• 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.

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Why did husky put the kickers on left side?

Troy F Collins;23981 said:
Another question......wasnt it the Can -Ams that had the kicker and the gearlever together....like a shaft within a shaft ?? or maybe that was something else...????
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Yep......made it tough for the kicker to have enough "bite" on the knurls to not slip but not so tight as to bind the shifter. This makes finding one today thats not all "chewed" rare and why those parts cost so much and why no basket case Can Ams have kickers on them.

Joe
 
rajobigguy;23982 said:
Most European bikes had the gear shift on the right until the late 70's\early eighties.
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Your right...british bikes had RH shift...LH brake brake in the mid 70's


I know the flat trackers ran right hand shifters(always turning left)....and HD had some production sportsters in the 70's with right hand shift..which the DOT forced them to change to the left....
 
2whlrcr;24042 said:
I've ridden Huskys for a long time. Why the heck do they put the kickstart on the right side?:D
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"Cause that's were the clutch is, and the idler gear is right between the kickstarter and the clutch basket. That is "primary" kickstarting, or being able to start the bike in gear with the clutch in. The basket gear engages the crankshaft, while the part of the clutch that hooks the gear box to the crank is freed from the rest of the drive. I'll draw ya a pitcher, oh wait....I don't draw so good.:D
 
If the horse theory is correct then we would be kicking the thing over with both legs? At least the last time I got kicked, the horse used both legs. Or maybe I kicked her back with my left? Or was it my right? Makes sense though!

Did you ever do one of those knees holding front wheel starts on the old husky's. Then have the kickstarter kick back and make the engine start backwards? It was pretty amusing at a harescramble in Ohio when I went over the bars and the bike went backwards. I wasn't ready for that one. The only way I got it to do it again was to bumpstart it backwards on a small hill. It was a CR 390?

Or did you ever do the dump thing and start one with a cheap pair of work boots/tennis shoes? Have it kick back and lay you out on the driveway? My other half came out one time and I was hopping around the driveway swearing that I'd never do that again.

Typpyt
 
dartyppyt;24084 said:
If the horse theory is correct then we would be kicking the thing over with both legs? At least the last time I got kicked, the horse used both legs. Or maybe I kicked her back with my left? Or was it my right? Makes sense though!

Did you ever do one of those knees holding front wheel starts on the old husky's. Then have the kickstarter kick back and make the engine start backwards? It was pretty amusing at a harescramble in Ohio when I went over the bars and the bike went backwards. I wasn't ready for that one. The only way I got it to do it again was to bumpstart it backwards on a small hill. It was a CR 390?

Or did you ever do the dump thing and start one with a cheap pair of work boots/tennis shoes? Have it kick back and lay you out on the driveway? My other half came out one time and I was hopping around the driveway swearing that I'd never do that again.

Typpyt
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I had a Bultaco start backwards on me once. Very amusing to onlookers when you dump the clucth in reverse.:lol:
 
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