Hi:
A friend had picked up a couple of old bikes and after a few months decided he really didn't want to deal with the Husky. Interestingly, the bike has a key!
Before:
The key thing had me intrigued, so I tried to trace the myriad of wires that were all over the bike. There were pink wires, orange wires, yellow wires spliced to green wires and it was all held together with pink zip-ties. There were wires that started nowhere and ended nowhere. I gave up trying to sort though it and cut it all off.
Now:
This picture is from about a month ago. I was just fitting things up to see how many bits and pieces I had left over. Not all that many.
The 40mm forks came off ... well ... not a clue. They have 15 12 358 on them and that seems to narrow them down to an 82 through 84 CR. I check the travel and far as I can tell they are CR forks. What kinda CR forks ... no clue. Took them apart, stripped the gold paint off, cleaned them up, painted them black, seals, top-out washers, 15W @ 130mm and threw them on. They are stiff, but I'm hoping that is just the new seals. If not ... a Plan B will have to be figured out.
The triple came from EBay. Took at trip to Huskydogggggg's Emporium of Goodness and he had a front wheel assembly that fit the bill. Thanks Steve!
The bars have been refinished and the "angled" bar clamps put back on.
The top end is now 1st-over and the barrel was put back straight. For some reason, the barrel was installed in the cylinder squint, maybe from the factory, maybe by a previous owner.
There is a quite a bit left to do, the biggest item is to figure out what to do about the shocks. Rebuild them myself, send them somewhere, or replace them with something else? There are no plans to do any serious vintage racing, although I'm pretty sure I'll be getting in on the local vintage MX thing, just treating the whole thing as more of a trail ride than a race.
A friend had picked up a couple of old bikes and after a few months decided he really didn't want to deal with the Husky. Interestingly, the bike has a key!
Before:
The key thing had me intrigued, so I tried to trace the myriad of wires that were all over the bike. There were pink wires, orange wires, yellow wires spliced to green wires and it was all held together with pink zip-ties. There were wires that started nowhere and ended nowhere. I gave up trying to sort though it and cut it all off.
Now:
This picture is from about a month ago. I was just fitting things up to see how many bits and pieces I had left over. Not all that many.
The 40mm forks came off ... well ... not a clue. They have 15 12 358 on them and that seems to narrow them down to an 82 through 84 CR. I check the travel and far as I can tell they are CR forks. What kinda CR forks ... no clue. Took them apart, stripped the gold paint off, cleaned them up, painted them black, seals, top-out washers, 15W @ 130mm and threw them on. They are stiff, but I'm hoping that is just the new seals. If not ... a Plan B will have to be figured out.
The triple came from EBay. Took at trip to Huskydogggggg's Emporium of Goodness and he had a front wheel assembly that fit the bill. Thanks Steve!
The bars have been refinished and the "angled" bar clamps put back on.
The top end is now 1st-over and the barrel was put back straight. For some reason, the barrel was installed in the cylinder squint, maybe from the factory, maybe by a previous owner.
There is a quite a bit left to do, the biggest item is to figure out what to do about the shocks. Rebuild them myself, send them somewhere, or replace them with something else? There are no plans to do any serious vintage racing, although I'm pretty sure I'll be getting in on the local vintage MX thing, just treating the whole thing as more of a trail ride than a race.
