1. Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

83 CR500, here begineth the lesson

Discussion in 'Vintage Restoration Projects' started by Wildebeest90210, Dec 31, 2011.

  1. Wildebeest90210 Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    Gloucestershire.
    Most of my machine shop time is going in to my KTM project so I just bit the bullet and bought one from HVA factroy UK. Not sure what it cost, I ask for an invoice once a month and pay the lot, if I ever looked at invoices my bikes probably would'nt get built !
  2. suprize Husqvarna
    Pro Class

    Location:
    Bendigo, Australia
    Husqvarna Motorcycle:
    WR 400, bike in a box Moto Villa 350
    Other Motorcycles:
    ktm 300
    Dont look at the invoices.... never look at them. i did once and it took weeks to recover.. its bad idea
  3. Wildebeest90210 Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    Gloucestershire.
    I got a rear brake too. Needs some adustment on the torque arm length.

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    Horace has his head on upside down...... 100_4017.JPG

    But worse than that, the wife has just invented a 'Green shark bite' with a Calgary MX track back drop. Thank you and good night... !

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  4. suprize Husqvarna
    Pro Class

    Location:
    Bendigo, Australia
    Husqvarna Motorcycle:
    WR 400, bike in a box Moto Villa 350
    Other Motorcycles:
    ktm 300
    The green shark bite eh?? looks like ring tester to me.
  5. Wildebeest90210 Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    Gloucestershire.
    The original kicker was well worn, heavy and looked awkward so I ebayed a KTM LC4 left kickstart and got the hacksaw out..

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    Bottoms on the gear lever at the moment but I have a plan for that. And anyway, it'll start first time right ??????????

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  6. hvaloz2 Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    fareham
    is that swinging arm nut fully in the "nyloc" part of the nut my friend?.... and as for starting first time i like your gallows humour.
  7. Wildebeest90210 Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    Gloucestershire.
    Waiting for a new nut. It's actually going in to the workshop for the exhaust mods tomorrow !! So will be testing first kick strategy soon.
  8. suprize Husqvarna
    Pro Class

    Location:
    Bendigo, Australia
    Husqvarna Motorcycle:
    WR 400, bike in a box Moto Villa 350
    Other Motorcycles:
    ktm 300
    Fine art exhibit, dont ever ride it,get a supermodel to pose naked over it and sell the prints to the michelin boys...
  9. Stupot Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Great bike,keep up the good work and all the gallows humour too.What year bike is the clutch cover off.
  10. Wildebeest90210 Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    Gloucestershire.
    I'm goin to hammer it. The KTM blew up outside Liz Hurleys place just down the road, hopin the Husky lets go around about the same place. Maybe she'll answer the door this time ?????
  11. Wildebeest90210 Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    Gloucestershire.
    Its a 2000 Te 4T. Hopin that I get the bike back this week with exhaust fitted proper, gettin real withdrawl symptoms !!!
  12. dukkman Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    Warwick Queensland Australia
    Husqvarna Motorcycle:
    85/WR 400,86/WR 240,83/430 is mates
    Other Motorcycles:
    69@71/TS90-76/TS100-72/DKW-78/PE
    Wasting your time mate , she's over here in Aus with that wanke**r.:cry:
  13. suprize Husqvarna
    Pro Class

    Location:
    Bendigo, Australia
    Husqvarna Motorcycle:
    WR 400, bike in a box Moto Villa 350
    Other Motorcycles:
    ktm 300
    Absolutely, no chance she is there, she is cob at Warne`s!
  14. Wildebeest90210 Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    Gloucestershire.
    Thanks for the tip, a good chance to rifle the undie drawer, only problem is by the look of him these days they probably share the same lingerie so maybe not !!!
  15. Wildebeest90210 Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    Gloucestershire.
    I made a monster, the extra 15mm on this brake lever could be the difference between hit and miss on a bambi of the sort I'm just about to curry

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  16. schimmelaw Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    Rowlett, Texas
    Interesting. Nice workmanship. Will need a report on improvement made.
    RIck
  17. Ron Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    Azusa, CA
    I wanna buy one!!
  18. oneal Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    uk
    Husqvarna Motorcycle:
    1999 wr 250 returned home.
    Other Motorcycles:
    07 TE 450 2005 TE 450 1999 CR 125
    any more news on the build its been a while
  19. Wildebeest90210 Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    Gloucestershire.
    Very frustrated, the bike is off to get the exhaust fitted. I've seen it today, its been cut and should be welded over the weekend and tweeked next week. If not I'm gonna bust it out of there and do it myself. I got the KTM525 engine I'm building and shoe horning a KTM690 in to a gsxr400 to keep me busy but I'm getting Husky sick. Thats the one I really want to get going.
    And you can only imagine what the GSXR400 forum is like !! Maybe I'm spoilt by the info, expertise and enthusiasm on this site?
  20. suprize Husqvarna
    Pro Class

    Location:
    Bendigo, Australia
    Husqvarna Motorcycle:
    WR 400, bike in a box Moto Villa 350
    Other Motorcycles:
    ktm 300
    took the monster out for spin and gave it a descent serve of right fist.. phuq me it goes, its like 125 with 60 hp!! ol mates port tool spread some hp about. i need to check the timing a little more accurately then i will lean the needle of one more clip and see if i can tame the transition. its great in the tight stuff but getting on to 3rd gear more open stuff is a wild ride. hope you get the pipe sorted soon as the fun is just begining...