• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Rider ,2013 TXC310

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Ed Ventura

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hey Guys,

New Cafe Husky member that has been lurking for a while. Got the itch for a new bike, was close to a KTM 250f, 350f but after some reading went with a husky. I have a few well setup Gas-Gas 2 strokes in the stable right now. I plane to keep at least one of them. I bought a berg fe450 a couple years ago and after 1 month swore every time I bought other than GG I regreted it, Time will tell if that is the case.

I try to make my bike choice and setup based on the enduros I ride, I ride the NETRA enduro series in New England, Typical day is slick , rocky , tight single track with lots of small elavation changes with no run up , and lots of what we call "cart roads". These cart roads are usully old trails that are 2 track to jeep wide. Faster but also very rocky.

I was set in stone to get a txc310, but at the last minute I was talking to Drew Smith and he thought the 250 makes a better New England Bike, Last years race bike was a GG 300 2 stroke. Around here everyone thinks the 300 is king, to me its best trait is its abillity to be in the wrong gear for an unsuspect hill, and its great traction on hills. Dont remeber pushing up a hill once last year. What I dont like, is it is just uneadlly strong in the midgange, and off idle when try be precise up and over a little obsticle it is very easy to surge and up with your front wheel on the wrong side of something. All in all I would rather a 200 over a 300 in the 2 stroke world. My fried Tony put it well, his suggest was they are probally pretty close. The TXC310 would be the safer bet, the 250 for some like me that likes to ride smaller bored bikes pinned the 250 would be great but gear selection would be critical. He also said think about wicth could be tuned more like the other if you did not like the power output.

At the last minute I went with the TXC 310. I figured if I want the lowend more like a 250 I could richen it a bit with a JD tuner if he makes one for the new bike. Jay at Roost Powersports in Thomaston CT gave me a great Deal, Check out his Facebook page for some discounts on new models through the end of Febuary

On to my questions. First tme Husky owner.
What needs locktight when I get it tuesday
What wears/chafe's that might needs some protection out of the box.
What Radiator Guards/ Braces work well with the factory fan
Most coverage skid plate.
Header Pipe Shield
Spark arrestor for the Stock Can

See ya on the trail
Ed
 
congrats and welcome to the red heads.

1 tip, when you remove your tank. Snap line off throttle body first. Lift it carefully to unplug fuel pump and to unsnap fuel line. I did all that and trying to unsnap my fuel line, broke the cheap plastic elbow. You will know what I mean when you do it. Get the aluminum zip ty elbow.

Grease everything with a bearing, even wheel bearings/ steering stem. Loc tite just about everything.

Use antiseize in swing arm adjusters. Also antiseize on tank bolts that bolt plastics on. Don't overtighten tank bolts or inserts in plastic tank can spin.

I went thru and used dielectric grease in all my electrical connections.

Put a good rpm/hour meter on. Make sure you wrap the wire around coil stick 4 to 5 times so it reads real good.

I came off a 2st 144/250 and this is best bike I have owned in long time.

Go ride er, have fun and give us ride report.
 
Ed you will love the 310...shane and i rode all the 2012s at the husky gathering..it was my favorite bike,huge difference between the 250 and 310,i really want one as well..husky bucks are a plus as well..your gonna race no matter what brand you ride..might as well earn free money!
 
If it doesn't come with a map switch button, get one. It changes the mapping to Husky speak "slippery mode". I have one on my 09 and it does make it more mellow on the bottom end, plus it pulls better down low IMO. I'm an old guy and I use it when I get tired or in 'duh' slippery conditions. Hope you like the bike. I love my 09. 9400 miles and it just keeps going.
 
Thanks for the tips guys,

Kevin, Nice to hear from you. It has been a while, You going to the snow run next weekend?

Hopefully I will have a ride report soon. We have our first enduro next weekend. Not sure if I will have the bike ready, Smart play would not even try and race last years bike, Sometimes I am not to smart. Gotta get my Husky Bucks. I wont have time to get the supension done so if I get a short ride on it and figure it is mangeble in the race I wiil probally race it. Rekluse should be here by friday

About the snow run, It is a required stamp on everyones man card. Great time, can be brutal and tough in deep mashed potato snow, or can be the fastest you will ever ride the same piece of trail if conditions are perfect (enough snow to fill the wholes between the rocks and very cold) On the perfect day it is like riding on velcro.
Who makes a good hour meter thae last more than 30 hours?

Ed
 
Couple more questions,

How loud is the stock can, I.E. will it pass a 96db sound check?
Bullet proof desighns radiator guards fit with Fan?

Thanks
ED
 
dartyppyt said:
congrats and welcome to the red heads.

1 tip, when you remove your tank. Snap line off throttle body first. Lift it carefully to unplug fuel pump and to unsnap fuel line. I did all that and trying to unsnap my fuel line, broke the cheap plastic elbow. You will know what I mean when you do it. Get the aluminum zip ty elbow.
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1st time taking the tank off and snapped the very fragile fuel elbow as well, who's brilliant design is this? How many of these get broken when the tank is removed? I know I can get an aftermarket aluminum elbow but my question is how come they don't come with it from the factory?????
 
Terrible design..Although I'm probably going to regret saying this, you can in fact get them on and off without breaking it, if you know ahead of time and are very careful.
 
oregonsage said:
I have no doubt it will pass 96 new. Very quiet.
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almost too quiet, I can't imagine whats going to happen when I try to start the bike on a dead engine start of a GP and I won't be able to tell if its running or not because I can't hear it
 
Drtrider82 said:
Terrible design..Although I'm probably going to regret saying this, you can in fact get them on and off without breaking it, if you know ahead of time and are very careful.
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got the Zip Ty aluminum, I told the guys at Gresham if they had any brains they would put some of these on the shelf...doubt they'll listen to me, I have called 3 times for parts with the same reply everytime "I will call you later (or tomorrow) with that information" I have yet to hear back from them once. Bills is the only place to deal with.
 
Nelyon said:
almost too quiet, I can't imagine whats going to happen when I try to start the bike on a dead engine start of a GP and I won't be able to tell if its running or not because I can't hear it
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I guess that means we can just leave them running and nobody will be the wiser :-)
 
Hey Ed,
Congrats on the bike! I bought my TC250 at Roost also. Good people and prices. Head on up to Mass with that thing in the spring. We've got some good some loops up here. Twist it! :thumbsup:
Adam
 
Some progress on the bike, Still have yet to ride it, Lots of Snow

BPD Radiator Guards Installed
 

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Rekluse Core EXP ready to install. Some love them some hate them , I have been using them from the origanal Zstart, Still have that clutch in a GG . This will be the first time for the adjustable slave cylinder for me.
 

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Fasst Flexx Bars, Not sure if they will stay or go back to one of my other bikes. I dont like how the front brake line hits my handguard mounts. See how they work out after a ride or two.
 

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Ed Ventura said:
Fasst Flexx Bars, Not sure if they will stay or go back to one of my other bikes. I dont like how the front brake line hits my handguard mounts. See how they work out after a ride or two.
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Wow , I have never seen a set of bars like that before.
 
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