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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Something in the Pennsylvania water makes me do things...

Ride report coming. Didn't have much time to do anything but a few "heat runs" around the yard today. I plan to do some serious coal region riding tomorrow and Sunday.
 
Motosportz said:
Great bikes in need of a wider trans and bigger tank (in the USA anyway)
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I gotta agree about the wider tranny. The thing needs an additional gear on wide trails and fire roads. On tight trails and MX tracks, the tranny is perfect (at least for me) :D .
 
I do mostly trails. My thoughts were focused on the TC's new motor versus the TXC and the TE's older valve train... as well as the Keihin EFI versus the suck-ass Mikuni shit that Husky seems to still worship for some strange reason. If I end up not liking the bike, it will be handed down to my son and I'll take back his '11 CR 150... which is the best overall dirt/mx/woods bike I've ever owned.
 
Motosportz said:
Hurry up :popcorn: I want to know how the motor is as i am interested in this model.
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I've got a '12 TC250 and it's the best motor of the x-lite series thus far. I only use it for MX so can't speak to low end stalls that one might encounter in offroad conditions as I'm not riding it in that range but it's got a nice hearty mid that is noticably stronger then either my '10 or '11 TC250 had and the new keihin FI is good. As far as starting goes it's not a hard starter per say but it definitely has more compression and takes a good strong boot. If I was riding mostly offroad I'd be a little hesitant to have any 4-stroke without a button as when any of them get hot on a real hot day and you crash or stall there's always the possibility of starting being a hit or miss affair but as far as for what I'm using it for it pretty much starts the same as you'd expect any MX 250F too. I've stalled it once or twice from too much rear barke and too high of a gear combo and it started up in a couple of kicks.
Overall I'd say it's Husky's best effort to date as an overall package.
 
vntgmx said:
I've got a '12 TC250 and it's the best motor of the x-lite series thus far. I only use it for MX so can't speak to low end stalls that one might encounter in offroad conditions as I'm not riding it in that range but it's got a nice hearty mid that is noticably stronger then either my '10 or '11 TC250 had and the new keihin FI is good. As far as starting goes it's not a hard starter per say but it definitely has more compression and takes a good strong boot. If I was riding mostly offroad I'd be a little hesitant to have any 4-stroke without a button as when any of them get hot on a real hot day and you crash or stall there's always the possibility of starting being a hit or miss affair but as far as for what I'm using it for it pretty much starts the same as you'd expect any MX 250F too. I've stalled it once or twice from too much rear barke and too high of a gear combo and it started up in a couple of kicks.
Overall I'd say it's Husky's best effort to date as an overall package.
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thank you.
 
My initial impression was that the motor made more power everywhere versus my 2010 TC 250. Especially noticeable in the transition from low to mid. However, the bike is not even close to being broken in yet so I'm expecting it to get even better. One really noticeable difference between the 2010 and the 2012 was suspension. The '12 is A LOT stiffer. My first ride was on a tight single trail with cantelope and watermellon sized Pennsylvania rocks and I felt like I was riding a pogo stick! I backed the clickers out on all settings (front and rear) 5 or more clicks before things got tolerable. Again, may take some "break-in" time on the forks and shock. As far as stalling at low speeds... this bike is much better than the '10. I turned up the idle a bit and chugged along over the boulders quite nicely at brutally low speeds without stalling. It took a bit of clutch work, but nothing drastic. I think I'll get along quite well with this bike.
 
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