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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1982 Husqvarna CR250

Greg: Can you provide some details on that nice chain guide? Cool look with the silver rims where originally there was gold... a bit of a throw-back to the 250 mag look, I likeee. It may just be the photo, but the spokes look HUGE! Did you take the spacer out of the shocks? Rear looks higher, the way I like it. Helps pull the forks in and make it turn (although I'm one of the weirdo's that think the original geometry turns just fine... from the rear wheel!). Good luck at the event!!

Norm: How 'bout a pic???
 
Picklito said:
Greg: Can you provide some details on that nice chain guide? Cool look with the silver rims where originally there was gold... a bit of a throw-back to the 250 mag look, I likeee. It may just be the photo, but the spokes look HUGE! Did you take the spacer out of the shocks? Rear looks higher, the way I like it. Helps pull the forks in and make it turn (although I'm one of the weirdo's that think the original geometry turns just fine... from the rear wheel!). Good luck at the event!!

Norm: How 'bout a pic???
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Chain guide is custom, went with Excel rims and stainless heavy gauge spokes. The Excel gold just isn't right on a Husky (to me). Shocks have been revalved, forks done, 18" rear wheel as well for better tire choices. Thanks for the compliment. Let's hope it goes as good as it looks...!
 
I bought it with the Excel rims and heavy duty stainless spokes.

At Unadilla yesterday, on the maiden voyage (I've not even owned it a week yet!), I fouled a plug right out of the gate in the first 40+ expert race... DNF. First 250 GP Expert, I was third. Second 40+ expert moto I won! Second 250 GP I fell while in fourth, salvaged an 8th for 6th overall. Bike worked well! Team Husky!
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gregbastek said:
I bought it with the Excel rims and heavy duty stainless spokes.

At Unadilla yesterday, on the maiden voyage (I've not even owned it a week yet!), I fouled a plug right out of the gate in the first 40+ expert race... DNF. First 250 GP Expert, I was third. Second 40+ expert moto I won! Second 250 GP I fell while in fourth, salvaged an 8th for 6th overall. Bike worked well! Team Husky!
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With all those different classes, sounds like you were not sitting around watching and waiting to race ... Are there any places on that track to log any air time? Congratulations :banana:on your results and some seat time will certainly pay dividends for you ...

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Whats the deal on those forks? Was Husky making forks back then?

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PS -- That bike would would fit in here well on the track and trails ... Not only on 'Any Sunday', but every day ... I had a '79 CR250 and it was ~just as stable on the trails as my new Huskies ... That bike was planted on its' line ...
 
As far as air time, you bet... I tried twice to clear the famous "SkyShot" tabletop in the back section of the track, but came up short both times. I heard the span is 90 feet but it seemed like 200! Landed hard on the flat both times and bottomed both ends. Then there's the Gravity Cavity going in and then flying out. It's fun!! See if you can spot me on the Husky in the first GP 250 Expert moto... I'm #41

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK0Gf6ZGtNM&feature=share
 
gregbastek said:
Ready for Unadilla!!!View attachment 27400
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OH-MY-GOD************************************************************************************************************************!!!

That is so freakin boss****************************************!

I didn't know CT had anything this cool....w/the excepton of Coast Guard Academy Hockey and the Eastern CT In-Line Hockey League of Groton, of course.
 
Ya, it's a very nice bike (not sure if it's 'boss' though!). For me, one of the nicest pieces is that gold CR silencer. Those are RREEAALLLLYY hard to find anymore. Good work man!
 
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