• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 1995 WR 360 Supermoto?

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belogerer

Husqvarna
C Class
Hello guys

its winter here so I have all the time i need to work on the bike. now its almost dissasembled to pieces and I was thinking....why not make a supermoto out of it?

what do you think about that? pros/cons? money are not an issue because I found very cheap sm tyres complete with brakes and the bike is street legal with headlight and signals.
 

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I am in the process of doing the same to my 2000 WR 360 after aquiring a genuine Husky SM kit which came with a 150 mm rear tyre.
I have had a major PITA with the chain rubbing against the 150 mm tyre badly and would have chewed it away rather quickly.
After speaking to my local dealer , who is a SM junkie, he recommended the 150 mm tyre as standard fare for Motard.
So far I have installed a 2 mm thinner chain, the same one that the CRFs run. This helped but the chain was still rubbing the tyre. I have also moved the rim/tyre off centre from the hub across towards the disc side another 2 mm by adjusting the spokes. The chain was now just touching the tyre.
I then shimmed the C/S sprocket out by 0.4mm and realigned the chain slider which has allowed the chain to clear the tyre by nearly 1 mm.
I might make up a spacer to sandwich in between the rear sprocket and the hub tio move the chain across so I can move the rim/tyre back to centre or a guide/plate to stop with chain slap when backing off.
I believe that a 140 mm tyre could be the answer together with the thinner chain
 
Id love to do it to my WR300. Im sure I'll run into a used set of wheels at some point.
Go for it man. Short trips/no highways Im sure itd be a blast
 
I doubt you could fit the 150 on a 250/300/360 without changing the swingarm of an SM model?
Dunlop make a 140R18 in a GPR series as well as Bridgestone BT45/BT92...if you could relace a 17 rear, then you'll have more variety of tyres to choose from.

Good luck!!
 
thought about it, not practical for my needs, 4 stroker for road two for dirrt i like it that way, would be very interested in the results let us know how it get along:thumbsup:
 
ohh me likey v much any more luck with the ofset on those wheels? 140 shoud be fine, what gearing are you running just out of curiosity?
 
For the moment I will go with standard wheels and mud tyres because I lost the oportunity to buy the cheap supermoto wheels. So I ordered standard new chain (DID x-ring) and standard JTS sprockets. Painting was made at a local shop by a friend in his spare time so I paid almost nothing for it - final amount for painting all metal parts will be around 60-70 euro. Soon as I have all parts powdercoated I will post pictures.
 
you're welcome....beer is on you :D


dumb/noob question...engine sprocket....it's a screw there... it's counterwise or the other way around?
 
righty tighty lefty loosy
if the engine is rotating on my 360 its doing the screw up so its a standard thread not reversed
 
belogerer said:
Hello guys

its winter here so I have all the time i need to work on the bike. now its almost dissasembled to pieces and I was thinking....why not make a supermoto out of it?

what do you think about that? pros/cons? money are not an issue because I found very cheap sm tyres complete with brakes and the bike is street legal with headlight and signals.
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I had my wr250 wheels offset by 5mm to allow the chain not to foul, it does not affect the handling.
 
work in progress...

other goodies than ones you can see in the pictures - brand new cdi, coil and not new but much better than dellorto i hope a pj keihin carburetor :)
 

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