• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 WR400

disonny said:
It was on the bike when I got it. It's actually too long. They added about an inch to it and the cable is angled from the casing. I'm going to change it one of these days
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they were probably trying to make the pull a lil easier...you probably know but any liquid cooled swede will be a good replacement arm.
 
justintendo said:
they were probably trying to make the pull a lil easier...you probably know but any liquid cooled swede will be a good replacement arm.
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I've got to say, you've got an eye Justintendo, I never would've noticed that (on the picture at least) if you hadn't picked it up.
The irony to me is that both of my [running bikes'] clutch hand levers are shortened.
 
Eric The Leg said:
I've got to say, you've got an eye Justintendo, I never would've noticed that (on the picture at least) if you hadn't picked it up.
The irony to me is that both of my [running bikes'] clutch hand levers are shortened.
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shorty clutch lever would be rough. i dont even like another lever/perch that isnt the full length magura power lever. nothing else gives the leverage and a full engagement of the clutch.
 
justintendo said:
shorty clutch lever would be rough. i dont even like another lever/perch that isnt the full length magura power lever. nothing else gives the leverage and a full engagement of the clutch.
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Guy I bought my '86 from was a giant of a man. His advice on clutching was to do it as little as possible and speed shift. He didn't need leverage to pull the clutch, and had a stated preference for doing it as little as possible. I'm a pretty big guy (Defensive Tackle in college) and it never crossed my mind that pulling the clutch was 'hard'.
Guy I bought my '85 from was a bit of a mystery to me. Seemed like an MX-er, the type who might be concerned about things like ease of clutch-pull, but then again, the bike had sat so long the wheels wouldn't spin, so he might not have actually ridden it.
 
Eric The Leg said:
Guy I bought my '86 from was a giant of a man. His advice on clutching was to do it as little as possible and speed shift. He didn't need leverage to pull the clutch, and had a stated preference for doing it as little as possible. I'm a pretty big guy (Defensive Tackle in college) and it never crossed my mind that pulling the clutch was 'hard'.
Guy I bought my '85 from was a bit of a mystery to me. Seemed like an MX-er, the type who might be concerned about things like ease of clutch-pull, but then again, the bike had sat so long the wheels wouldn't spin, so he might not have actually ridden it.
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i can understand...i only use the clutch to downshift, i just let off the gas to upshift. still gets a workout in the woods at times!
 
Before I tore it down I got a ride on it and the clutch pull was very easy and smooth. I'm not sure how much it would wear the cable coming into the casing at an angle. Most of my clutch use is in braking or cornering. I usually never use it for shifting once I start.
 
disonny said:
Before I tore it down I got a ride on it and the clutch pull was very easy and smooth. I'm not sure how much it would wear the cable coming into the casing at an angle. Most of my clutch use is in braking or cornering. I usually never use it for shifting once I start.
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you dont use it to down shift?
 
I've almost always down shift without it. On my street bike I do clutch down shifting but hardly ever up shifting.
 
Same here, never use the clutch for shifting. I work the throttle for changing gears.

Your bike is going to be very nice, great work. ;)

Steve
 
Admittedly, I go both ways. I tend to clutch on the way down, I've got a habit of lugging a bit through turns and letting the engine pull me into the straight-aways, If I slow to the point of shifting, I'll jump down two gears. That just works better with the clutch. Plus, as Justintendo points out, speed shifting on the way down just doesn't feel the same as doing it on the way up. On the way up, it depends how hard I'm accelerating. If I'm really hitting it I'll bump the clutch between the gears, when riding civilized, the clutch is entirely optional.
 
no clutch once underway unless you hit tight going, just wave your foot at the lever and the husky will look after the rest, I actually blip the throttle when down shifting:thinking:no idea if its effective
 
suprize said:
no clutch once underway unless you hit tight going, just wave your foot at the lever and the husky will look after the rest, I actually blip the throttle when down shifting:thinking:no idea if its effective
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well yeah, thats called rev matching. if you arent using a clutch to down shift, getting the rpm up before downshifting gets the engine ready for the lower gear and makes things smoother for sure. i do it on my streetbike and car if im not driving easy..
 
suprize said:
no clutch once underway unless you hit tight going, just wave your foot at the lever and the husky will look after the rest, I actually blip the throttle when down shifting:thinking:no idea if its effective
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I only use the clutch to get off the line or when i need to drop several gears at a time while under heavy braking, like 6th to 2nd coming into a hairpin. Blipping the throttle on the downshift does make it easier on the gearbox (less of that crunchy noise & feel) even when i am using the clutch. Back in the day we called it "crash boxing" because once in a while we'd find that false neutral between gears and get this huge ...CRASH... when we gave up on the shift, pulled in the clutch, waited for things to settle down a bit and pull it back into gear (regardless of which direction we moved the shift lever.) Bottom line: Timing is everything!
 
Eric The Leg said:
You know it takes more than just removing one side to make it a mono, right!?
;)
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tell that to husky :rolleyes:
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those prototypes are pure porn, lol..
 
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