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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

All 2st 2005 Wr Gets A New Tank And Plastic, Flattrack Look Build

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Dutch_Bobber

Husqvarna
B Class
Some of you probably have seen my previous project (click here if you haven't), and I've decided that my current WR will be overhauled this winter:

Nice bike huh?!? At first I thought, why not to sumo this thing with some nice 17" cast wheels I have laying around?
The rear wheel would fit (160/70/17 tyre) but somehow I don't like the look of those "tiny" wheels on my Husky...


So I've decided to skip the 17"' and now I am moving more and more towards the flat track look. I dig that look and I think it would look great on my "big" bike!
For the people who aren't familiar with that look:





I want the 'updated' look WR, so that means a different tank and other plastics.
This look is what I want for my bike:


But ofcourse it isn't a direct fit, so that means welding and grinding...
So I've stripped the old WR and grinded the places where I need to weld to fit a newer tank to the older frame.
Old frame, with already the relocated tabs for the tank mounts.

These tabs needs to go above the beam instead of below the beam for the newer tank



Also the newer tank needs a tab on the central beam itself



Before you say: "man, your central beam tab is off center!"
I know, that should be off center otherwise the tank doesn't fit nicely
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It almost looks like a bike again!

 
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