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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TC 449

surprised you are swapping that exhaust first thing... but more interested to hear how you like those flex bars. You get them on?
 
ray_ray said:
Seat time is where it is at ... So the bike jumps like any other bike? Nothing funny coming off the jump lips with the CTS suspension?

243 lbs sounds pretty light to me ... ESP after hearing the weight of the TE models being much heavier ....
I'm down with the RK chains ... I had a RK 520 XSO chain once ... Rode my trail bike for months before I even had to ADJ it once ...
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Thanks for hooking me up to this thread! Great to read about other people on the TC. I have almost 100hrs on my '11 TC449, and other than the electrical issues, no problem. I actually cracked the top piece of the airbox 2 weeks ago when I took a little tumble on a hardpack MX track. Other than that, still going strong. Will race either MX or Endouro in 2 weeks, haven't decided yet. If I can keep myself and the bike together, will definitively race a few MX races this summer!!
 
RollinHusky said:
Thanks for hooking me up to this thread! Great to read about other people on the TC. I have almost 100hrs on my '11 TC449, and other than the electrical issues, no problem. I actually cracked the top piece of the airbox 2 weeks ago when I took a little tumble on a hardpack MX track. Other than that, still going strong. Will race either MX or Endouro in 2 weeks, haven't decided yet. If I can keep myself and the bike together, will definitively race a few MX races this summer!!
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MX all the way!
 
RollinHusky said:
Thanks for hooking me up to this thread! Great to read about other people on the TC. I have almost 100hrs on my '11 TC449, and other than the electrical issues, no problem. I actually cracked the top piece of the airbox 2 weeks ago when I took a little tumble on a hardpack MX track. Other than that, still going strong. Will race either MX or Endouro in 2 weeks, haven't decided yet. If I can keep myself and the bike together, will definitively race a few MX races this summer!!
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Hey rollinhusky what electrical issues did you have? I also have a 11 tc 449
 
bbc said:
Hey rollinhusky what electrical issues did you have? I also have a 11 tc 449
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The battery kept dying on me. It would start fine (sometimes) and then if I stalled on the track, took a little corner dive or just shut it off for a few minutes, it wouldn't have enough juice to turn over. Then one time after I dropped it, it wouldn't even turn. 2 things that probably caused the batterie to drain. One, I rode in thick mud (no deep water) on an mx track, and we think that some mud might have snuck in one of the connectors, which didn't help with the electrical contact being made, therefore somehow affecting the battery. Two, the safety switch got busted when I took a spill and my hanguards broke the wires right off. When I taped the 2 wires together, it probably kept the something on, in the electrical components, and that drained the battery as well.
Now at a GNCC race, I rode for 45 minutes for practice and then just stalled it and it never fired up again. We put a new battery in the next morning, and 5 minutes later, I shut off at tech inspection and still it didn't want to start. I jerked the handlebars form left to right and tried again and it started. I was told that a pinched wire around the steering area had been a problem on another bike before, so who knows?

Since then I just put an on/off switch behind the number plate to act as the safety switch and make sure to shut it off when I don't need it. So far so good!! I'll find out more this weekend if my quick fix worked. All these issues could have been flukes, but I tell ya, running around at the track with a battery pack is hard on the ego! Especially when you're the only Husky around. Sorry if I wrote a novel, but it's hard to explain in a few sentences!
 
I'm starting to like this bike more and more. I rode it at my home mx track which is about 1.25 miles long and mostly sand whoops. The rear wheel feels like it is stuck to the ground. This bike will accelerate through all of the chop where as all of my other bikes bounced around and lost time. I cannot believe how good this thing is through the rough chop. I can't wait till I get the right spring rate and ohlins ttx shock on the back.
 
That should be the shinning point of that bike, hooking up in chop. Taking the chain torque off the rear suspension will do that.
 
So I went to a tight local supercross style track on Friday night. The ground was a nice loamy-sandy mix. Average lap times were around 1:15. Practice went good. The bike really likes to follow ruts. All of the mags said that this bike was too long and too heavy, but I just don't get it. It's very stable at speed. I think that because of the gas tank location, you can slide way up and it really corners well. Stays planted and follows the lines.

I'm still waiting on the correct rear spring from Zip Ty. I've only got around 90mm of free sag and too much static sag at the moment. The lighter rear spring should get my sag numbers right on.

First moto I was third off of the start, and the bike literally quite in mid air on the first lap over a small table top. It was like running out of gas or hitting the kill switch. No snap, crackle or pop. Just quit. It rolled over fine with the electric starter, but would not fire. I waited for about two laps, and then she fired back up no problem. I still cannot figure out what went wrong. I had plenty of gas, no wires exposed, no water anywhere on the track. Radiators were full and oil was level.

So the second moto I battled with another rider for the entire moto. The bike ran great. I ended up going around him on the last lap when he tipped over in a corner and took the win. I think it was the 449's first moto win in Michigan as I have yet to see another one in the state!

Good weekend of racing, I just wish I could figure out why it quit in the first moto...
 
Ha ha. Yeah, at least it wasn't catastrophic like a blown engine or me getting landed on. Definitely would have put a damper on the weekend.
 
That sucks big time, especially if you don't know what the problem is. Good thing it wasn't off a major jump. I have a lot of hours on my TC449 and that has never happened. Pretty sure I got the starting issue covered, but never has it failed while running. Please keep us posted on what you find with that issue.
 
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