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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2018 Honda cr500? Really true?

WRONG Bill ! Harley built 10's of thousands of WLA Harley Flatheads for the War effort. there are more Flathead 45ci. Harleys in Europe than any other part of the world still today.
 
Just watched the viddy BigBill posted today. I like the idea of a David Bailey replica with 85HP! WOOF!:banana:
 
NCSteve said:
And also tall, leggy women with bleached hair :D
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Don’t forget the Russian vodka too. I just purchased the chocolate from Russia filled with Cognac and vodka. Yummy. The milk chocolate from Sweden and Norway is excellent too. Ever hear blind drunk doesn’t matter what she looks like. Lol
 
Husagren 500 2t works bikes. The 500cc isn’t dead it took a break for a few years.

Looks like my crystal ball is right.
 
They never died but are expensive and older 2t technology and who knows what the parts situation looks like. Maico and atk make a 700 2t in limited quantities. No crystal ball needed to see that big bore 2 strokes are out there.... with no e start, no efi, no parts support, and with a steep price tag. I like to ride mine not wait for parts. Hence the reason I bought the 2015 te300. To much down time waiting on parts for the swedes I have so I keep those for the occasional ride and beat on the new one. The 300 is fast enough to keep me happy.
 
Oh come on when I mentioned about the return of a 500cc cr bike you guys jumped on me and said no way it would happen. Looks like even the new company just starting up is jumping on the band wagon. Go husagren. Lol

Probably Honda and Yamaha would support there 500cc bikes with parts better, now if suzuki comes up with there rm500 again. Let the bash me begin. Lmao.

Your right about the parts support. The mom and pop old husky dealers did keep us alive with the Swedish iron for decades.
 
87husky500xc said:
They never died but are expensive and older 2t technology and who knows what the parts situation looks like. Maico and atk make a 700 2t in limited quantities. No crystal ball needed to see that big bore 2 strokes are out there.... with no e start, no efi, no parts support, and with a steep price tag. I like to ride mine not wait for parts. Hence the reason I bought the 2015 te300. To much down time waiting on parts for the swedes I have so I keep those for the occasional ride and beat on the new one. The 300 is fast enough to keep me happy.
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I dont see the Problem for sourcing Maico 500 2Stroke Parts- these Engines should be very similar to the Zabel Engines used for Sidecar MX.
 
Might not be an issue in Europe. But wait times and shipping here in the states could be an issue if you’re doing more that trail riding. But yes, from what I understand the maico/atk engines are zable based.
 
Bigbill said:
Husagren 500 2t works bikes. The 500cc isn’t dead it took a break for a few years.

Looks like my crystal ball is right.
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I went to their website and they are looking for investors,I saw nothing there about a 500cc two cycle engine or complete bike. Maybe it is a facebook phenomenon. That picture looks like a screen capture from a smart phone. I am just guessing facebook.

Honda experimented with some activated radical combustion years ago it was in the 400cc area. As far as I know Honda is the least likely to do a two cycle engine. Do they do anything two cycle at all now even in their outdoor power equipment? There are cr500 engines in a modernish aluminum frame available used. Well set up kx500 bikes as well for sale.
 
Miezie666 said:
I dont see the Problem for sourcing Maico 500 2Stroke Parts- these Engines should be very similar to the Zabel Engines used for Sidecar MX.
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I watched a youtube video of some guy going through all the ownership changes and various other changes for those zabel and similar with other label engine. You say 500 but they had quite a few other displacements. Beautiful case reed engine. I have only seen one the guy crashed but eventually I saw it was entered lately again.
 
Getting parts could be a problem. Parts wise the Honda or Yamaha might be the way to go. I remember life with no internet trying to find husky left kicker parts. I scoured the country. Been there once don’t want to do it again. Back in 98 the new husky parts were slim to none too. If I was a racer I’d buy two new bikes one for parts.
 
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