husky te610 98 ?1100 too good to be true ?

[colin1]

Im thinking about a road legal big single with a set of offroad wheels and a set of supermoto wheels

I know I am fine on something like a wr450. Wd a 600 be much more unmanageable ? im 5ft8

this seems about £500 cheaper than other stuff

https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=013&item=230022549317&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

is this because it has expensive problems ?

are ccm and husky always cheaper than jap bikes, is quality about the same ?

If I got something it wd have to be something low maintenance.

smaller bikes wd probably better offroad for me, but i had thought bigger bikes might be more handy on the road.

got a bit of cash, not sure whether to part with it. could get something for £1500 but would prefer something less

quite a few motocross tracks near me and i quite like the idea of using a dirt bike style bike around town too.

quite possible it wd be used on road more than offroad which is why im now leaning a bit more towards bigger bikes. on road use about 50mph max

a wr450 seems to have a lot more power than an old 650 dominator but one was on a track, and the other on road, so hard to tell

opinions on that bike on ebay pls and anything related
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Husky are part of Cagiva.

Any proper Supermoto is not going to be low maintenance. They are competition bikes crudely converted by someone in the past for road use. Still going to have a very short service interval (probably ~500 mile oil changes).

All the best

Keith
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[Kickstart]

Hi

By the way, suspect the pic at the bottom of that Ebay listing is at rather a different date to the main ones. Extra number, different front mudguard, different exhausts, etc.

All the best

Keith
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[colin1]

so how can i find out which models are highly tuned high maintenance things and which arent ?

for example i think a wr450 has similar service intervals to a normal road bike buy a yzf 450 is more of a full on motocross bike so will need more frequent servicing

is this right ?

i was assuming that anything road legal was normal servicing, and anything in the motocross section was high maintenance
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[mr.tattoo]

the wr is an enduro bike and yz is a full on crosser, the wr is longer service intervals and yz shorter but you get a u much more quicker, lighter bike with a yz... any decent quick bikes will need more maintenance, most just need regular oil and filters which is cheap as most only hold around a litre of oil anyhows, and a valve clearance check evry now and then, other than that there pretty reliable, its only ktm and husaberg which tend to go pop more often and are pricy for spares!! ive got a road legal yz400 at the mo which is briliant, very reliable and great fun, had a go on a wr recently and it felt, heavy, bouncy and slow compared... if you want a comuter go for a wr, ccm ect ect if you want wheelies and fun go for a better bike........ oh and that husky will prob need a top end rebuild at least, new cam chain and tensioner ect, may prove costly if your not doing the work yourself

[cagiva gezzer]

The TE610 is an off road bike. The TE610E is more road based.

Not sure if they share the same engine internals. They won't have intervals as low as 500miles.

Older air-cooled bikes have hgigher intervals.

Newer 400cc ones have much shorter intervals, except the drz as it's less stressed.

At a guess, high interval bikes would be DRZ, LC4, RC600/Nordwest / TTR600 / DR?00 / XL600 / XR600.

Things like CRF's are more expensivce to maintain than two strokes of similar power output - see attached pdf.
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[mr.tattoo]

all the latest four strokes like crf, rmz ect are VERY high maintenance, more than most two strokes, as above things like drz,xr are ok maintenance wise but just dont have the umphhh that the others do..... best to go ride some and see for yourself and see what power bike youl be happy with as all peple are diferent buddy

[Kickstart]

Hi

Found this:-

https://www.husqvarnausa.com/ownersManuals/TE610E-SM610S.pdf#search=%22husqvarna%20te610%20manual%22

Owners manual for the TE610E.

The servicing might worry you (and that is the road biased version).

All the best

Keith
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[instigator]

All I know about Husky's is that one bloke in RiDE magazine had one and the oil change intervals were indeed 500 miles. No bike would be worth that effort in my opinion.

[kat250]

A certain member had a full on race sm model that had oil change intervals of about 100 miles . Easy engines to work on thought just an exceedingly high price for parts.
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[syl]

Looking at the chain in the pictures on that auction - that one hasn't been maintained very well at all (dry, slack, tight links and a bit of paint). If they are supposed to be high maintenance, that one might be one to steer clear of.
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