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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Holy grail of frames I found it......

it was a Yamaha gimmick in the 80's ...Yamaha were the masters of TLA's for their latest techno gadget on a bike. it was called ---wait for it...brain cells engaged, time machine set for 1983...broc glover in the add for the new yzingers with ... YEIS that's it! Yamaha Energy Induction System. Yamaha needed to go 1 up on the suspension acronyms - prolink, unitrak etc so they came up with this gem... I always thought a reed valve would render the gadget surplus to requirements.... ive yet to see an accurate dyno reading showing a real increase in power for the risk of a break in your induction systems integrity. I have seen sticks clip the bottles off bikes in the scrub causing weird running engines and long faces.

don't ask me who actually started the idea, its probably been around for years but the Yamaha marketers obviously thought it was ideal
 
Picklito great to see on a post again. Well Pick do you think that we can do that 28 or 28.5 angle with triple clamps?
Have some folks who can do that.

Could be the next thing I do for 81/82 430s.
 
Or is it how to make a holy frame into a holy grail frame? Sounds like another Monty Python / black knight movie?
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Wow, been a lot of years since I'd seen that. Favorite line in the movie "I'll bite your legs off" :eek:

And to think some people want to see this thread die. :excuseme:
 
GaryM said:
Picklito great to see on a post again. Well Pick do you think that we can do that 28 or 28.5 angle with triple clamps?
Have some folks who can do that.

Could be the next thing I do for 81/82 430s.
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Thanks GaryM. I don't see how that can be done with triple clamps? Changing trail, yes. Rake... is a hard geometry from the steering tube angle.
 
yup TNT models had eccentric bearing cups. tuck it in for flat track and let it out for Moto/Enduro. 1974 250 TNT track n trail.
 
can someone enlighten me...did the last a/c wr's in 84 have the tighter steering geometry or just the LC's??
 
All 84 models are 28.5 degrees. It is in the specs master located on this site.

Later years angles went to 27 degrees

81 82 etc. had average or 31 degrees of caster.
 
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