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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

250-500cc Starting the 300, method and solution :)

I think the best advice I could take from the above is a little bit of all of it and alot of what Rob has said.

Push/kick back in the direction of the rear axel. This worked everytime first time by moving forward on the bike and with one solid kick back she started without fail.

Thanks everyone :)
 
I started to chuckle...

I was thinking of the early left side kick starters...

I'm 6' 2'' and had this down pat. Off the bike and kick.

The old hare scramble starts were dead engine, standing in front of the bike, facing the bike, straddling the front tire with your
hands on the wrong side of the bars.

Getting around, starting the bike, getting it in gear and getting a hole shot was a feat second to none!

You'll get used to it...each bike is a little different.
 
I think the reason I was having so much trouble was because Im use to riding thumpers only except for the ktm300 which I only had a short while.
4 strokes have totally different kicking method and direction IMO.
 
I had hells own trouble kicking mine over when it was warm.
Now I just crack the throttle a tiny bit when I kick and it is first time all the time!
 
Im getting the Keihin carb and race head fitted in the next week as soon as it arrives and can only hope it will get even easier to start. :)
 
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