2021 HUSQVARNA TE300i 6 MONTH REVIEW | LIVING WITH A 2 STROKE AGAIN

[Music] um [Music] hey guys giving you a bit of an update on the 21t 300i i've had this for about six months now done about 25 hours and put about a thousand k's on the clock so far um so i thought i'm just going to run through what i like about the bike what i don't like about the bike whether there's many um what i like to do the bike moving forwards and the other types of terrain and riding i want to do moving moving ahead too um so pretty much the first thing for me is i haven't had a like you've seen in some of the earlier videos a two-stroke for a long long time and we're deliberating between going you know from a 450 to a two-stroke or staying on a 450 being from a motocross style background in the past off-road was sort of new to me um anyway been wanting to get a two-stroke for a long time so i went to uh jason at moto tech kdm in geelong and decided that 300 was the bike for me he hooked me up got me all set up with the bike and i was pretty keen to get it out on the track first couple of rides which is pretty crazy sort of rides with some mates through some trails learning the bike learning the feel of the bike how the 300 ran i really enjoyed the uh the talkiness of this two-stroke um so when i was a little bit tired or being a little bit lazy i could just talk it up the hills or through the trails i didn't have to hit you know powerband all the time and be right at the peak power like a like a normal 250 or 125 motocross bike um yeah fell in love with it very quickly very light that was probably the biggest thing i noticed right away was how light and flickable this thing is um you know jumping through the the trails and stuff you know cruising through all the little bumps and loops and different things here and there it was just really easy on this and it just didn't feel like i had to work super super hard on it just to get it to move around um probably on the first couple of rides i was just getting my riding style in working out how i liked things to be set up from levers and those types of things and yeah pretty much didn't do too much else to the bike at that stage it was really just getting a feel for the bike what i liked how it worked in the bush uh so from there um i did a couple more trail rides a bit more in depth um a little bit more you know adding the um sort of the boggy sort of areas of the trails around home and um sort of tried out something a little bit different and it really came into its own in those areas and i i just found after riding for two or three hours i still had plenty of energy to keep going you know it wasn't draining the absolute out of me um which for me was a really big thing um i wanted something that i could spend most of the day on you know and and ride the trails um i also didn't know how far i would get out of a tank at that stage and i've learned pretty quickly around on average about 100ks out of a tank um is about what i get so so most general trail rides and single rods single trails and stuff like that i actually find that it's pretty good through them sort of areas and i generally get away with the tank of fuel um so after doing a few rides out in the bush with some mates and my brother getting things sorted out seeing how i enjoyed the bike and the type of power it was producing it it also didn't feel like it was super super quick but it was really deceiving uh you'd be out with the boys on 450s and you weren't working really hard to keep up with them while they were giving their 450s a bit of a handful um yeah you know and it just didn't chew through ties super quick doesn't stretch the chain out like a 450 did i kind of was looking at it from a maintenance perspective and i was like geez this thing's actually is really really good really happy with it you know and basically went from there so the next thing i did was i took it out to a motocross track um probably not the best conditions to ride on the motocross track it was very dry very very windy um and i hadn't been motocross for about three years since i um broke my leg and tore my achilles and um yeah it was a heap of fun i just love smashing out 20 minute motors and um yeah not the fastest bloke in the world these days and the suspension was definitely pretty soft when i come short i'll come up short on some of the jumps but you know all in all it was a heap of fun and trying to actually keep traction down on a two-stroke on a motocross track you just want to ride it like a motocross bike you it's really hard not to ride it like a 250 two-stroke um which is awesome there's nothing wrong with that you know i think riding a two-stroke like that is is a heap of fun and just hearing that bike on the pipes cool um on the flip side yeah it probably was a little bit soft like i said some of the sharp edge bumps that it didn't like on the motocross track and things like that but you know i still haven't really touched much of the suspension at this stage um that's on my list of things to do but you know haven't done too much else other than going a click harder in the rear and really just riding the bike as it is from stock um so that was a really really cool tr getting out on the track and i want to do more track riding in the future i want to get out to ride park and stuff which is down here and hit some bigger jumps and bits and pieces and actually you know rats and things that didn't quite form up on the track that i was at it which was back as much at the time from there i think the next big ride was i did a two-day adventure ride