• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

All 2st Please post pictures of your 2 stroke bikes.

JAM said:
That looks great! Not sure about the height or angle of the bars…
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Hi the main issue i always had with the bike was i could never get it to turn and only being 165cm tall(ducks disease) was the reason, I removed the bar rises as it felt like riding with ape hangers and kept playing with the bar position to enable me to get the weight over the front to suit my style, also as i spend most of my riding on trials bikes I tend to ride standing up 80% of the time. You can also see in the pick I have had the seat shaved 30mm to help me touch the ground
 
freejack said:
Hi the main issue i always had with the bike was i could never get it to turn and only being 165cm tall(ducks disease) was the reason, I removed the bar rises as it felt like riding with ape hangers and kept playing with the bar position to enable me to get the weight over the front to suit my style, also as i spend most of my riding on trials bikes I tend to ride standing up 80% of the time. You can also see in the pick I have had the seat shaved 30mm to help me touch the ground
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Freejack, are the bars mount perches rubber mounted in the triple clamp? The rubber mounted ones, on the later models, can be turned 180' which moves the bars mounting point forward or back around 20mm. Might help with your issue. Does having the bars mounted like that make your wrists ache??

Also ensure you have 100mm rider sag and 30mm static sag on your rear suspension. These numbers have a big influence over how the bike's front feels. There's a helpful thread, posted under 2stroke thread index under suspension topics, started by vinduro that explains what I'm on about more clearly.
 
Oldscool said:
Freejack, are the bars mount perches rubber mounted in the triple clamp? The rubber mounted ones, on the later models, can be turned 180' which moves the bars mounting point forward or back around 20mm. Might help with your issue. Does having the bars mounted like that make your wrists ache??

Also ensure you have 100mm rider sag and 30mm static sag on your rear suspension. These numbers have a big influence over how the bike's front feels. There's a helpful thread, posted under 2stroke thread index under suspension topics, started by vinduro that explains what I'm on about more clearly.
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Thanks for that, yes i have turned the bar mounts around, I don't get sore arms at all (probably as i am so use to standing up), one thing i really like about the husky is the suspension and the re-valving of the forks has worked well, i will have a look at the sag on the back end.
 
Diggin' the green in the graphics.


I did similar when I ordered new stuff this year.

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Oldscool said:
Freejack, are the bars mount perches rubber mounted in the triple clamp? The rubber mounted ones, on the later models, can be turned 180' which moves the bars mounting point forward or back around 20mm. Might help with your issue. Does having the bars mounted like that make your wrists ache??

Also ensure you have 100mm rider sag and 30mm static sag on your rear suspension. These numbers have a big influence over how the bike's front feels. There's a helpful thread, posted under 2stroke thread index under suspension topics, started by vinduro that explains what I'm on about more clearly.
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Hi, did what you said, my mechanic friend had set the suspension up exactly how you said, I did back off the rear spring rate and made sure it is as plush as it can be aslo pulled the bars back a bit around 20mm at the grips, it worked well at the local cross country track - lots of deep sand rutted out & change of position switchbacks so was a good test, strange the bike is the best its ever been but its the old man riding the thing is the one who needs to get in shape lol.
 
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