• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

So what are the suspension upgrade options for a mid/late 80's Husky????

fran...k.;95604 said:
As for the fork end no mention of the steering stops that I detected and I think I read the whole thread.
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There's been so much interested if front end swaps for the old left kickers that there are several threads going. Steering stops have been covered in some of those.
 
Yet more great info, thanks Fran. Hadn't noted any bad reviews of the speedo's. The only rear shock I have at the moment is an 85 XC. Which naturally won't work with the 87 linkage. However, it looks like in 88 or 89, they went right back to the eyelet type bottom shock mounting style.

Thanks for the details...........,very helpful.
 
OK, been a while, and my project is still waiting on me to give it some focus. I do however now have some '98 RM TC Showa's on the way to see about upfitting to the bike. Still have to get triples, front brake and wheel, but have these gorgeous 49mm Showa's on the way.

Sure hope I can get them to work without to much trouble, as they are some sweet looking conventionals, and many seem to think the best forks out there. Ofcourse rivaled by the WP conventionals, and probably also the ultra scarce and high dollar Ohlins legs.

Should be fun................:thumbsup:
 
my 86 400wr Frankenbike has the complete front end setup from a 2001 honda cr250. forks, wheel, triples and honda bearings. i had a buddy of mine turn down the honda bearing races on a cylindrical grinder to match the husky headset tube. there was about a.015 difference between husky and honda . the honda ones being larger.
 
Interesting swap. Sounds like an easy one if that's all that had to be done, a little OD material removal from the races. Dig the 3 wheeler avatar pic too.

I'll also look into Works Performance in Canoga Park. Thanks for the pointer.

I've got 98 RM125 49mm Showa TC legs on the way. Which many consider the best forks made, kinda like the WP 50mm extreme's. Then I've also got some triples coming from a 96 RM, with the top one being an Applied with fat bar pro taper mounts and the gold pro tapers coming. Just hope I can actually use it, cuzz it looks like nice stuff. The bottom triple, is stock, but I also found a bottom one from a 98 KTM SX250 that is either an Applied part, or somebody elses as it is beefy. Thinking about getting it, but not sure the offset is the same as the RM stuff. Might have to buy and find out later if I can actually use or need to resell. Or may in the end need custom triples made. THe KTM stuff supposedly works, I'm just not hot on useing shim stock to make up the 1mm difference for a proper hold on the legs.

Lots O fun..........
 
Here are the legs I've got on the way for the project.

ShowaTC49mm.jpg



And here are the triples & bars. Not the best pic, but not mine.

RMTriples.jpg
 
Tricky Dick's Cagiva out of Shelbina Missouri did a handfull of Husqvarna trike conversions and presented them to the top brass @ Husqvarna. they were very interested in this market but the Ban on three wheeled ATV's put the whole deal in the dumper.
 
Very interesting info. I could actually see building one myself, as I'd like to move closer to the Oregon dunes. So a 3 wheeler is certainly in my future, and custom bikes on the dunes are very accepted and fun.

Just received the above triples & bars today. I'm needing to nail down the offset of the stock Suzuki RM 125/250's in 96 to 98.

And what does the offset number refer too???? Is that the handlebar mounts in relation to???? Or the stem center in relation to the fork legs center????

Saw some numbers, but have to go back and refresh my memory and jot down the numbers. Then I need to compare the Suzuki clamps I have, to some others.

Can't wait to receive the legs, cuzz just holding these triples up to the bike, I can see that those legs are gonna look burly as heck. Big time stout conventionals.
 
79 forks

hi i hav 40mm 83 forks on my 79 not tried them yet but was wondering how long the originall 79 forks are,so i can get some kind of starting point as to how high in triples i put them so i can start of as pretty standard hight, allso what are the upgrades for the 40mms apart from emanulaters and wht oil is best cheers.
 
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