• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 08 WR250 Face Lift

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dartyppyt said:
Thanx, isn't it time for your thread and pics, or we just waiting for end results? Yours has to coming along nicely.
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I'll take some pictures after I get my graphics on.
If you are like me when I restore a bike, things I thought looked good in the begining, don't look as good next to the new parts. I say this because you say you aren't doing anything with the wheels. My powder coater was telling me how cool the hubs looked for his buddies YZ. He had cleaned up the rough cast in the center then coated the outside spoke area. Sounded good so I made mandrels to turn my hubs and give it a go.
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The remaining cast surface will be gloss black and the center cleared. You might think about it, if you decide to get into your wheels. The polished centers would look good on that shiney bike of yours.
Hub006.jpg
 
Xcuvator said:
I'll take some pictures after I get my graphics on.
If you are like me when I restore a bike, things I thought looked good in the begining, don't look as good next to the new parts. I say this because you say you aren't doing anything with the wheels. My powder coater was telling me how cool the hubs looked for his buddies YZ. He had cleaned up the rough cast in the center then coated the outside spoke area. Sounded good so I made mandrels to turn my hubs and give it a go.
Hub003.jpg

The remaining cast surface will be gloss black and the center cleared. You might think about it, if you decide to get into your wheels. The polished centers would look good on that shiney bike of yours.
Hub006.jpg
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Looks bad and will look badder yet. You need to be doing a thread. I am doing them brush polished like I did Evan's in 06 redo. Gonna be close but yours are lookin awesome! Gosh what i'd give for a lathe! PS: you need to be doing a thread on yours. If we had a spare set of rear hubs, we could get our wives to put one on our birthday cakes and put candles in the sprocket holes or in all the spoke holes. How cools that!
 
Awesome looking build.

Now get a the stock pipe off the 125 in the background and get 2-4 HP with any other pipe. :D
 
Xcuvator said:
I'll take some pictures after I get my graphics on.
If you are like me when I restore a bike, things I thought looked good in the begining, don't look as good next to the new parts. I say this because you say you aren't doing anything with the wheels. My powder coater was telling me how cool the hubs looked for his buddies YZ. He had cleaned up the rough cast in the center then coated the outside spoke area. Sounded good so I made mandrels to turn my hubs and give it a go.
Hub006.jpg
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The shinny 11 and up hubs form husky are very reasonable too.
 
Here are the latest pics. Had to polishe the shock reservoir to match the forks. Assembly has been slowed down since i had to completely dismantle the Husky CR 500 and split the cases. This is a little shot of the new graphics going on.

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