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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Was this a mistake?

Mike Rotella

Mike Rotella

Husqvarna
A Class
I love my new TXC310, but I cant help waking up every morning thinking I made a mistake. There really arent any parts available, my local dealer sucks, If something major goes wrong I'm screwed. I have probably one of the best KTM dealers/race shops in the country less than an hour away. I think I should have bought orange. :(
 
Mike Rotella said:
I love my new TXC310, but I cant help waking up every morning thinking I made a mistake. There really arent any parts available, my local dealer sucks, If something major goes wrong I'm screwed. I have probably one of the best KTM dealers/race shops in the country less than an hour away. I think I should have bought orange. :(
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I live in Alaska and order all my parts from BMP in Oregon. Bryon has never let me down. I'll bet they can get whatever parts you need and get them to you quickly.
 
The dealer I use for parts is 4 hours away. I just order from them and always get my new parts quick. Having a local dealer doesnt really bother me too much. I guess that because you bought new its a bit different though.
 
I'm not a mechanic either, so it doesnt really matter if I can get them or not. It takes me three hours to install handguards and grips cause I'm so freaking anal.
 
I drove 14 hours round trip to get my first new Husky. That was the only dealer in my area at the time. Yea I had problems, but it made me learn how to fix them myself and that is priceless.
 
Perhaps your "anal" comment best explains your underlying desire for things orange.
:banana:
(just kidding you of course)
 
Mike-AK said:
I live in Alaska and order all my parts from BMP in Oregon. Bryon has never let me down. I'll bet they can get whatever parts you need and get them to you quickly.
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I live in Texas and I have a Husky dealer about 8 miles from my house, but I order ALL my parts from Bryon at BMP. He ships them to me USPS for about $6 for small parts like the brake shoes I needed real bad.

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OlderHuskyRider said:
I live in Texas and I have a Husky dealer about 8 miles from my house, but I order ALL my parts from Bryon at BMP.
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Bryon must be super busy because lots of people from everywhere do this. I have the advantage of being 60 miles away so if i get my order in before about 3 they are on my doorstep the next day. Those guys rule.
 
Mike Rotella said:
I'm not a mechanic either, so it doesnt really matter if I can get them or not. It takes me three hours to install handguards and grips cause I'm so freaking anal.
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At least half the bike, probably more, is common with many other high-end bikes (KYB suspension, Keihin injection, Excel rims, Domino throttle, Brembo brakes and controls, etc... Outside of catastrophic engine or transmission failure (not likely) any reputable shop ought to be able to take care of any problems you might have, regardless of what brand they sell.
 
Where do you live that parts are difficult to get?

Tasky's Metric Cycle in Everett WA has been my source for stock parts, Motosportz for my husky Armor, Rocky mtn ATV for tires,oil, consumables.

I gotta say that little red USB pen Husqvarna provided with my 12 TE310 has become my new favorite tool.

Downloaded all the PDF's for parts and service I could find on it, keep my service records updated on it as well. Valve clearance intial, fluid changes, etc.
So far it's been very helpful; even finding the drain plug for a "simple" oil change. (TE joke, you TXC guys may not get it)

Bought a clunker laptop at Goodwill for $50 I use just for wrenching on the bike. For someone with the attention span of a caffinated ferret it's been very helpful.
 
I'm not sure where you are but I'm sure there are people in your area from this forum that would be willing to help for a 6 pack of beer. Not to mention most things have been covered. I've seen a lot being on this forum and there are a lot of knowledgable people that are willing to help. You really have an amazing bike so I wouldn't worry to much about what's going to go wrong, just enjoy the ride
 
Mike, Like everyone is saying, BMP and Halls are taking care of everyone who lacks a great dealer in their neighborhood. Many others can attest to Halls. BMP is in my backyard (well they are 60 miles away and I shun 3 KTM dealers on my way there !!!) Everyone at BMP lives motorcycles and go out of their way to provide great service. Its worth a phone call to test us on this, it really is.

http://billshusky.com
 
If anything bothers you a lot, then yes it was a mistake, regardless of topic. You really should feel good about your decisions.

I've made a *lot* of what I thought were mistakes, and in the past I've continued to evaluate my decisions until either undoing what was a mistake, or prove to myself that it was not a mistake. Possibly a 'stop' order on a companies stock I bought, possibly talking to co-workers at the new job to find out why things are the way they are, etc.

If I had to re-evaluate a 'did I buy the right bike' decision, I would ride it, a lot. Preferably with other people that had the same bike or bike manufacturer so information could flow person-to-person about the details of the bike.
 
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