• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC Small trials tire on a 150

Picklito

Picklito

Husqvarna
Pro Class
We've all noticed that the 150's come with the same size rear tire as the 250/300. It's too big. So I started searching for a smaller trials tire and came across the Shinko 241. It's available as 3.00, 3.50, 4.00 -18. I ordered a 3.50-18, sight unseen, from Dan at MotoXotica (15 minutes from me). Was a little concerned when I first saw it. Unmounted... looked like a minibike tire. But once installed it looked perfect on the 150. First ride I used an STI 2mm tube at 6psi and went out and did 50 uglies. Conclusion: This was a good move. I think most of the improvement came from the smaller size. The tire, itself, works about like every other trials tire I've owned: Incredible compliance and grip, but a little loss of control on downhill braking. Would love to see some of you try this and post your opinion.

Oh - I also temporarily ran a 100/100-18 Pirelli knobby when the original Dunlop wore out, as I hadn't yet found this Shinko. That was an improvement over the stock tire, too. So, ya, the smaller size helps the 150, so whatever you choose try a size smaller than the stocker and see what you think

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Stock tire on a TE-150 is a 110-100x18 at 26" in height. My Shinko is a 100-90x18 at 24 and 3/4" in height. I lowered my front forks till I get taller rear tire. Haven't ridden it yet too see how it works. Gramps
 
My 150 came with a 2.15x19 rim from the PO. I got an 2.15x18 to install, but haven't because 100/90-19 with Tubliss work great. I thought about trying a 110 but haven't yet and can't believe they came with a 120 stock.
 
buttstock said:
Stock tire on a TE-150 is a 110-100x18 at 26" in height. My Shinko is a 100-90x18 at 24 and 3/4" in height. I lowered my front forks till I get taller rear tire. Haven't ridden it yet too see how it works. Gramps
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Got 2 rides on Shinko Trails Tyre, works great, as usual! Gramps
 
I prefer the Shinko trials over the Michelin - the Michelin is marginally softer and hooks marginally better, but the Shinko has a rounder profile and corners much better.
 
Im running a Motoz hybrid extreme on both the Husky & the yamaha wr200, like a trials tyre but with a longer knobbly, excellent tyre as an all rounder
 
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