• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

2007 500WR?

Great thread! Excellent builds all of them. The different riding locations illustrate where one frame style might be better than another. I ride in single track woods, rocks, hills, mud. Speeds are much slower than the riding in the video. A tighter turning bike is much easier to ride, ie. my 07 katoom 300. BUT the Husky doesn't get knocked off course as easily. I would submit the older Husky geometry is well suited for more open riding. Looking forward to thrashing the old girl in the woods when she's reassembled.

Tech question- how much work did it take to graft a modern Husky front end onto the older farme?
 
I see why...I always loved the blue seat with the white on the rear. I wish my bike came like that stock. I've been torn on what swing arm stickers to put on my 88. Technically it's a WR but has a CR sub frame, tank suspension etc.. always liked the cross country s/a stickers. It's just a play ride bike anyway.
 
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2premo said:
Which master cylinder did you use and what bracket do you refer to?
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I used a brembo master cylinder from a 90's era bike. The bracket to attach the master cylinder simply bolts on over the swinger bolt. It was cut from flat stock. I'll get a pic of it.
 
2premo said:
there is no argument the 87 works well at almost everything

but there's always that one thing,,,,,

ergonomics on a new bike are an improvement

the newer bikes feel narrower and easier to move around on in general
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I agree that the '87-88 ergos were wide, but the chassis is actually much narrower in the foot peg area by about 2" than modern stuff. The '86 with the smaller 9.5 litre mx/Enduro tank is actually much narrower everywhere than my 2009 WR300. However with the older bikes you sat in them, as opposed to sitting on top of the modern bikes. I raced a 1986 430 Auto back in the day, went to the Six-Days in Italy in '86 aboard a 1987...couldn't stand the ergos...too wide and tall, totally different feel. Raced the '86 again in '87. Never did own a '87 or '88. The '87 was build for 6'-8" Sven-Eric Jonsson and he actually made it look small. The only thing better on the '87 was the 2-piston front brake and the revised rear suspension linkage. IMHA!
No argument that they were more stable than bikes now.
 
Here's how I did my rear disc brake from a 1998 wr250, chain is on the proper(right side).
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Palito said:
Here's how I did my rear disc brake from a 1998 wr250, chain is on the proper(right side).
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That looks like a 1992 swing arm and rear wheel set up along with a 1996 front end. I know the front was a bolt on but what was required for the rear to work ?
 
Like the caption says, the front end and rear wheel with disc brake are off a 1998 wr250. Front end bolted right on. Rear hub was shaved on the disc and sprocket mounts to align the chain and make it fit in the '86 swing arm which is narrower. The rear disc brake mounting plate was also shaved down to fit and the bearings bushed to use the smaller '86 axle. That is the original '86 swing arm, a threaded lug was welded to hold a brake stay to hold the caliper mounting plate, you can see the welded modification just in front of the chain adjuster bolt. The 1998 WR250 these parts came from was a rare bike, I don't think many were brought into North America (if any), it was a transition year for US distribution ownership. The 1998 bike came from Australia, a friend that was living there brought it back with him. BTW this style of front and rear brake calipers was used right up to the last of the Italian made Huskys in 2014.
 
Couldn't believe my eyes when i saw this thing a few months ago on facebook selling group, it is bloody awesome!!
 
Darrel78 said:
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I used a brembo master cylinder from a 90's era bike. The bracket to attach the master cylinder simply bolts on over the swinger bolt. It was cut from flat stock. I'll get a pic of it.
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The large round hole locates over the swinger nut while the bolt for the pedal secures the bracket. The bracket thickness locates the master cylinder to align the pedal operating rod. IMG_1150.PNG
 
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