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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rebuilding a1985 cr500... got some questions

can said:
I have a pretty big flashlight that I modified from stock which had about 3000 actual lumens, it now has about 10,000 actual lumens. It has probably about the same amount of light as 2 or 3 modern cars headlights combined.
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WOW
any pictures, that sounds pretty cool
 
2premo said:
nice
figured out a way to mount it?
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No, This light I think is too big for a dirt bike.
It is really a ridiculous show off light.
It amazes 100% of the people that have seen it in person.
Actually the stock 3000 lumen light in the first picture also amazes 100% of the people that have seen it in person.
 
to the o.p., i think the answer to lighting with a motoplat is a a rectifier for dc output and led lighting. baja designs and other places sell an affordable regulator/rectifier.
 
halogen led down lights dome in convenient sizing and wattages and outputs . with heat sink and mounts built in etc . i used to use some for downhill mtb at night
 
Thank you all so much. I have seen those exact rectifiers on ebay before. I will purchase one and report back with how the leds work.
 
TahoeHusky said:
Thank you all so much. I have seen those exact rectifiers on ebay before. I will purchase one and report back with how the leds work.
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awesome, i have been playing around with this in my head for quite awhile now...i have a bunch of light and headlight shells....but i honestly have no reason for a light, other than being seen on 2way trails. let us know how it works!
 
Update: hi all. Just did a mass ebay order. I ordered my regulator rectifier, and a 30 watt 9 inch led bar along with headlight brackets, and switches. I decided to go with a small battery setup so I dont get light drop when Im at idle. I went with a small 12v 2000 mah NiMh pack to power the light then the motoplat should keep the battery topped off all the time with the rectified DC. I will update more when I get these parts in a few days. Also made a homemade cutting board skid plate. Turned out good if anyone is interested. Tons of pics to come.
 
Pics everyone. Got new foot pegs springs since one was broken. As well as new rear wheel bearings since when I went fo change sprockets I found them siezed. New right side number plate.20150408_171252.jpg 20150408_171302.jpg 20150408_171323.jpg 20150408_171817.jpg
 
Cardboard template for cutting board skid plate. Used a jigsaw and it cut it like butter. By the way, the wiring is all exposed because I stripped the housing so I can rig my lights.20150419_131117.jpg 20150419_131126.jpg 20150419_132227.jpg 20150419_133928.jpg
 
We heated the board to bend it just a bit. Then fitted it rough with zip ties. Then I trimmed it smooth and used metal hose clamps and tightened them so it aint goin no where. Gave pretty decent coverage and the pipe coming down with its existing thick metal guard meets the plate and covers the whole underside. Will update more when I recieve my light components.20150419_134738.jpg 20150419_170809.jpg 20150420_132434.jpg 20150420_194230.jpg
 
Im pretty happy with it. Cheap and probably pretty damn durable. I ride in rocky terrain and felt like I was asking for trouble without a skid, so Im stoked.20150420_194239.jpg 20150420_194251.jpg
 
Do yourself a favor and dump the stock foot pegs. HVA, Husqvarna-parts and a couple other internet retailers specializing in huskies have nice options. You can find HVA foot pegs on eBay or at DCVMX here in the U.S.
 
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