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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Need a thread about air cooled 4st stuff

The motor in my bike was "tired" but quite functional, blew a cloud of smoke on start up but cleaned out as it warmed up. was a bit rattly but not bad. the issue in stripping it was it would need headwork (they all do) seats valves springs, guides cam chain etc all cost a bomb and it isnt worth doing unless you can do it right. While a rebore and new piston rings etc arnt overly costly, at worst was a worn big end and then suddenly you have a 3+ k rebuild. Dont get me wrong, i was happy to do that as the bike was well worth it but i lost interest in it as a whole as it beat me up everytime i rode it and so sold it. the new owner has just recoed the motor so i would be interested to see how close to the mark i was with my guesstimate...
 
suprize said:
The motor in my bike was "tired" but quite functional, blew a cloud of smoke on start up but cleaned out as it warmed up. was a bit rattly but not bad. the issue in stripping it was it would need headwork (they all do) seats valves springs, guides cam chain etc all cost a bomb and it isnt worth doing unless you can do it right. While a rebore and new piston rings etc arnt overly costly, at worst was a worn big end and then suddenly you have a 3+ k rebuild. Dont get me wrong, i was happy to do that as the bike was well worth it but i lost interest in it as a whole as it beat me up everytime i rode it and so sold it. the new owner has just recoed the motor so i would be interested to see how close to the mark i was with my guesstimate...
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Thanks for your perspective after owning yours. I really can’t afford to go the distance with it so I’ve decided to stick it up for sale. If I don’t see a solid number I’ll go to plan B and stash it away to rebuild after the kids are grown and gone.
 
good plan....i am having a bit of sellers remorse as a mate had one from new and he gave it a quick reco after 2 seasons of racing. Mr McHanic was a wizard and he dialled in the cams and it was nothing short of sensational to ride...the motor had all that 4 stroke plonk of the bottom but now it hit 6 grand and just screamed like a 125 (with 60 HP) christ it went hard....i wanted to get him to sort mine out and a bit dissap'd i missed the opp:(
 
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