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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

86 500 xc

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kgi4x4 said:
Tooled the leather for my seat last night. It is far from perfect but it will work for me.
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Looks good that mudgaurd (UK version of a fender) making it look like an early short track (shale) speedway bike. I like the thinking out of the box on this one.
 
Started working on mounting the husky 21" front wheel and brakes fit the SX650 forks. Requires spacers and a bracket to adapt the be bro caliper to fork tube bolt patern as well as aline it. To dark to get a good pic now. Will post tomarow.
 
Wildebeest90210 said:
Looks right though, coming together well now. I reckon thats gonna be a blast to ride.
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husqyman said:
Looks good that mudgaurd (UK version of a fender) making it look like an early short track (shale) speedway bike. I like the thinking out of the box on this one.
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Thanks. Just trying to build something cheep, (for my pleasure of course) but also to inspire others. That's what got me started on this. Seeing bikes I like, mostly Harley's, but don't have a budget let alone low budget. So chop what u got.
 
Dirt tires will be swapped for a street tread of some sort but I growing attacked to the knobs.
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adam6402 said:
I really like the knobs and overall "rat" bike look. Great job so far!
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Thanks. Planning to spray it with Hot Rod flat black and do some pinstriping. May end up having to find a second rear wheel and have a dual sport knobby on one and mabey even a 4" Goodyear drag slick on the other. With knoby it would be fun to run dirt roads with. Well at least till the back can't handle it anymore!
 
suprize said:
stupid question ??? but will the wheel clear the pipe on full compression of the forks?
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When I strapped it in the back of the truck on Friday I sucked the straps down tight. Had good clearance they don't travel like the husqvarnas do.
firecrackerkid said:
No it won't! But if you do tell us where to send the get well card ;)
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Seriously tho we have a couple Forest highways up here. Crazy smooth for not being paved. Plus if u go all the way to the end u end up on an Indian reservation and thinks can get intresting quick, especial if u stop at the local watering hole.
 
I had a pipe guard on a 200 ktm that grabbed the wheel on full compression, made jumping erosion ditches interesting to say the least....
 
suprize said:
I had a pipe guard on a 200 ktm that grabbed the wheel on full compression, made jumping erosion ditches interesting to say the least....
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Yeah that could leave a mark. I decided to compress forks just to see what I had for clearance. Think I'm good to go with room to spare.
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I would look for a twin disc setup for the front. I have a complete front end of an 82 Yamaha 750 Maxim available later this spring.
 
jimspac said:
I would look for a twin disc setup for the front. I have a complete front end of an 82 Yamaha 750 Maxim available later this spring.
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May be interested but got a pile of stuff to dump money into before I can worrie about upgrades.
suprize said:
you could jump the grand canyon with that much clearance.....
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Yeah no issue. And it will gain more clearance when tires are swapped out. Enduro or street tread.
 
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