with my munchen adventures and that was through the victorian high country something i'd never done before never been up into the high country other than to go snowboarding when it snows in the middle of winter so me and my brother decided to to get out and try something really different for us and um didn't know what to expect you know what the trails were going to be like didn't know how the two-stroke would go given the fact that it's this you know it's it's more adventure riding than it is single trails or trail riding on motocross and um you know what i did really really well um yeah i definitely would have got more tired than a lot of the boys on the 450s and then the other four strokes that could chug along up some of the hills and things where i had to kind of get keep on the band and you know keep in that power range and just stopped the bike from failing when we were doing longer longer trips um you know sitting on 80 k's an hour for about 30 k's was uh was probably the worst thing that we had to do on day two on this but the first day it was magic the thing ran ran awesome and you know i've got we did about 100ks in the first day and i still had a decent amount of fuel left we did plenty of hills um and things like that and wide open trails and it was really really cool um it was good to hit some of those four-wheel drive little i don't know what you call them on the tracks but they're like little to me they were jumps you know hitting them at speed and jumping over the hull cause you know why slow down it's always fun to just keep going um so yeah that was really cool and i'd set up my phone on the on the bike with a charger 12 volt charging kit to go and go along with it so i could sort of you know see where the trails were going and then keep the phone charged as i was plodding along um so in the first day you know try creek crossings and all sorts of different things and and really different terrain as you go through through the high country down low it can be quite quite pleasant and and really um you know more like local down here where you get the ferns and then the softer the softer dirt where you can really hook up and get traction and then the next thing you know you're coming up a hill and it's just rocky and shyly and and the boy the wheels just spinning everywhere as i'm just losing traction and hitting band and um yeah become a little bit sketchy um so that was day one we cruised all the way down to dargo for that stay there the night the bike sit outside in the rain all night unfortunately but it was what it was and uh woke up in the morning prepped and ready for another day out on the trails and i think that day there we the first part of the day was pretty good um i really started to chew through my tyre at that stage the rocky shower was killing the kill on the tyre that was on that came with the bike the the metzeler um and yeah it was really starting to notice it on the shalley hills that i just was starting to lose traction a bit more um we did that long stretch of about 30 to 40 k's coming across the high country and the planes across the top of the hills there and yeah pretty much after that the bike started to get a bit boggy and i probably realistically should have changed the spa plug at that stage and and decided to you know get the thing running a little bit nicer i did have the opportunity which is bloody cold and i just didn't want to get around to doing it saw some amazing places on that trip and um yeah the bikes do around fine got me everywhere i needed to be it just needed that little bit more of a rare it just was refusing to lug um as much it was just wanting to sort of just yeah stall a little bit easier than it had normally which it very rarely wants to stall it's one of the best bikes that i've ever ridden where i don't have to stress about installing when i'm just chugging along up hills and stuff it's uh it's magnificent that way and then throwing a hydraulic clutch that you know you don't have to work super hard on is really cool so from there was a really cool second day loaded up came home and done a couple of trials since and some other two different types of trails where not so much through the mud and things like that but some more uh australia little hills and trails and rivers and stuff which was really cool with me brother and you know we got the old dr 350 out and it was it was fun to see an old and old bike just cruising around and chasing him throughout the day and that was really fun um more recently got out to a mates place i put a new set of dunlop at 81's on the bike um which were a bit more soft or a little softer and i was hoping to get a lot more traction out of these out in the bush and and out and headed out did a trail on these and um with a mate rod and you know i i really didn't feel that much difference from the metzelers and maybe i just had the wrong pressures in the tyres on the day and played around a bit with a bit of those and maybe my writing style was a bit off that day but i really didn't feel like i had quite any additional front-end traction that i had previously which i was really hoping to improve on it was one of the things that i that i want to improve moving forwards um from there i did a bit of a grass track with me uh brother again i do a lot of riding with with my younger brother um on his rmx 450 and yeah he hit the grass track head in the uh at a friend's place locally and uh conditions were absolutely mint like been raining for about a week it was freezing cold but geez the conditions were magic there was just the