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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Picking up a KX500 aluminum frame!!!

The carb is jetted all wrong but have a 40mm lectron on the way!! Bike is a wheelie machine but its controlled, twist throttle more for bigger wheelie less for smaller the front tire height is directly connected to the throttle tube.
This thing is geared to race desert and do 120mph so I have some other gearing coming as well as a FWW. But I think it'll be a fun one! Once I get everything on I'll have to break out the go pro!
 
Very ridable ice bike as compared to 1985 CR 500s. The reed valve makes it a smooth motor and always seems a bit faster than the CRs. Never should have sold my 85 CR500 ice racer. I've beaten guys w/Canadians but not w/Fournier's chisels. LOL.
 
Well unfortunately the guy in Indiana I bought this bike from was not as honest or have the integrity of the fellow cafe husky members on this site. I've discovered many faults to the motor and bike in general upon tare down of this bike. I was lied to my face which is unfortunate that a fellow rider would do that but I guess its a learning experience.
The motor is going off the Eric at forward motion for a top to bottom rebuild and rework.
I'm particular so many nuts and bolts have been added or replaced, wiring detangled and heat shinked along with many other little things that I had already known I would be redoing. It will be a very very nice bike when complete but I hope the seller has a shred of decency and coughs up half this motor bill as I've ask for. He claimed the bottom was rebuilt by the previous owner and that when they bought it, it was only ridden a hand full of times, he said it was jetted for winter and needed cleaned out which is why it didn't idle or run the best. Turns out bearings bad, spark plug was threaded 1/4 the way out and reeds were cracked along with a shot bottom end... Uhgg!
My fault for not walking away when I got a bad vib about the kid....
 
So just a little update, I decided to completely take the 500afc down to bolts and redo and rebuild it all! I've replaced every bearing in the motor and on the bike, refitted the original kx450f rads with some mods, got a Eric Gorr rebuild with the "MoBetter" porting and head mod, did a 14oz fly wheel weight, light coil, 40 mm lectron, hydro clutch, DEP pipe and silencer, flex bars for vibs, rewelded the frame, made a custom ignition box mount, new plastics, new shinny bits hear and there, setting it off with blue hoses and blue misc parts, and decided to powder the frame swing arm and sub frame white since its different lol!
It might end up in my living room as a display piece haha. I'm putting everything together over the next couple weeks!
Here are some early assembly pics with more to come IMG_20141002_164507021_HDR.jpg IMG_20141003_142454369.jpg IMG_20140817_120804371_HDR.jpg IMG_20141003_124409761_HDR.jpg
 
Thing is looking righteous****************************************

Def want to see some more progress pics. I'd love to own a 500 some day...
 
Good job, that looks like what the factories should still be building.


With as many aluminum frames that are out there from blowed up 4 strokes, I'm surprised more builds like this are not around.
 
I kinda want to try a RM chassis with a kx500 sometime! I've seen a KTM molly frame with a kx500 and it supposedly is easier than doing an aluminum frame??
With most of these builds you need to drill out the motor case for a larger swing arm bolt, modify the air box boot buy taking the old out making a reducer plate and bolting on a 2 stroke boot ( some use a cr250 boot with luck) , modify a cr500 pipe or try to buy a service honda pipe (difficult), move the nipples around on you rads to reroute hoses, and with aluminum frames cut the lower frame out and weld in new ones or with metal frames cut off engine tabs and reweld on. Think that's about it.
 
This thing has got even myself impressed! I laugh a little every time I see it!
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I did find a good use for those KTM brush guards that came with my FE350. kihilo grip tape custom made a template for me and should be getting that next week and waterless coolant is going in tomorrow and then finally, heat cycles!!! Can't wait to ride this beast!
 
Lol, yeah the white frame was all part of a vision that needed graphics to tie it all together! The grip tape for the frame will help tie it together as well! I do want to frame this and hang it on the wall haha but I gotta ride it!!!
 
I do have to give Rocky Mountain ATV a plug, these graphics came from them. I called the custom order number on the attack graphics web page and think I got the guys who actually make the graphics not some sales person so I liked that! I've used several brands of graphics and these were one of the nicest ones I've used, they fit real well and seem nice and heavy and stuck well. The other one I really like is decal works but the Rocky graphics were about $100 less...
 
Very striking with the white frame, kind of a Euro look. Best save it for the frozen lakes, or are you going to drag it through the mud?!!
 
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