• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

FE/FC Re-thinking Thumpers

nsrrider

nsrrider

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm posting this in the 4 stroke section because I'm not even sure I could find the 2 stroke forum....never been there. Let me me preface this post by saying I'm 62 years old, been dirt riding over 50 years and ride aggressively. I just sold my slant motor Berg 450 and am awaiting arrival of a '17 FE 450. I have been riding 4 strokes exclusively all that time and was one of those fools in 70's that kept trying to make Honda XL's competitive. But through the decades, thumpers got better and better. Every once in a while I would ride a buddy's 2 stroke and never cared for them...just didn't connect.
This weekend I rode a new TX300 Husky and fell head over heels in love. Everything I hated about smokers has been remedied. The new air fork seemed amazing, the really low weight of the bike, lazer-like steering, perfect suspension for the woods, big, immediate power (everywhere) in the range, ultra smooth motor--just an amazing motorcycle. Maybe it didn't sound like a motorcycle I would like, I can't deny I was completely seduced by it.
 
You are not alone. Riding buddy of mine was anti-smoker forever. His experience came from late 80s early 90s 250s and 500s and just hated the way they ran. 2 years ago I talked him into a Ktm demo day ride. He threw a leg over a 300xc-w and that was it, 2 days later he was loading it up in his truck.
 
I have also been a 4 stroke guy and hated everything about 2 stroke. 3 months ago I ended up getting a deal I could not pass up on a 2015 TE250. As soon as I got it I bought an oversized tank to deal with any range issues, and a FMF quiet exhaust can. I run Amsoil Sabre at 80:1, and I am loving the bike.

It has power all over the place. Even though on paper it does not weigh that much less than my TXC310 did, it certainly feels much lighter.
With the 4.1 tank on (which only takes minutes to switch over to) I can go 120+ miles, and after warming up, there is next to no smoke coming out of the pipe.
I have just over 45 hours and 1000miles on this set up and it has been fantastic. I normally ride with the stock tank at 2.9, but do occasionally slap on the larger tank like on Saturday when I knew I was going 80 plus miles.

Right now, with the power valve set where it is, I can do somewhere between 50 and 55 on the road sections without really getting on the pipe, and I have had the bike up to 80 (on stock gearing). I did not think that I would ever make the switch, but man has it been good.
 
NH-JP said:
I have also been a 4 stroke guy and hated everything about 2 stroke. 3 months ago I ended up getting a deal I could not pass up on a 2015 TE250. As soon as I got it I bought an oversized tank to deal with any range issues, and a FMF quiet exhaust can. I run Amsoil Sabre at 80:1, and I am loving the bike.

It has power all over the place. Even though on paper it does not weigh that much less than my TXC310 did, it certainly feels much lighter.
With the 4.1 tank on (which only takes minutes to switch over to) I can go 120+ miles, and after warming up, there is next to no smoke coming out of the pipe.
I have just over 45 hours and 1000miles on this set up and it has been fantastic. I normally ride with the stock tank at 2.9, but do occasionally slap on the larger tank like on Saturday when I knew I was going 80 plus miles.

Right now, with the power valve set where it is, I can do somewhere between 50 and 55 on the road sections without really getting on the pipe, and I have had the bike up to 80 (on stock gearing). I did not think that I would ever make the switch, but man has it been good.
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I grew up riding two strokes. I have owned a few four strokes over the years, but even the latest batch of them don't impress me. Sure, I'll buy one that can be plated for the street, but two strokes have always been my choice for trail riding and racing. I love the low center of gravity, the lighter weight, the lack of annoying engine braking, the way you can hear other bikes coming up from the other direction if you are riding in tight trails with limited visibility (especially if those other bikes are four strokes!), the snappy, smooth and seamless power delivery, the ease of kick starting them (although, I am at the age where I would really love to a magic button on darn near anything I ride), and how much more easily and inexepensive they are to repair than a four stroke.:love:
 
the engine braking and cost/ease of maintenance/repairs is a big turn off for me. just keep cleaning the air filter on that smoker and have it jetted right, it will live a good while.
 
I rode 2strokes pretty much my entire life with the exception of a few short lived Craigslist trades. My reason for switching was simply I needed a change. I had been on 250 2strokes for almost 10years and I was just kind of burnt out on them. My 350 was a refreshing change. Do I miss $8 5min oil changes and pretty much zero motor maintenance? YES! Will my next bike be a 2stroke? Probably.
 
There are several other brands that offer low engine breaking if that's the real issue holding you back. Also some brands do offer lightweight 4t that feel like a 2t when riding. 4t of today are really reliable and need very little $$ and time to keep running. Things that kill a 4t is dirt in the motor via either air or fuel. Keep this area clean and you can see 300hrs easily on these bigger bore motors.
 
Brapman629 said:
I rode 2strokes pretty much my entire life with the exception of a few short lived Craigslist trades. My reason for switching was simply I needed a change. I had been on 250 2strokes for almost 10years and I was just kind of burnt out on them. My 350 was a refreshing change. Do I miss $8 5min oil changes and pretty much zero motor maintenance? YES! Will my next bike be a 2stroke? Probably.
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$8 oil change? That's 2 oil changes on my YZ125 with Rotella T-6

I've considered riding a 4 stroke every time I see how well it works for my son when he smokes me on his 450. Then I get on his 450 and love it for about 20 min until my old man ass is dragging and my tongue is hanging..
 
If I had to make a change today from my yz450 I would buy the 300 all day long. 58ish hp low maintenance costs smooth power low end grunt...now im drooling
 
Even though I raced 2 strokes, in the 70's, I would rather have been trying to race a modded XR Honda. I just loved those bikes and was faster on them than I should have been. Fast forward many years (of not riding), and you couldn't pay me to race a modern 4 stroke. Although I rode a YZF250 for the first time yesterday, and see the attraction - it was easy to go fast, the owner admitted to me that he's no faster on it than his YZ144, and it's not nearly as much fun to ride.

I love my CR150 and plan to keep it for a long time.
 
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