right amount of moisture in the soil and this thing hooked up that day it was it was pretty wild and pretty fun and it was it was awesome just cruising around and having a ball and actually throwing this thing around a bit more on the open um grass tracks a nice sort of jump in the middle of the track too which you know was perfect for hitting that on this and i had no issues with suspension-wise hitting those jumps or anything um i kind of dropped about six or seven kilos since i bought the bike so i'm pretty light at the moment um and probably about the the right weight for the way that it sprung currently whereas it was a little bit softer at the start when i first got on the bike um yeah so anyway that's what i've done on it so far the only real changes i've done to the bike is i've thrown on a real basic pipe guard and heavies bash plate which i love it's been awesome um there's a heap of marks in it for me we're doing the high country where i reckon a few rocks might have might have cracked some cases um so i'm glad i had that running um other than that a new set of tyres and a sweet looking set of graphics from whole shot hog moto graphics head of ballarat there um yeah it's pretty much all i've really done to the bike i've just been servicing it a heap making sure that um you know changing the filters regularly dropping the oil every probably six to seven hours depending on the riding i'm doing um yeah greasing everything as per normal had it serviced by the local dealer at about 15 hours and yeah so far i can't fault it nothing's broken on the bike it's been really really good no issues with the um the with you know the tpi that a lot of people speak about um so far so good and yeah definitely no issues running 98 octane fuel um out here in australia and it's been really really good i said no issues so far so what would i like to do to the bike um really thinking about getting a tsp head a um like a mild compression head for the bike and an ecu remap there is there is a little bit of a lull i find between the bottom end and the top end um where it kind of sometimes hits a bit of a flat spot um it could be my imagination i don't know i'll tell i feel like there's a little bit of a gap and if i'm not quite in that power range in the right spot especially in places like a motocross track where it's probably a little bit more important um yeah lose a little bit of power so i've been looking at one of those um they're about i think about 800 here in australia so i'm pretty interested in getting one of those local company as well which is awesome and getting one of those put on um getting the suspension set up so i'll go see jase at jcp and get the suspension actually set up properly that could make all the difference for me moving forwards as well with getting me a bit more comfortable on the bike um so far i haven't even changed the map switch i've just been riding with a normal map i i i don't think i need less power anywhere or a more milder power so far i find i can ride the bike the way i want it other than that little odd flat spot in the middle there every now and again it catches me out if i'm just not in the right the right gear um and i just lose that little bit of power and from there i don't think there'd be too much else to do at this stage i think that'll be the modifications to start maybe some a few more protective bits and pieces around the bike just to look after another set of hand guards these ones are getting pretty smashed up from the trees and and stuff and maybe a um led light before the light gets a little bit darker at the end of the night at the end of a trail um but all in all i i'm super happy with this bike for the majority of riding i do it's perfect um i it's so it's low maintenance i have to mix fuel which isn't really that hard but you know what when you're out and about and going away for a couple of days it's just one less thing to have to worry about um electric start's been fine so far you know super happy with it i like the way that it feels the way that it rides i love the power um yeah it's been a really really fun bike so far and i and i can't complain too much about it really um yeah parts are amazing um nothing's worn out nothing's needed to be replaced other than tyres and that's just normal maintenance you know those types of things and yeah no it's probably an awesome bike and i highly recommend um the one thing you probably didn't do that well was the high country uh i think if i was going to do more of that on a regular basis i might buy something like a tenner a 700 or even a 500 you know te 500 um i usually call t500 or fv5 sorry fe 500 or 501 or or kdm 500 and put a big long range tank on it and stuff like that something i can just lug around and you know don't have to stress too much about just just throttling the thing when it's getting a little bit uh getting a little bit rich so anyway all in all great bike love it um hope you enjoyed my review and uh i'll do another one at about the 12 18 month mark or something like that when i've done a rebuild and maybe chuck some new parts on the bike so um anyway like subscribe the videos um if you want to see plenty of content i'm posting videos on a pretty regular basis and yeah cleaning it out and do more trails awesome cheers guys

Channel: ZiggleBuzz Moto

Views: 12,467

Rating: 4.8451614 out of 5

Keywords: enduro, husqvarna, te300i, te300, 2 stroke, husky, dirtbike, offroad, trailsbike, bush, trails, mx, motox

Id: Of60cayZ66I

Length: 15min 52sec (952 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 12 2021