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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1979 WR 390

Then PLEASE ask him about racing the baja on a 1979 Husqvarna WR, he is a GREAT rider!
And let us know what he says!
 
So who could tell me what size rear tire. purchased tires come to find out 18" rear is to big. so leaves me to believe that tire size is metric. any help
 
I was thinking a 17", checked all other bike wheels but could not fig out what tire due to size. thanks where would one find a 5.50-17 trelleborg. Im a sponsored kenda rider and tires are inexpensive but they do not carry the size.
 
CR 360 Rider said:
I was thinking a 17", checked all other bike wheels but could not fig out what tire due to size. thanks where would one find a 5.50-17 trelleborg. Im a sponsored kenda rider and tires are inexpensive but they do not carry the size.
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I don't believe Trelleborg makes dirt bike tires anymore.
 
You can still buy 17" motocross tyres. Mainly used by the vintage sidecar guy's heer in the UK. I don't like the too much as the compound seems very hard.
I use mine for enduro, and fit the Mitas (was Trelleborg) 17" Army Special tyre.
 
I use the Volcanduro's (IRC) one of the few 17" you can still get.
My 1979 has a different rear wheel (stock), you can swap on 18", but the color of the gold rim is darker on a 1979 than the 18" wheels.(different lenght spokes)
If you only need tires go with the IRC's (and a WR, don't forget about the "pin's" in the rims, they just don't come off)

Team WR
 
it has been a while since I have posted any pictures, so I have some to post up. motor paint 2.jpg
We got the motor rebuilt and all cleaned up and ready to go back into the bike. The motor was stuck, but we found out that there was some calcium built up between the crank and the bottom of the case.
motor in bike.jpg
We got the motor put back in the bike and all bolted up. We also got some fresh tires put on.
exhaust +motor.jpg
We got the exhaust put on, front brake cable, and throttle cable on. We started the bike and she sounds amazing. I will upload a video of the bike running the next time we start it up.
 
You meant the splined starter shaft? I thought you were talking about the rugby thingy on the end of the kick lever.
 
Hey Mike, what day of the year can you ride a bike in Alaska? (hijack here) signed "geographically challenged Australian"
 
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