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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1984 honda cr500 i just got!

yzrider

yzrider

Husqvarna
AA Class
So i found myself an aircooled cr500, one year engine.

Took it out for our first ride together to new jersey pine barrens, trails and sand pits type of riding. Deep sand in spots,

Bike was awesome. Impressed me. Both tires are very worn so was a little wiggly into turns and it never hooked coming out but i think the rear not hooking was good for me on the 500 it wasnt able to dig in and try to spit me off as easily.


It runs incredibly smooth totally linear bottom.to top and is of course crazy powerful. Third gear starts in deep sand were no issue at all!

I installed a decompression valve the first week i owned it as im 24 and for whatever reason only people who were around when these were in showrooms know how to start these monsters. Even following the tdc technique i just cant get it lit so the decomp helped me a ton i can at least start it now!


Things needing attention
Tires
Bars badly bent and terrible bend
Bolts do not stay tight at all it shakes them loose badly
Rear brake adjustment is screwy, if i tighten the nut on the rod enough that there is no play in the pedal it drags badly, adjust so no drag, theres an inch.or two or play in the pedal which is wayyy too much to deal with while standing into corners.

Im going to dial.it in for me, make the adjustments and changes and see how good we can make this old bear!

I also picked it.up for an absolute steal! No idea why th pictures are uploading 90 out. Stupid cell phone!
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Careful with starting that one.
the Kick back it can give when it fails to start can break your leg (seen it one time).

besides that operate it with a silk glove and have fun

who say you need power valves to get power out of an engine, simply get enough piston volume :D

The engine it self is bullet proof.

Robert-Jan
 
From what I know it will never hook up the way the smaller cc bikes do.
Even the 125's from that era never stop spinning.

Jersey "pine barrens"? As in the "Jersey Devil"?? I'd make sure you keep the spark plug clean, carry an extra sparkplug/wrench, and the gas tank topped. I watch all these mysteries. There's an area in October mountain in Lee,mass where we ride that I get a bad gut feeling about. It's in a pine grove. I would hammer through there non stop. I just get the willies every time we enter that area of the forest.
 
Nice. Those were fun bikes. I had a CR480 honda and many air cooled big bores back inthe day. I just resurrected this bike yesterday...

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One of the famous older riders rode a Yamaha wr on you tube. I think it's the ktm Roger decoster?
 
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