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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Why Husqvarna?

we are talking about a $1500 difference

if you have the money to spend and look over the intended time span you would have the bike, (lets say as a minimum 3 years) it comes effectively less then $50 a month

assuming that you make 3 trips a month its an added cost/value of $17 a ride.
the difference is that it will give you a smile in way of handling and performance in general it will give you the possibility of being able to move up your limits/capabilities in your riding when you want.

it is unlikely that the bike will show you limitations due to the bike of what you try to achieve.
I am not so sure if that is also the case with the Kawasaki


In my opinion its a sour taste in your mouth when you buy a bike and run into limitations while knowing you had the opportunity to get the right one in the first place

when money is a limitation get the bike what you can afford (at least riding is better then not riding)


effectively it will turn out that the difference between the bikes will be like this.

Kawasaki you ride a Sunday ride for about 5 hours get tired, load the bike up having a fairly good feeling but might be following your buddies constantly.

on the husky you have a Sunday ride of about 7 hours before you get to the same exhaustion point and ride up with your buddies what ever they bring to the table to ride on, you will have a better feeling for just $17

money wright spend in my opinion.

Robert-Jan
 
deacon66 said:
The whole equation changed with the $6,500 price tag of the husky. KLX runs around $5K or so, WR250 runs north of $6K and the MSRP on Husky was around $8K. Now that the Husky price is more in line, the decision becomes much easier, IMHO. Both the KLX and WR250 wiegh in just under 300 pounds... 50+ lbs heavier than the Husky. That's the piece that makes a big difference in my feeble mind.
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That's a good point on the $ ... And that ~300 lb weight is just too far over the too-heavy-of-a-bike line ... Even if you dropped 10-20LBS off it.. it's still too heavy .... ~ 250-260 LBS is about the top weight here at this CC level ... Lighter is better in many cases on a bike but weight is OK also, ... but only up to a point .. Then the extra weight starts becoming detrimental to the machine and rider ...
 
deacon66 said:
Thanks again for all the comments folks.. really glad I didn't get the typical Harley answer, "if you have to ask, you'll never understand."
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These people are great here... They helped me the same way when I was buying my new Husky in June..... Great advice from people who know what these bikes are about... Good luck with your new bike..
 
I was in the exact same place as you a year ago.
I started riding on an old xt250 and i really enjoyed the whole street legal dirtbike thing, so i decided to buy a new bike.
I narrowed it down to the wr250, te250, and klx250.

The yamaha was too much money in Canada so i didn't want it.
I browsed the KLX forums extensively and i didn't really like the people. They all think the KLX is the worlds best bike, whenever anyone said anything bad about it they would trash talk and say things like "why don't you sell it".
Cafe Husky has alot of very level headed people but the community isn't nearly as large.

Here is the strengths of each bike
The KLX (trail bike)
-Better road manners
-Much better at putting through trails, (the te250 does not like going slow, in fact I find it very exhausting going slow on it)
-cheaper
-probably more reliable and less maintenance
-Better dealer network (in canada anyways)

The Te250 (competition bike)
-Very capable, way more fun
-lighter
-suspension is light years better

When i first bought the te250 i was so disappointed with it because I kept stalling it, and I kept falling over. I shaved the seat and put real tires on it and that totally transformed the bike.
They say the te250 gets better the harder you ride it, and I can attest that this statement is 100% true
I have zero regrets now about buying the Husky

As others have said before me, it all depends what kind of riding you want to do, if you like hunting and exploring new trails and riding with people who ride 4x4 atv's, the klx is probably better.

If you don't mind wrenching and really enjoy riding a dirtbike and you want adrenaline coursing through your veins from time to time. Get the Husky
 
Te250Gary said:
As others have said before me, it all depends what kind of riding you want to do, if you like hunting and exploring new trails and riding with people who ride 4x4 atv's, the klx is probably better.

If you don't mind wrenching and really enjoy riding a dirtbike and you want adrenaline coursing through your veins from time to time. Get the Husky
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Yep that's the truth.... I rode Honda CRF 230F that was a good trail bike but it lacked in power and handing...The KLX is very similar in the fact that they are great starter bikes or for people who have ridden in the past and stopped and started again.. Myself included... But after you get your balance back it's time to move on to a much more competitive bike it you want to ride better.... I rode a KTM for a few years and then went to a new Husky... IMO but there is zero comparison between a trail bike and a true competition bike...
 
deacon66 said:
Ok...picking up my new 2012 TE 250 next Monday... Heading up to western NC for some dual sport fun next Friday! Thanks for all the input...look forward to smoking my brother on his KLX!
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You will have fun doing it too.... Good luck with your new bike... And please update us with a riding report........
 
Wow. I woul;d like to make a comment, but looks like everything is covered. Why pay a little more? Silly question. Look at the specs on both bikes and you will see in this comparison, there really is no comparison. If your a fat old boring guy and had a Kawasaki mini-bike when you were a kid then the Kawasaki may work for you. If your a fat old boring guy but can appreciate a beautiful Italian product that is exotic but does not penalize you for this feature, has great brakes suspension and a powerful fuel injected engine then by all means find a carryover jump on and go have some fun!! Oh yea, the fat old boring guy thing was just thrown in for entertainment. Been hooked on Husky since 1987 when I got a 1985 125 Husky************************************************************************************************************************!
 
fletchman45 said:
Wow. I woul;d like to make a comment, but looks like everything is covered. Why pay a little more? Silly question. Look at the specs on both bikes and you will see in this comparison, there really is no comparison. If your a fat old boring guy and had a Kawasaki mini-bike when you were a kid then the Kawasaki may work for you. If your a fat old boring guy but can appreciate a beautiful Italian product that is exotic but does not penalize you for this feature, has great brakes suspension and a powerful fuel injected engine then by all means find a carryover jump on and go have some fun!! Oh yea, the fat old boring guy thing was just thrown in for entertainment. Been hooked on Husky since 1987 when I got a 1985 125 Husky !
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Right on! That's the plan. Deal has been agreed and picking up the bike Monday.
 
deacon66 said:
Right on! That's the plan. Deal has been agreed and picking up the bike Monday.
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CONGRATS****************************************! Most everyone I know that has been or beame a Husky rider has stayed one**************************************** Had a few Orange bandwagon jumpers in the late ninetys or early 2000's or so when parts got scarce for a minute. Still scared of the BMW thing, but with this shot of steroids Husky seems to be on a positive upswing****************************************!! I took the year off but will be back hard at it next year either on a 2013 WR 250 or a Gas Gas 300!!! One of the two. Good luck with your new bike and welcome to team Husqvarna!!! Take pride in your new ownership!!!
 
OK, now I know why! Picked up the Husky on Thursday, drove up to Western NC and rode the heck out of the bike. WOW. Really strong, great handling and braking. Easily pulled away from my brother's KLX. Had a great time, even dumped the bike and cranked my knee... a week of soreness and should be back on track. Took a couple of pictures after I hosed the dirt off. Please note the Billet innovations role chart and trail computer. Really thankful for the comments, made the right decision.
 

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