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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

630 with retro styling

riz

riz

Husqvarna
AA Class
I got bored and did a photoshop mod
Husky Scrambler Project med.jpg

I went for minimum changes to the OEM parts thus meaning minimum (projected) costs:
1. lowered front forks,
2. fiberglass tank cover (that somehow integrates with the rad shrouds),
3. might need to cut a bit of the subframe ends for the short seat look. or have a long seat for passengers without having to cut it,
4. a side number from a paint can lid? :D
5. shortened cans
6. any old round headlight you got laying around
7. might need some dual sport tires for a scrambler look

I'll be honest, the pics of retro styled modern bikes on the internet has grown on me. I've built one before and is REALLLYYYY tempted to build another...but for now, photoshop is all I got :D

whaddaya think?
 
EricV said:
Yeah, don't do that. Step away from the mouse/keyboard. :) Just kidding, of course- experimenting as you have is all good fun.

They seemed, to me at least, to do a pretty good job of capturing the 70's heyday with the Baja concept bike:

http://www.gizmag.com/husqvarna-concept-baja/21181/
Click to expand...

hahaha yea luckily it's only photoshopped...been itching to chop it for real, but I got a year left in the warranty...decisions decisions

I really like the torque characteristics with how my bike is set up right now...will definitely make an awesome retro scrambler performance wise. My old build was with a 225 TTR motor, which, well, doesn't pull anywhere near as hard. so it was always missing something...the 630 on the other hand has great potential. For now guess I'll just be dreaming of it...or maybe start to learn fiberglassing while dreaming

EDIT: Link to my old build
http://www.supermotojunkie.com/showthread.php?125100-Commuter-bike-to-dirtbike-build&highlight=
 
Pretty!
Husqvarna%2BKrugger%2BMotorcycle%2B(7).jpg

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