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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

X-Lite TE/TXC 250 Gearing Survey

Phoenix

Phoenix

Husqvarna
AA Class
I currently have 13/50 on my 2010 TXC 250 and it has come time for a new front sprocket. I went ahead and ordered another 13 (under the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" idea), but was kind of curious what others with this motor are running. I've seen some talk about 310s, but assumed the gear ratios would be a bit different.

So what are you running, do you like it, and what type of riding to you generally do?

For me...13/50 (that's what was on it when I bought it) in mostly single track woods and rocky areas.
 
I ran 13/50 stock for awhile on all single track. Found myself wanting 2nd to come out of corners but needing 3rd often and felt like im always in between neither being right. If its real tight I have to go down to 1st which I really don't think I should have to do if I keep the speed and momentum up. I just installed 12/50 and only have 1 ride on it- on "really" tight single track. First impressions are that it made 2nd and 3rd come alive like I had hoped pretty much eliminating the need for 1st. The down fall is it seems to make 2nd "short lived" if that makes sense(3rd and up as well on anything other than single track). Great out of corners but revs out fast. I think when my rear wears out Ill try 13/52 as a compromise.

2011 TE 250 single track only otherwise Ill take the 450.

Curious also to see what others chime in with.....
 
JasonfromMN said:
I ran 13/50 stock for awhile on all single track. Found myself wanting 2nd to come out of corners but needing 3rd often and felt like im always in between neither being right. If its real tight I have to go down to 1st which I really don't think I should have to do if I keep the speed and momentum up. I just installed 12/50 and only have 1 ride on it- on "really" tight single track. First impressions are that it made 2nd and 3rd come alive like I had hoped pretty much eliminating the need for 1st. The down fall is it seems to make 2nd "short lived" if that makes sense(3rd and up as well on anything other than single track). Great out of corners but revs out fast. I think when my rear wears out Ill try 13/52 as a compromise.

2011 TE 250 single track only otherwise Ill take the 450.

Curious also to see what others chime in with.....
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My thoughts exactly. I am happy with the 12/50 and I am on my second 12 tooth front sprocket. Only downside is the curl kind of quickly compared to a 13 tooth front. Single track east coast woods only here.
 
I run a 14/50 on my 2008 TE250. I ride tight PA woods. I feel it is perfect, great controllable traction, but if you get in trouble just feather the clutch, RPM's hit 5K and bike rips. I want to try and go even lower. I would love to try 15/50. I also ride it on the street and the 15 would make it a great back roads bike.
Right now the RPM is way to high for me over 35-40mph.
 
12/50 here on a 2010 TE250 but I only run ST in the east coast. I feel is perfect for those conditions even if it means sacrificing speed while connecting ST sections in some enduros. I had recently installed a full akra exhaust and the jd 6x tunning device and I've been wondering what it would do now if I were to go back up to a 13/50 combo...
 
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