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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

A day in the life of: www.hva-factory.com

Our very first bikes were '71 & '72 Suzuki TS -185's, fun bikes. I started buying up all the suzuki to bikes. I had the TS-100, the TS-125, the TS-250. All most of these poor bikes needed was the carb cleaned. The ts-125 had a broken main shaft in the tranny. I had a extra parts 185 parts bike. The main shaft was 1/4" longer than the 125 main shaft were the needle bearing is. A quick cut in the lathe fixed that. I cut the piston by 1/8" that changes the port timing. We had that little 125 beating newer kx80 bikes in the straights, the kx80 shocks did fit the TS-125 perfect. Food for thought. For first bikes these were bullet proof. No computer CAD system to go cheaper in the design everything was over kill.

Funny Harley riders hate jap bikes but when they see my ts185 they say it was there first bike too. Lol

That's why I always say a new 2T bike with oil injection, fuel injection and e start is awesome. Most young kids have no clue what a ratio cup is. I catch them mixing by the color of the gas/oil mix. I'm no guru but I have to educate them or buy stocks in wiesco. Every kid new to bikes doesn't know what a mixing cup is. I moved to a new place and history repeats itself with the kids here too.

I have a 40 pack body but there's a six pack body trying to get out.
 
I discovered the reason this weekend of why we sell top brand Talon Sprockets! I had this 12t sample lying around and threw it on my spare bike. Big mistake!!! Luckily I had a Talon one on the van and managed to fit it in the 3 minutes I had at a time check...IMG_2635.jpg
 
hva-factory said:
I discovered the reason this weekend of why we sell top brand Talon Sprockets! I had this 12t sample lying around and threw it on my spare bike. Big mistake!!! Luckily I had a Talon one on the van and managed to fit it in the 3 minutes I had at a time check...View attachment 83629
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I never run a 12t due to angular issues, I always stay 14 and above, change the rear and have chains and sprockets last longer
but back to you, good news you had it and the time to change it
 
So glad we made a rapid prototype, as there was a small issue with the oil filler hole - that would have meant scrapping the first batch of castings! Easily resolved on the 3D model now prior to making a new casting tool....

The plastic one is good - but not strong enough to start a bike! I may polish it up so it goes completely clear for the Bike Show in Feb...

The bigger of the 2 types of 6 spring clutch ring gears does run super close to the inside, but it is good to know that it DOES miss!!!

Those of you who have been paying attention will notice it is sat on top of an original drawing in the last photo - drawn in Huskvarna in June 1976.

Andy.
 
Those of you who have been paying attention will notice it is sat on top of an original drawing in the last photo - drawn in Huskvarna in June 1976.

none of us were....

thats pretty cool really

( now watch all the "i knew that's " come out of the ether now:lol:)
 
suprize said:
Those of you who have been paying attention will notice it is sat on top of an original drawing in the last photo - drawn in Huskvarna in June 1976.

none of us were....

thats pretty cool really

( now watch all the "i knew that's " come out of the ether now:lol:)
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You're right, I missed it too.
 
Just a thought? Is there enough room to convert clutches to EFM auto clutch?
Not sure how much more is need since some of Husky's, he made a spacer plate.....
? Would be? Would this affect the shifter clearance.
Might not be possible? But just thought if you can make work?
 
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