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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Ohlins Spacing

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First post as I am a new left kicker owner. I just purchased an 82 250XC. From the rear, the shocks appear to be at an angle spaced more at the swingarm mounts than at the top mounts. Is this correct? I don't know how to post pics here, but I would love to email someone a pic to host for me or comment on. Thank you in advance
 
Welcome ! and yes it's correct the XC upper shock mounts are set in slightly.
 

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yup, i believe its part of husky accomplishing rising rate suspension with no linkage. thats why the shocks have heim joints
 
justintendo said:
yup, i believe its part of husky accomplishing rising rate suspension with no linkage. thats why the shocks have heim joints
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The shocks have heim joints because when the suspension collapses they are not in a straight line. They have to pivot. If they were in a straight line on wheel travel the bike would be immensely wide at the upper shock mount.
 
yes, the heims keep them from binding, and keeping the bike narrower at the top..the heims arent directly responsible for anything else (other than being smooth). sorry i wasnt being clear there.
 
First ride on the 250XC today on an average hare scramble loop. Sand, open pasture, single track trails - what an incredible machine. I can't believe how good the stock suspension is on this bike. After some needle clip carb tuning I have the low speed sorted perfectly. I think I'm a bit rich on the main, but didn't have any jets to experiment with today. I thought the bike was a tractor and would chug from idle with almost no throttle without stalling. Similar to my Honda XR, in that respect. I'm a short guy at 5'5" so I might start looking for a WR swingarm to bring the seat height down. Will the XC shocks that I have now work with a WR arm without modification? I want to go back to stock, if that it turns out that I don't get along with the change. Great bike and glad to be here
 
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