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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

How do I get on?

G

Go_Navy

Husqvarna
B Class
I have a 1979 CR250. It sits up really high. I am short and old and can't really swing my leg over it.

Is there a trick to getting on one of these bikes easy.
 
You can raise the fork tubes to lower the front-end (watch for the fender hitting the wheel when fully compressed) and use a shorter shock on the rear, to lower the back-end.
Ron
 
Go_Navy;132556 said:
I have a 1979 CR250. It sits up really high. I am short and old and can't really swing my leg over it.
Is there a trick to getting on one of these bikes easy.
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With bike on side stand on firm ground:
Just step up on kick stand side peg with your left foot and swing your right leg over.
Dismount in reverse.
Plan ahead and look for frim ground when parking.
 
Use lighter boots. I'm not so tall (or young):busted:, and I like to use trials boots whenever I can because they weigh about half of what MX boots weigh. It's a lot easier to swing a 2.4 lb boot over your bike than one that weighs 4.6 lbs.
 
Fritzcoinc;132565 said:
With bike on side stand on firm ground:
Just step up on kick stand side peg with your left foot and swing your right leg over.
Dismount in reverse.
Plan ahead and look for frim ground when parking.
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I wouldn't reccomend using the side stand on these old Huskys to hold the bike while mounting as they are prone to breaking at the lug on the swingarm. I use a small piece of 4x4 to get me that extra height and then it should sink down so you can touch ground, Its tough when you have a 28 inch inseam.
 
Run at it .... and jump.
I once knew a girl who was going out with a really short lad. And that´s the leg over advice she she gave him.
 
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