• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Seat for '14 TE511

TomGlander

TomGlander

Husqvarna
AA Class
New here. Just got 2014 TE 511. Not sure how much it differs from 2012 or '13. But anyway, I've ordered the Seat Concepts seat. Expecting it to arrive maybe today. I will post pics of the installation. I've removed the old cover, down to the foam. Will remove the foam after the new cover and foam arrive. Then will install.

After telephoning and talking to the guys at Seat Concepts, sounds like a good product. Many others have said they really like theirs, so I'm hoping for the same. Will let you know on this thread, and post photos as well.

Also, anyone knows if the TE 511 are pretty much the same from 2012 to 2014, it would be nice to know.
 
The seat arrived today. Packaged very nicely. Everything was in perfect condition. I removed the staples from the old cover, removed the cover and removed the foam. Then sprayed on some 3M spray glue at each end and in the middle. Then applied the new foam. The new cover went on real easy. I stapled at each end, then stretched the cover down the sides, and stapled. After all staples were in, I used an ice pick to punch a hole through the cover where the lock bolt goes through. It was very easy to do. Glad I had the pneumatic stapler. Made the job very easy and fast.

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Photos of the seat. Sorry, the pics I tried to post above didn't work, or moderator is holding, or something. Here's a new attempt:

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There are very well done. I'm going to check with them and see if they have one level softer foam. Otherwise, perfect setup. Way better than stock.
 
mtbdoc said:
The foam on these is a bit too firm for my taste, but it is better than stock.
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They have a softer foam in stock. You just have to ask for it. If you want, they'll sell you the foam alone, it'll run $100 I think. That's what they told me. I decided the "medium" foam was ok, that a hundred bucks could be better spent on something else. My butt got used to the medium foam anyway. It does tend to "break in" after a few hundred miles of riding. But yes, it's much better than stock no matter what density you get.
 
I want that cover, but would like the stock size foam. I am a small dude and find the stock seat fit me well....then I lowered it and messed it all up, so wondering if they could sell me a stock style foam shaved down 15mm or so with the cover? Do they do that kind of stuff?
 
TomGlander said:
Best thing to do is call them and talk to them. They'll answer all your questions.
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Hi, new to the forum. About to get a 2011 SMS 630. Way too tall for me so looking for seat lowering options. I can talk to Seat Concepts, but do you or anyone else know of options? I don't want to play around with the suspension, I think...
 
David C. said:
Hi, new to the forum. About to get a 2011 SMS 630. Way too tall for me so looking for seat lowering options. I can talk to Seat Concepts, but do you or anyone else know of options? I don't want to play around with the suspension, I think...
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Welcome to the forum David. The SC padding doesn't actually raise the height of the bike, so it would be a good option no matter what. As for lowering things, the only way to do that is to mod the suspension. Or maybe go in for one of those surgeries where they add a couple of inches to your legs to make you taller. :D:eek:

Really though, these are tall bikes. I don't have any good solutions. Remove the seat entirely and the bike will still be too tall. Smaller diameter wheels? I did that with my supermoto setup, but it's still a tall bike.
 
Thanks for your reply. I talked to SC today - very nice, but no solutions. I actually thought I would pop the seat off and see if this beast is still too tall for me. It just seems like the bike I want, but alas, maybe it's not meant to be. My last Husky was a WR390...in '82!
 
Oh, that's a long time ago. Bikes were a lot closer to the ground then, weren't they? Or maybe I'm thinking of the '78 model year with upright shocks on each side of the rear tire. Does anyone remember such things? The best we could do was go crazy and lay them down, getting a couple more inches of travel. Good luck with your quest. The taller bike may not be in your future. Or maybe it will....
 
Hey Tom. I checked out the SMS630 today and loved it. I actually fit it quite well, or it me? I bought it! Now the fun begins. Do you know where on this forum I can find preferred service providers? I'm in Northern California, near SF. I saw that one of the admins on this site is in the Oakland area, but forget her name. I think she lowered her bike...
 
David C. said:
Hey Tom. I checked out the SMS630 today and loved it. I actually fit it quite well, or it me? I bought it! Now the fun begins. Do you know where on this forum I can find preferred service providers? I'm in Northern California, near SF. I saw that one of the admins on this site is in the Oakland area, but forget her name. I think she lowered her bike...
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Maybe these? http://www.cafehusky.com/pages/chsponsors/

Not sure about any admins. Glad you enjoy the bike and that you two fit. :applause:
 
TomGlander said:
Oh, that's a long time ago. Bikes were a lot closer to the ground then, weren't they? Or maybe I'm thinking of the '78 model year with upright shocks on each side of the rear tire. Does anyone remember such things? The best we could do was go crazy and lay them down, getting a couple more inches of travel. Good luck with your quest. The taller bike may not be in your future. Or maybe it will....
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of course we remember such things, we are on this forum! but if you sat on some of these 80s huskies, they were damn big too! unless you got the wr with an inch lower suspension front and back..80 and earlier husky were a lil smaller but some of the cr models still had some height. that used to be one of huskies draws, those swedes were tall and they made bikes for people that were a tad taller.
 
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