• 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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82 Husky dual shock as good as a modern bike? Okay maybe not, but still.

Watch the super cross videos. In a rutted sharp turn the front wheel is in the rutt while the rear wheel is climbing out of the rutt as its picking two lines it dumps the rider as he loses control. There is no one else near him. I believe there is a moment of frame to swing arm flex.

My '98 husqvarna 250 WR had the frame flex.

We need to stay within the centerline of the newer single shock bikes or we dump the bike. With the older twin shock bikes I can have my butt on the corner of the seat and it will still track straight,

The older twin suspension is good if it's setup correctly. The Olay problem with the older evolution husqvarnas was the brakes you can't go as fast as you want too with drum brakes.
 
Has anyone tried taking their brake shoes and wheels to be "arc'ed" by a shop? Is this correct...that they essentially bend the shoe to mate perfectly against the inside of the hub, thus producing better braking?
 
They don't actually bend the shoe, they put it in a machine that grinds them in the correct arc to suit the drum, much better contact area is achieved but you need to know that your drum is not worn too badly from inside to outside though. If you can have the drum ground and the shoes arced, you will have a great brake.....until it gets wet!
 
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There is a good thread from a few years back detailing the procedure that Chayzed was wring about. Worth looking into
 
It's fitting drum brake shoes to the arc of the drum. It's old school this was done on the old drum brake cars. Less brake in time more stopping power right away.
 
check the actuating arm If its a dls . the cams must be flat on the shoe at rest. a mate recently complained about no brakes and he hadn't even looked at that! needless to say, he suddenly had brakes...
 
Very true, a well set up dls will run with the best disk of the day.....until you have to cross water, then you have no brakes!
 
suprize said:
forget about brakes..how much fun is it to ride these old clunkers with a whole lot of young blokes on there 450 blingers who cant believe the old pox bucket passes em in the ruts on the back wheel..i love it!
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I haven't had that opportunity......yet.
 
I always found the husky drums will come back reasonably quickly as long as the "hill of death" isn't right over the river bank and you remember to drag the brakes a bit. hard to do at my age (the remember bit)...
 
With drum brakes the little kids with no flags on there bikes scare me when they pop out at trail intersections way behind there dad and brother. I never expected it and had two hands on the front drum brake lever while down shifting.
I wish they had a kiddie riding section at the T dam.

I learned to ride earlier before anyone shows up.
 
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