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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Which bike?

slosh said:
Is it possible that the drum brake on the WRX is more powerful than the disc on the WR? Any factual tests out there?
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Any brake will lock up a tire and toss you over the front-end if you squeeze it hard enough. I'm probably wrong, but it seems like "Breaking Power" would be a bit of a hard term to quantify. One might be easier to pull than another. The main advantage of the disc brake in my book is better heat dissipation, lower maintenance, and increased resistance to getting gummed up.
 
the dDLS brakes on a WRX are way better the the brembo disc set ups on 85/86 models. 87/88 was when they got good. in my opinion the early disc brakes are a complete joke.
 
NO such animal as a 1986 WRX BIG BILL . WRX was a 1 year only model in 250/400 cc.
 
The DLS front brake on my 85/WR400 when setup correctly and with a tiny mod is way better than the brembo disc setup that was on my 86/WR240.
I changed the 86 to a 87 left leg , twin spot caliper and Honda disc and now it stops.
Don't know how people rode them so fast when they wouldn't stop.
My 78/PE250 was way worse though.
 
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