Just picked up a '86 500CR to add to the Husky clan. Anyone have any past history with them ? Haven't found very much info on them. I've heard that most of the complaints from bitd revolved around the grim forks and some serious vibration. Have a nice set of 43mm forks off a '87 Honda CR250 to cure the front-end. Any input is appreciated. Ride safe---Rhett
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 500CR any good ?
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fatboycrash
Husqvarna
AA Class
No mate.... garbage bike. Shocking!! You've been sold a pup!! Where do ya live? I'll come 'round and take it away and dump it for ya. Seems the only decent thing to do....... 
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Husky37
Husqvarna
AA Class
Looks clean enough... Is that how it arrived?
I think that they did try and do something for the vibration that the '85 suffered from but still might be too much.
With the standard forks I felt that to get it to turn you had to be agressive.... you just couldn't 'ride' it round. Better forks with the front end dropped a smige might work better.
Detail the Honda fork change. I'm sure others will be interested in that.
Stu
I think that they did try and do something for the vibration that the '85 suffered from but still might be too much.
With the standard forks I felt that to get it to turn you had to be agressive.... you just couldn't 'ride' it round. Better forks with the front end dropped a smige might work better.
Detail the Honda fork change. I'm sure others will be interested in that.
Stu
Pull up the forks
Yes, pull up the forks, say 1/2" , then play with the forks action,fork oil weight - preload spacers. You'd be surprised how much better it will
handle, but you still have to steer these bikes with the rear wheel.
Learn to turn the bike with the 500 power, the late model bike don't turn like the 80's models. And of course it will still vibrate like a paint shaker
though, so keep an eye on cylinder head bolts & upper rad to head hose as they can break under vibes.
Nice looking bike
Husky John
Yes, pull up the forks, say 1/2" , then play with the forks action,fork oil weight - preload spacers. You'd be surprised how much better it will
handle, but you still have to steer these bikes with the rear wheel.
Learn to turn the bike with the 500 power, the late model bike don't turn like the 80's models. And of course it will still vibrate like a paint shaker
though, so keep an eye on cylinder head bolts & upper rad to head hose as they can break under vibes.Nice looking bike
Husky John