• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

83 CR500, here begineth the lesson

Have you firmed up the rebound on the rear?
when i tried my 510 on the dirt track the back end ITCs wallowed so much the back end passed the the front...
I built a set of shocks just for dirt track with a big spacer inside to shorten them and big thick rebound shims!squats well now. my forks are the short WR type pushed all the up in the triple clamps too..
Everything standard at the moment, rear shocks built for me at 1# stone. Will have to catch up with Andy at HVA as he was talking to HFS spain about cartridges for the front. Would sell an arm for a pair if/when they are available. Will work on suspension when I finally get on the road.
 
Thought i would throw a couple of pics of the mountain ride we went on last weekend, get some victorian nostalgia going for you!!
 
360 Kms for the two days, half hour in the dark on the home leg (note to self get a better light!) sorry there were no huskys on this ride... the guy on the yammie is buying orange this week!
 
360 Kms for the two days, half hour in the dark on the home leg (note to self get a better light!) sorry there were no huskys on this ride... the guy on the yammie is buying orange this week!
So , things to do list...
1.Finish husky
2.Finish GixerKTM
3.Rebuild KTM motard motor.
4. Emmigrate to austrailia.
 
Still waiting for the seat bloke to finish the recovering for the 400, if i give you his address, send a couple of those whirlybirds over and napalm his house..!. 3 months... its b#llsh$t.
Hey enjoy the rain, (they say people only live in England to prove it can be done!) Get your passport sorted, pack all the toys in a container and start paddling... you could be here by xmas!
 
Check out the first piccy, in the background you can see the ridge track coming down off the high plains.. man wha ta track, big erosion banks every 50 - 100 metres on a 30 degree downslope. unreal fun... we were half way down to the river when the pick was taken... its a great ride!
 
I got a brake ! Made up a new stainless torque arm, polished it to within an inch of its life. Holes courtesy of Matt T thanks.

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And st/st spacer on the rear with an MX tyre nut as a locknut(idea from Schimelaw I think)

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I got my front arm bead blasted but i might hit it with the buffer having seen those pics. looks good
 
Credit card taking a bashing towards the end of this project. Forgot speeding fine payments too, £280 to pay within 10 days ! Fuckers ! Thank god South African wine is still cheap ****************************************!!

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Hey ol mate, Where did you get your tensioner wheel? i turned one up from a tube of graphite impregnated nylon. $4 and i owe the neighbor a favor.
 
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