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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE511 rides 2 (dualsport) and 3 (single track)

firffighter said:
Agreed, great report Kelly.

Dang you! I just got all settled into a long term relationship with my Gasgas. Now you got me thinking evil thoughts about the ability to head out of my house and hit nice fireroads and trails in 5 min. and still be able to attack singletrack and enduros with 1 bike!
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he he he... I ride right from my house in the long summer evenings up to an area about 20 miles from my house, hit a few trail loops and ride home, it's cool and fun. Heck even the curvy road heading up there is fun. The dude in the WRX with the fat muffler was surprised when i went by him in a corner Saturday
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firffighter said:
Agreed, great report Kelly.

Dang you! I just got all settled into a long term relationship with my Gasgas. Now you got me thinking evil thoughts about the ability to head out of my house and hit nice fireroads and trails in 5 min. and still be able to attack singletrack and enduros with 1 bike!
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Who said you only can have one bike....
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Sounds like a greta bike - that muffler is a biggie though but good if you want to dual sport - the sound of the smaller muffler is also very nice - great actually
 
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this bike is gonna be sooooo good for Husky. thanks for the reviews!

question: are you bleeding the forks in the beginning of that first vid? i thought you should only do that when up on a center stand (?)
 
typeone said:
:thumbsup: this bike is gonna be sooooo good for Husky. thanks for the reviews!

question: are you bleeding the forks in the beginning of that first vid? i thought you should only do that when up on a center stand (?)
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Maybe I am wrong but I think the “should” part is myth. The idea behind that is having the “same” air space or pressure at normal temps- so that your settings Comp and Rebound are predictable. The main idea there is NOT having extreme pressure or vacuum. Many people including me
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look at bleeders as a way to adjust your airspace. IF you have some preload when hitting the bleeders you just created negative airspace. This creates a bigger airspace or softer “air spring” though the effect is minimal. If you hit the bleeders while on the stand there will be pressure when the bike sits on its own weight. If you hit the bleeders when the forks and oil is warmed up you will create a vacuum when they cool. I just tap the bleeders regularly and consider air space when I do. Bit more preload= soft, less or none= normal or harder. In storage I want it equalized at normal temps for how the bike will sit- if on the stand or on with kickstand.

Nice Bike Kelly! nice reports! getting TE envy... I hope someone buys one near me so I can compare!
 
Yes air bleeders, yes you should do them fully extended but as long as they are close to fully extended you will not feel a difference and a mile into it there is pressure built up anyway.
 
Just parked my 2010 FE450 Berg and ordered up a 2011 TE449 today for my new ride.
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Desert 100 will be break-in day. After reading so many positive points on this new Husky, I have to get some saddle time on one myself. I think going from the Berg to the Husky will be a good evaluation.
 
Mootak said:
Just parked my 2010 FE450 Berg and ordered up a 2011 TE449 today for my new ride. :thumbsup: Desert 100 will be break-in day. After reading so many positive points on this new Husky, I have to get some saddle time on one myself. I think going from the Berg to the Husky will be a good evaluation.
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Jeff, that'll be a great testimonial we'll be looking forward to as well.

Is Wattsy going to use one of your bikes again later this year for his course? That would be cool to see him on a new Husky if so. He was frustrated with the trials tire on the Berg last year because it gripped too good during his drifting demo, lol. We were giggling a little bit. He still ripped, though!
 
Hey Kelly what was that black dot coming in and out of your vid??? ALIENS****************************************
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Where about's in the state are these tracks you rode on? they look good
 
Its the sun, the cam does a good job of blocking it out but not destroying the vid. You guy see the sun down there right
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The trails are in NW Washington state. Good stuff but EZ as there is no big hills etc like we usually ride. Good low elevation area when everything else is snowed in.
 
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