• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 TE's and the road....revs?

H

husky123

Husqvarna
A Class
Hey guys. Right now I'm riding Red after getting rid of my '05 TE450 (which I loved). I already have a 650R and L for dual sporting but the new TE's really got me thinking of coming back! Damn Husky's just look soooo good.

Anywho's I'm trying to get a feel for how they'd be on the street (what little time they'd see anyway). Can anyone tell me what the 450 or 510 would be spinning (rpm wise) at say...60 mph? AND is the stock gearing any good for offroad stuff, especially east coast type stuff? Thanks for your thoughts.

Lee
"husky123"
 
Not sure what the revs are exactly, but the 08 TE450 has treated me right on the trails as well as on the street. If you want a do all bike to include long road rides and highway usage, the 450 will show limitations. I can't speak from experience for the 510, but sometimes think I should have gone with that to open up my road speed & comfort. Then I usually decide I will get a 610 so I have the two perfect choices for what I feel like doing on a given day.
 
DualSportArmory;592 said:
Hey guys. Right now I'm riding Red after getting rid of my '05 TE450 (which I loved). I already have a 650R and L for dual sporting but the new TE's really got me thinking of coming back! Damn Husky's just look soooo good.

Anywho's I'm trying to get a feel for how they'd be on the street (what little time they'd see anyway). Can anyone tell me what the 450 or 510 would be spinning (rpm wise) at say...60 mph? AND is the stock gearing any good for offroad stuff, especially east coast type stuff? Thanks for your thoughts.

Lee
"husky123"
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The beast will give you a pretty good buzz (engine vibe) on the road at those RPM's (5-6K) with stock gearing and you'll probably want to throw some weight opposite the rimlocks to tame the wheel hop that is noticeable from about 50+. Should be no problem doing it though if it's short hops. I'm planning on riding mine 6 miles each way to/from work with max speeds of 50 mph. Probably go through the knobs pretty quick but that's ok, they'll make more! Another noticeable "feature" on asphalt is the plank of a seat. It just seems to magnify every vibe in the bike right up through the butt. Don't really notice any of the above things once off the road and in the sh$t. Don't know about "East Coast" ride-ability, but someone here will be able to. HTH
 
I know this is an old thread but thought I'd post my results.
As indicated by trail tech vapor with speedo and tachometer readout

Gearing 16/43 stock 21 front 18in rear
2005 te450
70mph=6440 rpm
65mph=6000 rpm
 
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