• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My husky has a broken leg...

M

millenium7

Husqvarna
AA Class
Why are Europeans incapable of making side stands that work? The husky is no exception. Maybe they're there more as as a demonstration of "Our bikes are so light and easy to pick up, here watch it fall over and we'll prove it"

It seems most peoples complaint is theirs causes the bike to stand up too high. Mines the opposite, the stand, or frame, or both have worn and the stand folds forward further than it should. Just the right amount to make me hold both my hands up to it as I slowly back away and hope for the best

Any ideas on how to fix it? At the moment i'm thinking of taking the stand itself to an aluminium welder and having him tack on some extra material at the front edge. But maybe there's a better way? Not too keen on spending big bucks on an aftermarket stand. I just put one on the KTM, and while it's fantastic and finally achieves its intended purpose of not falling over, i'm still feeling the wallet pains of paying so much for a rotating metal stick
 
Not sure, but you must not be the only one. At least it's not what the title looked like. Thought you had busted one of your forks.
 
I thought it was a broken fork as well. I would just have some extra material welded to the stop on the frame, the steel would last longer than the Aluminum of the stand.
 
Preaching to the choir here! Never did find and aftermarket stand for the bike. Got tired of messing with it.

Picked up a drz 400 stand. Friend drilled out a 1/4" plate to slip over the spring tab on the frame. Bolt goes through the frame tab hole to secure the plate. DRZ stand bolts to the plate. Husky springs worked fine.

Been on since Sept 2014. Yeah it sticks out a little when up but it does hold the bike up.
 

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That's a damn good idea 2wheeler.

I consider the sidestand one of the worst "features" of the 310.
I have broken one too - I left it down whilst on the trailer and it snapped, but it was fairly worn before that.
I had it welded up and now have a spare - I got a "new" one from a UK dealer who had removed it as the bike was only doing enduro's and was not needed.

If the thing was at least functional, I could forgive it, but as millenium7 says, it isn't much good, unless you are on level, firm ground - and where do we get that from!!

My old CRF250 sidestand looked and was agricultural, but I could park the bike anywhere.

Mike
 
I've been using my 300exc for bush exploring lately, and i've only recently fit the pro moto billet stand but holy hell does a good stand make a world of difference. I ride along, stop, flick stand down and essentially just hop off the bike without a single care in the world. It feels so stable and rock solid that if I could ride 2 bikes at the same time i'd be leaning the husky against it. Glad I got it over the trailtech, friend had one and its still basically the same design as stock but with stronger material. The pro moto has its own bracket with sliding mechanism and the whole thing looks and feels solid as an anvil

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But its such a basic piece of equipment, I honestly don't know how Husky stuffed it up so badly (The stock KTM stand was no better either, it very much seems like a european thing)
The husky goes full retard with not only a flimsy piece of rubbish, but it also has to extend way further down part way through its stroke so you have to lean the bike AWAY from the ground as you flick the stand down. It just baffles the mind

Pro moto nor trailtech appear to make a stand for the husky, and even if they did i'm not crash hot on spending yet another $200 or more. So I can live with the retarded herp derp stand design if it can be made strong enough to actually do its job of holding the bike upright
 
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