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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husky Junk rims

Sometimes, what's clear in 'my' head... is not so clear to others! Yes, the rims sold by huskyjunk.com... does anybody have experience with these? Good, bad, ??? Thx.
 
used chucks rims in black a couple of years back on a 1973 cr250 rebuild. Other than the spoke pattern difference to the acront rim they worked a treat and the price is good to. hope this helps giley.
 
vintage husqvarna,s have an odd spoke pattern. 3 spokes face backwards and two forwards. when i gave the husky junk rims to my wheel builder explained this and the modern rims have the normal two crossing over.
 
Yes. This is one of two issues I've been trying to sort through, with not quite as much help as I'd like from the various sellers. I'd ask: "Does this rim keep the original "Husky Odd" pattern," and the response would be a one-liner along the line of "It will work on your bike." Well, thank you, but how is that helpful? It will work... with stock pattern, or with a non-stock but more traditional pattern? Which, of course, could affect whether I use a set of stock length Husky spokes (off the shelf Buchanan or Vintage Husky) or have to go searching around for other lengths.

Do you ever feel like you're TRYING to give people money but they won't help you do it?

The other is spoke nipple size. These rims are listed as having .277" holes for the spoke nipples. While I'm very happy that this info is provided, Buchanan sells Husky sets with either .281" or .250" nipples. Answers were similar, "It fits your bike." Buchanan does mention that the spokes are for the original Husky Odd pattern, though. But when I called, I was transferred 3 times before anybody knew what I was asking about.

Using .250 nipples sounded very "incorrect" at first, but it only leaves roughly .013" per side around the body of the nipple, with PLENTY of overlap around the head. I'll probably go that way.
 
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