• 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.

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510 1985 TE- a bit of a ride

Nice 4t the old gal sounds great. The run down the straights was awesome. I like the 4t too.
 
The video showed the snap and the speed. I never rode the 4t 510 husqvarna but the video came across as it being not your normal 4t ride of that era.

I feel like a parrot on your shoulder, I'm ducking the branches as they slap you. I think the video is awesome.
 
I rode a sister bike to this in 1984. it was slightly fettled by a seriously good tuner. I believe he dialled the cam and jetted it. it was seriously fast. much faster than this one. it had a top end like a 125, just as this bike signs off and wants you to up shift, his would loft the front wheel and run up another 4000 revs or so. it ate 600xrs in a straight line and 500 2/ were a match. he had a mate with a 500 ktm and they were always running drags and the big husky would match the kato then outrun him with just a bit more top speed.
Plan is to tear this down and check everything over and see If I can con him into some shed time.:D

check out the utube channel "riders in the scrub" there are a few more vids on there, mainly on the wr 400.
 
you have to keep the twin muffler setup at all cost. i dont care what style of silencer, they just have a great look on the 510
 
my favourite bit! I made new end caps to keep the totally original ones intact as almost all were sliced off from new due to there being quite restrictive;)
 
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