• 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.

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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Your Feedback Please '13 TE449

PaulS

PaulS

Husqvarna
A Class
Hi everyone,
Been a while sine I've cruised the forum, but I would really appreciate your feedback here.

My original ownership started with a 2011 TC449, my first high end offroader. I found I rode primarily trails/singletrack. I sold the TC449 for an 08 'Berg FE450 and loved the dualsport aspect; this bike was really high end and rode ideally for me in a 80/20 offroad/street. I sold the 'Berg and now find myself with an opportunity to buy a mint '13 TE449.

Any owners of the TE449 who can offer opinions on this bike as a mild tourer (100-150miles to trail heads). I'm looking at a 100% stock, straight from the dealer style bike.

Other options outside a Husky would be the 'Berg FE350 or a KTM EXC, but I love the way the Husky looks, just my opinion.

Thanks to all.
Paul
 
Had the 13 449 and 511, once sorted extremely fun bikes. Mine were in SM trim and for street ran a 42 tooth sprocket instead of the stock 49. These bikes can be a bit quirky, and imo need a few upgrades to make them run as they should. 100-150 miles on these is a bit long your butt is gonna be sore as hell if you don't get a better seat and I wouldn't run it that far at freeway speeds, twisty roads however and you should be ok.
 
Thanks, good info.

I red about the oil level issue and potential off-idle flare ups.
My TC449 didn't have these issues from what I remember but again that was years ago.

A seat upgrade may be warranted though :)
 
I sent a report for ya to the admins. Once they see it they can move it. In the meantime I can tell you that while 100-150 miles is a LONG way on pavement long trips are certainly not out of bounds for this bike. In May I rode over 300 miles in 2 days of mixed dual sport with a Berg and a Husky 501. We had mixed single track, fire roads, pavement, sand, rocks, etc. and it was great!

The down side of the stock bike for your purposes are...
1. Short range with stock tank. Around 80 miles MAX before you need gas. If you're really getting after it, plan on more like 70 miles. I added a Nomad external tank and now have 100+ mile range

2. Gearing - Close internal ratios mean that if you gear for great trail riding and a hard to stall first gear, your top speed will be quite low for those pavement sorties. If you gear for dual sport, your clutch will get a serious workout if you get into really technical terrain.

3. Fueling - Yes the TC is much better because it doesn't need to pass EPA On Road Tests. Unless you know it's been done, make sure you get the Akropovic map (AKA Map 3) loaded into your ECU. This will greatly improve the stalling issue. You can send it ZipTy Racing and they will take care of it for you. http://www.ziptyracing.com/te449-511-ecu-upgrade/

Oh and get a Seat Concepts seat. Make that the first thing you do, maybe while your ECU is at ZipTy. They are a Cafe Husky sponsor and make a great product. My butt tells me it's way better than the upholstered 2X4 that is stock.
 
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