• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 husky 511 smr owner

SMR 511 here. Not a bike for commuting IMO, runs warm in traffic, and it a tad jerky at low throttle openings. Give it an open or twisty road and it's awesome. If your mainly commuting day in day out, get the DRZ, or even better, find a cheap used DRZ and get the SMR for weekends and track days :P

Also if you chip/tune it and put a pipe on it you reduce the service intervals markedly in regards to warranty.
 
yeah mate - service - 1000km, then 6000km, then 11000 full with rebuild, I have a smr511 -love it.
 
I did my first service at 500k's, second at 1700ks and i just booked in for another at 3000k. Probably servicing it a bit short but my mate has a bike shop and he looks after me.

Question, I was riding to work yesterday and dead smack on 3000k's the bike stalled (switched off), I rolled off the road, luckily was in slow sydney traffic. The display read "Fail" or "Failed". I turned the ignition off and was able to start the bike again with no errors or issues. Has anyone seen this before? Curious if the computer is supposed to be reset when the bike gets serviced and my mechanic is missing this?. Cheers.
 
Thats weird. I've doe 4000K on my 449 and had no issue. The only service mine has had at the dealer was the 1000K service. I don't reset anything after an oil change. Mine has flashed FAIL a couple of times but not stalled out, its usually gone the next time I start up.

What exhaust are you running? Is it on Race Map 2?
 
Question, I was riding to work yesterday and dead smack on 3000k's the bike stalled (switched off), I rolled off the road, luckily was in slow sydney traffic. The display read "Fail" or "Failed". I turned the ignition off and was able to start the bike again with no errors or issues. Has anyone seen this before? Curious if the computer is supposed to be reset when the bike gets serviced and my mechanic is missing this?.
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Mine did this the other day. I stalled and after restart I got the FAIL message. Bike kept running so I kept riding it. I tried shutting off and restarting but still got the FAIL message. Eventually it went away. Go figure.
 
Mine used to do the 'fail' alot when it stalled. If you quickly restart it the Throttle positioning sensor (TPS) doesn't have time to reset. Appreciate its not always possible to do (especially in traffic!) but you need to turn the ignition off for around 20 secs, turn it back on and wait another 20 secs before starting.
As the motor loosens up it is important to increase the tick over level, as this does cause stalling and difficulty starting first time from cold.

I saw the earlier scans of the service book, my mechanic advises there is a typo and the major replacements (valves) should be a 10k not 1k.
However by that time most bikes will be out of warranty anyway and riders will probably carry on following some checks
 
Cheers for the info Doug!! very helpful. I'm running the stock pipe (race map 2), would love an akro but not in the budget at the moment.
I just picked the bike up this morning after getting an oil change and dropping from the standard 43 tooth back sprocket to a 40 tooth.
I must say its settled the bike down loads and made it a lot easier to ride in slower traffic, I find where i was shifting between first and second i can now just cruise in first gear. Also gave it a little and now comfortably sits up around 90/100k's without revving too hard. It's probably not the best combo of gearing and I have seen a few post where guys mess around with the front sprocket and don’t drop as many teeth on the back. Still plenty of poke and can pop it up on the back wheel easy which is good.
 
Danfrax, I've put the standard SMR511 gearing on Gearing Commander, this allows you to play around with sprockets sizes before buying/fitting.
http://www.gearingcommander.com/
Just enter Husqvarna SM R511 in the pull downs and the the standard gearing will appear, from there you can adjust front/rear sprockets and it will tell you speed per gear ect....
 
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