• 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.

    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

'77CR250 racer resto

Houredout401 said:
Double checked again and there is no way that my kicker will clear the shifter. I cant imagine that husky designed it this way, so wondering if I have a mismatched clutch cover/shifter shaft/kicker shaft. Anyone with a 76 or 77 that can check their kickers, that would be great.
Click to expand...

Are you checking this with the motor mounted in the frame? and are the foot pegs bolted onto the frame? Got any pictures?
 
Here's part of a 76 360 test, note the part in the article, where it says the kicker hits the shifter, some time kicking it into gear...

4_76_MC_lackey_360_pg4of5.jpg
 
DON'T start it with the arch of your foot ! I use the ball just level with my toes. Works every time and my foot does not touch the gear change. I fail to see how the kick lever can come around and hit the gear change when the foot peg is fitted.
 
Yes, motor in frame and footpeg fitted - tired both an OEM peg and the HVA aftermarket and it hits. Good to know that it was a known bug and not some sort of mis-matched stuff on my bike, I've had enough of sorting out PO issues on this one. Guess that is why they changed the kicker in '78. I'll add the nicely re-plated and refurbished '77 kicker to my box of extra parts...
 
Houredout401 said:
Yes, motor in frame and footpeg fitted - tired both an OEM peg and the HVA aftermarket and it hits. Good to know that it was a known bug and not some sort of mis-matched stuff on my bike, I've had enough of sorting out PO issues on this one. Guess that is why they changed the kicker in '78. I'll add the nicely re-plated and refurbished '77 kicker to my box of extra parts...
Click to expand...

You wont regret the 78 style kickstarter. My Right big toe still hurts from my 76 WR250 kicking me back when it was new.
 
Sorry to hijack, but any chance of seeing more of that 76 360 WR magazine test ?.
Never seen it before :)
 
Man, that looks nice! I think the Evo twin shockers look the best! Will this baby be at one the upcoming vintage events? :cheers: New England is close to some of them.
 
Eurofreak - this one will see light duty in some NETRA vintage events, but I am interested in making an AHARMA race. I'm not a good enough rider to compete in the EVO class on this bike, it would be up against full travel Japanese stuff.

I would have to lose the piggyback shocks, but I thought there was a non-EVO class for the '77 Husky's provided you did not increase travel from OEM?
 
In the AHRMA class depending on the year requirement the piggyback Ohlins would not likely qualify for the 77 CR and even the remote reservoir Ohlins came out for 79 models might not qualify either. Read the rulebook carefully. They are stringent.

You might have less requirements in NETRA Vintage Hare Scrambles because last I checked the class your bike falls into runs from 1975 - 1983ish. Lot of over and under competition there
 
If you hit one I'm at we can race- I'm not competitive either in MotoX.
your bike falls into runs from 1975 - 1983ish. Lot of over and under competition there
Click to expand...
I'm thinking the AHRMA hare scrambles is the ticket.
 
WOW, Nice :thumbsup: that reminds me of my 78 250CR, I really like that bike, but she's gone :banghead:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top