• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • 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.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

1987 Husqvarna WR 430/Suzuki 1996 RM fork swap

I just read this whole thing, and am really disappointed that the O.P. did
not share bearing sizes, and give a ride report. BTW. get yourself a set of WP 50mm magnum triples
off a 96'-98' KTM, bolt the fkr's on with the stock KTM bearings, insert Suzuki forks, and go.
Use beer cans for spacers, they don't slip. The KTM offset is very close to the 86' Husky. Much less than the RM triples.
 
what's the problem with old threads. I'm glad to find information. Isn't that why computers have memories?
VoodooHusky said:
I know this is an old thread but I thought I'd bump it. Anyone know if the fork stops on the frame worked with the Suzuki forks? The bottom triple on the Suzuki forks is raised and doesn't look like it will hit the factory stops. I'm also curious on the bearing sizes used.

Posted earlier.

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Steering stops only touch about 25%
Ive never done anything about it . But i never crash . Theyll survive normal use and a bike falling over etc
 
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