Does the TE just have more plugged up SMOG crap thats easy to pull off to match the TXC? Suspension/valving?

Just for comparisons sakes if you could get the the TXC with a plate if you just added lights would that be easier or harder than "unplugging" the TE?

I am pretty much looking for a bike that can do everything well-ish. I have a VOR 503 with a plate that I use for Dual Sport, but I usually just ride from trail to trail and the bike is pretty big/heavy to push hard on trails, plus parts are harder and harder to get for it.

With KTM owning Husky will parts and service be easier/harder/same for the previous non ktm models?

I know thats a lot of questions thanks in advance for anyones help. :)
 
My te 310 was plugged up so bad it wouldn t run right , once I had the powerup done its a completely diffenent bike runs awesome , as far as racing I have never raced wish I could help you there.
 
the suspension on the 13 txc310r is as good as is on any motorcycle - and likely what you are already accustomed to from your yz250 (KYB closed cartridge forks - kyb shock)

The TXC will be the better MX bike because the forks, IMO.

these forks also can be a bit harsher if just putting along on a bumpy trail ride.
 
mx21 said:
Do you know what the difference is between them. Do they have different springs/valving?
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TE used open cartridge KYB forks and the TXC uses more later model MX closed cartridge forks, both use the same KYB shock (new ones anyway). Good thing is that any of the top suspension tuners are familiar with these components and get you dialed, I would opt for the TXC, less $$ more race ready out of the box. (these x-lite series bike have 3 world enduro championships on them)Ive raced both my stripped down TE310 and my TXC310R, both are good racers when set up well for racing,,,or riding hard. My 2011 TE has a full raceTech gold valve treatment with addition ZipTy valve work inside, my 13 TXC-R has a full ZipTy racing treatment. for hardcore enduro the open cartridge forks on the TE are alittle more plush on HSCD but the 13 forks are better suited for slamming things hard and riding aggro.

my spring rates are up and up .48s and 6.4 kg/mm for my 208 weight.
 
It's also the opinion of the factory that built it. That being said, with short gearing and ultra anal maintenance coupled with not letting the engine live up near the rev limiter, the 310 could live life as a dual sport. With that setup there will be a trade off for tight trail performance due to the close transmission ratio. YMMV
 
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