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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

84 WR250 came home today

37722914_10217198436972431_6579565670390824960_n.jpg 37722914_10217198436972431_6579565670390824960_n.jpgEnded up switching classes to race my buddy. swapped a 1988 CR250 Honda front end on to my 83 IT250 Yammy. Man this bike is awesome.
 
They were not far off when the IT400 came out in 1976. The IT series moved up with all the other manufacturers to the point where you either rode a Husqvarna or an IT in offroad. The only IT that lagged was the IT175/200.
 
i dont know..those early monoshock it's wernt ideal in a number of terrain situations..in terms of a good enduro bike they had lots of great points to make life easy but i found them wierd to ride with that monoshock up top. the 465 motor was to brutal as well. the 250's had strange "bursts"of power in the rev range, their brakes were great drum and discs and once they dropped the shock, they also got a good even spread of go out of the motors and suddenly they were good. (i was a bike tart and would grab a ride on anything just too see how it compared to my bike) i always found myself looking to find a positive point when talking to early IT owners whereas after the K i was like maybee i should turn blue:thinking:
 
I'm working on dialing in this IT250. It's perfect for New England rocks and roots. Motor is strong through the range. It can chug down low, never stalls. The suspension is really good , stock that is. The CR forks are okay for what I do.
we have 4 classes, Retro is Disc/drum so that's why I modified it. Nice to have a front disc though. that was the one weak area, front drum sucks.
wasn't a better bike in 83 for the woods.
 
I have found the YZ conical hub with the DLS plate to be one of the finest non disc brakes ever. I am sure the 83 IT250 has that brake with the 43mm forks
 
dls's need a set up, its easy to have the cams knocked out of line giving that hard pull- no stopping feel. repack the muffler with steel wool, will give more bottom end. clean and match the ports nxt time the lid is off will also help the low end and some flexibility.
 
Steel wool? I've heard of people doing this but I wouldn't know what to buy, and I wonder if there is more of a spark risk?
 
possibly when you first install as it has a light oil on it and with fourstrokes i have experienced the "afterburner on" effect:eek: at night but it is more "porous" for the low end waves and has a mild effect on bottom end power. i have also done this on my kato 300 and coupled with the soft pv spring gives an excellent bottom end motor.
 
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