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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

MotoPat's WR430 old story/amazing machine

robertaccio

robertaccio

Husqvarna
Pro Class
The strength of the left kick 2 strokes!!
quoted from Ttalk
I don't recommend this,but I own a 1982 Husky 430 WR.Back in 95 I decided to to it in a 24 hour desert race.As expected with a bike of its age There were some issues during the rebuild.Long story short,we didn't get to break the bike in before the race.So the guy that built the motor was with us .He told me to just ride it.The only time the bike had on it was done the night before the race started(about 30 miles)on the race course.We ran the ratio at 28/1 for the whole race.We completed 818 miles in 24 hours.After that I did a bunch of vintage races,G.P.'s ect.Always running race gas and the ratio at 32/1.That bike ran for 11 years on the same piston.I put a new set of rings in it once ,but it ran well for 11 years(it still blows my mind).Another interesting fact,in the 24 hour race only 2 of the 30 or teams,only 2 teams broke existing records( many new ones were set).My team,and another team riding a KX250.Coincidentally they were pitted next to us.Also our bike was built when we arrived at the pits.Their's wasn't.I remember watching them finishing the build in the back of their box van.One of the riders on that team is a member of TT,Goes by the name of BajaBoundMoto.Just thought I'd share my experience.
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My response to the quote:
I know the owner/racer of that Husky (motoPat) we, all his "friends" were taking bets how long that bike would go in that first endurance race, I think I gave it a few hours, many were less lenient. That thing finished that D38 long distance event and kept right on going and going for other rides races and events,I even have some seat time on it as well. We were ashamed to have betted behind Pats back about how that thing would never go the distance. My 2013 Husky is not as reliable as Pats 82.... As for the other guy BBM, yea we all know him as well.
 
i have an 88 xc 250 i had the chance to buy new in 98 or so...that thing is still going strong on stock piston...it has well over 200 hours on it. granted i dont race, but im not babying it either...has always had klotz 40 to 1 and its been good to me, except for the cracked swinger pivots and the original SEM that was on it. it would fire up and run backwards every 10 kicks or so...no one believed it till they saw it!
 
I bought an '82 430WR from its original owner who was an A class enduro racer here in the South East. The bike has a lot of miles/time on it, but he said it was the original top end, even the rings. The bike has plenty of compression and runs exceptionally well, so I am not going to mess with it.
 
I had a 78 250 OR I bought new. Raced it many years (not every weekend) but never opened the motor.
After riding Barstow to Vegas in 1983 (172 miles), it finally got hard to start.
Gave it a fresh top end (ring gap was about an 1/8"-3/16") and gave the bike to my little brother.
A couple years later he missed a shift in a sand wash and the trans broke which destroyed the center cases.
No regrets!!
 
My 83 cr250 is still on the original piston. I did put a new ring in about 5 years ago and admit it improved the bottom end power considerably. My 88 Wr250 is still on its original ring but its done a lot less hours so no plans on treating it just yet.
 
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