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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1983 CR 500 Gearing

Bengt Husky

Bengt Husky

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi All,

I rode my 1983 CR 500 (4 speed) for the first time at the King Of the Castle meeting in the UK last weekend. My brother has ridden it a couple of times and said he thought it run out of puff on long straights.

As far as I remember the stock gearing was 13 front sprocket with a 53 rear. My bike has 14 front with a 54 rear.

I seemed to have to use first gear in a lot of the corners with the 14/54 combination. Im thinking of going back to the stock gearing that hopefully will allow me to use 2nd gear instead of 1st in corners.

Anyone else played with the sprocket combination on the 5 hundy...?

I am riding Moto cross mainly on tighter grassy tracks.

Cheers Steve
 
just drop to a 13 front and if the stars align, you shouldn't have to pull a link on the chain. I used to be able to swap fronts on my husky in 85 and also change the wheel base by putting a link in for fast work with the chain letting the wheel go right back in the axle slots or right up the front for tight stuff. other bikes ive struggled and had to settle for a wheel setting in the middle with it too far either way to get a link in or out:(
 
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