• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Run In questions 2014 TE310R

Boogie said:
In Australia, the 250r and 310r have exactly the same seat height. The lowered 250 was only in the US.
However... I had my 250r lowered and set it up for my girlfriend. It was lowered 50mm internally. No lowering link was used. It's all reversible.
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Hi, do you have any picture of the lowered bike?
 
Bikesvinger said:
Hi, do you have any picture of the lowered bike?
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I have a pic of mine lowered. When I got my 310 a month ago it had 28 kilometers on it I guess the first owner got the bike had it lowered rode it for an hour and traded it in on a Husaberg!? I raised it back up to stock..its just spacers so the shocks wont extend all the way but some guys also cut the front springs down like mine were!
 

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Thanks, How much was it lowered? Did you ride it when it was lowered? If so, any negative effect beside limited ground clearance.
 
I didn't ride it that way I like bikes OEM and adapt to the bike rather than alter the geometry of the bike. I think it was 2.5 inches all the way around. I ride with a neighbor buddy that has a KTM lowered a fair bit and it seems off for me. I do a lot of stunts and ride fairly hard when I ride so I like to use the full travel of the forks and shocks helps you get over obstacles easier etc. BUT I could see how a beginner or novice rider could benefit from a lowered bike for a few years of learning than raise it back up or if you spend all your hours on the street and or are very vertically challenged. LOL NO offense to the shorts out there I'm only 5,10 and barely tip-toe on all my bikes.
 
Alternatively you could go with REALLY soft springs front and rear which would effectively lower the bike in the suspension travel at least that way you would still have all the travel to use if needed!? :)
 
I intendent to lower mine 2 inches. I hope it will behave properly. It will be full spring lenghts, we are just moving the internal spring stops. Age 66 and 5,7 Its a must.
 
Good for you one of my main riding buddies is 64 and he rides like crazy loves enduro and single track.. he inspires me!
 
56.5 yrs, 5' 4" or 162.56 cm here :eek: (Duct tape wooden blocks to toes of boots?)


Hope to see pics of a TE250R riding in beautiful Sweden! :thumbsup:
 
Bikesvinger said:
Thanks, How much was it lowered? Did you ride it when it was lowered? If so, any negative effect beside limited ground clearance.
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I sometimes swap with my girl and ride her 250R. First thing I look for are corners... the lowered bike loves them.
There are some negatives: ground clearance, feet are closer to the ground, less high speed stability, less suspension travel
The positives will outweigh the negatives for you. The lower centre of gravity and different geometry enhance how the bike will corner. It feels lighter. I often giggle when I ride the 250r through twisty tracks even though I am too big and heavy for it.

The suspension guy that did our bike, lowered the rear 50mm and the front 45mm with the forks slid up in the clamps 5mm. He did this so we can just slide the forks down in the clamps if it feels too unstable at speed.

Do it.
 
Boogie, Do you have a Picture of the lowered bike? I would be nice to see how it looks when it is lowered the same as I intend to do.
Have you cut the kick stand?
 
Yes, the kickstand needs to be cut and welded. Ours wasn't shortened enough and barely stands the bike up... It has fallen over a few times.

I'll look for a picture later today.
 
Bikesvinger said:
Boogie, Do you have a Picture of the lowered bike? I would be nice to see how it looks when it is lowered the same as I intend to do.
Have you cut the kick stand?
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I had a look for pics but the ones I have don't illustrate the lowered bike well. Its on the stand and photos are on an angle so its had to tell its been lowered at all.

Here is one from the net of a te250 lowered approx 50mm. Mine looks like this from the side.
here is some info on this bike below: http://www.dirtbikemagazine.com/ME2...0&tier=3&nid=A8815CD64C82414CB19143C72FD81E1C

Hope that helps

te250 low.jpg
 
Do tell, I was thinking the wood idea Danny mentioned would suffice. I have softened the suspension on mine some. So now the kickstand is worse than stock.
 
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