• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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Rokon versus Husqvarna automatic

the guys riding in that video is Mike Murphy and he is from the northeast. he does Al Snoops ride every year @ Ed's place in Warwick NY. he goes like hell on that thing ****************************************. they still make the trail breaker,but no RT anymore.
 
Mike is a very good friend of mine, he lives in Virginia now. He was a Rokon factory rider and the RT-2 he rides now is his old factory bike, it has some pretty special pieces in the clutch. The last few years he has bought out some very large inventories of parts for Rokon.
 
Here's a pic of my 74 Rokon that Mike Murphy built for me. Took a little while to adjust to it, but once I figured it out, I now question myself about why I waited so long to own one. Love this bike!
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Ah! Skoalman, the name I was searching for two days !!!
I remember you have a Rokon but didn't remember your name.
Can you tell more about your ROKON ?
Have you ride an Husky auto ?
What difference with ROKON ?
Is there a little motor brake when you cut the gas ?
Nice and clean bike. Can you tell me how much you paid it ?
Thanks
Michel
 
I never knew that rokon made a dirt bike. I've only seen there 2x2 drive sportsman model. Sometimes being different than the norm even though it's a great idea, even if it works can take many years to be accepted by the public. The first belt driven quads were like that. Now there awesome like the pockets on our pants. All my buddies frowned upon my Polaris quad but in the tight uneven woods is where the belt drive shines. I had one thumb on the throttle while the others were fanning there clutches and wicking the throttle.

The variable belt setup is being first used in the auto industry by Subaru. I have one and it's unbelievable. No shifting. My first experience with the snow mobile belt setup was with a '98 Polaris 400L sportsman 4x4 quad. Off road i feel it's unmatched. There's no shifting, no pre thinking about what gear to be in when that hill or rough area is coming up.

I had three husqvarna autos but was asked if I would sell them to a man who had one leg who wanted to ride. I did make the man's wishes to ride again come true. I feel I enjoyed riding so much and been so fortunate in my life it was time to give back. I always helped the neighborhood kids in keeping there rides running too.
 
I often wonder why husqvarna never tried the auto spring shoe operated clutch with a standard 6 speed tranny. Honda did it on there trikes and quads.
 
The Husky auto was originally developed for the Swedish military - It had to be rideable by soldiers wearing full winter clothing - hence no gear lever or clutch to fumble with. Later it was released onto the civilian market and slowly developed from there.
I can not comment on why the factory never released a 'combo' trans model - maybe they felt it defeated the purpose of an auto.
I suspect that the Rokon and Husky autos had enough flaws (however minor) to put people off autos in general and so maybe factories are not interested. Who knows how the Husky autos would have developed after 1988 but they were stopped when Husky was sold to Cagiva. I think that many riders today would not be interested in pulling out a transmission and regrooving brass clutch shoes every 10-15 hours of riding.

Rising an auto is definitely for us enthusiasts but it is great fun - just learn to accept some things as a fact of life, adjust your riding style (hard on the gas or hard on the brakes) and hang on for the fun.

The Rokon system is used in modern car CVT transmissions - I have been told not to touch them as they are not fully developed and are very expensive to repair.
 
Subaru first tried the cvt tranny a few years ago but it needed more development. My 2010 Subaru legacy has the cvt and it's hitting 70k miles flawless operation. My buddy is a factory trained Subaru tech and the feed back is they now have it right. When I get in my jeep and feel the tranny shifting I think something's wrong with it. The Subaru cvt is so smooth. I'm ready to get another one.

Here I been told the automatic tranny in the husqvarna would hold up for the aggressive rider.
But for the slow rider with the slow and fast with the tranny up shifting and down shifting constantly it would hammer itself apart. We had a factory rider who raced it here who had no problems with the auto tranny. Yet a beginner rider would have problems.
 
Nice, she's alive****************************************!!! Now we need a riding video?

I need to quarantine that bike it gave you the husqvarna fever....
 
Volvo was the first major car company to use a CVT transmission in the 1975 340, Subaru, Ford and Fiat all introduced their first cars with CVT in 1987.

The Rokon had some significant advantages and it performed well in the US and at the ISDT, but one thing that could not be avoided was it was very heavy.
 
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