• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Anyone Have Chrome/silver Graphics On A Newer Bike?

ARH

ARH

Husqvarna
AA Class
Soon-to-be new Husky owner here, my bike 2012 te250 should arrive here sometime in March. I'll still have some time to play around with it before the snow melts. I am thinking of doing some custom graphics (I used to do some vinyl stickers and decals for living, so I have the tools to do this) but I really want to change the black triangle part of the gas tank that shows from under the plastics to a silver/chrome color, kind of like the classic bikes. I got the idea from my husband's bike, it was (I believe) used in a photo shoot for Cycle World before we got it. It looks great from a distance and in the photos, but up close up you can see it is layered silver tape and I'm sure its not going to hold up well in the long run. This area has lots of angles so I don't think silver vinyl will work well. Has anyone else changed the black to chrome color? Could it be painted? Maybe this is why it is black, not silver to begin with. Anyone else have (or wish they had) chrome triangles on a newer bike?HuskyGraphics.jpg
 
Painted plastic just doesn't hold up, especially on dirt bikes, and especially on fuel tanks. Plastic tanks actually "breathe" miniscule amounts of fuel through the walls and over time this will destroy the paint. The early BMW R1100GS had a plastic tank, but they had to ditch them and go back to metal tanks because the paint would inevitably bubble.

That said, I really like that old-school look in the photo you posted. :thumbsup: I'd love me a set of those plastics. Something that might work for the triangle would be to mold a piece of silver/chrome plated plastic that sat between the shroud and the tank. It could be cost prohibitive though..
 
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