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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC husqvarna wishlist?????

Bigbill

Bigbill

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Consumer to the factory engineers feedback.

I would like to see a 400cc & a 500 cc electric start 2t dirt bike. The biggest problem years ago with the bigger bore bikes was not everyone could start them. With this new electric start technology that's being applied to 2t dirt bikes it opens the door to manufacturing the bigger bore 2t dirt bikes. It's time for the evolution of electric start dirt bikes to hit the big bores.

How soon we forget that big bores rock. It's time to pump up the cc's, add electric start and let the flying begin.
 
The biggest problem was starting them? Everyone I know that rode one was afraid of the power. How many guys, in an already limited sector of the market, with an interest in a niche brand, would be looking for a giant bore 2T? Enough to make it profitable? As much as I like excess for the sake of excess, I don't see it as being viable.
 
With evolution of the oil injection with the new Beta x trainer a 500cc big bore with oil injection and e start makes sense.

I guess there's no market for a bike that had the power to do everything with ease.
 
Even with a manual compression release that could be easily linked to the electric starting system. I wish they would do a big bore 500 xx 2 stroke again. I'd be in line for one.
 
You guys need to ride a well set up new 300 E-start... Husky, KTM, GG, Beta or Sherco. I'm sure a Husky TE300, modded out to TC300 spec, would really impress. I've heard from 2T engineers, that expansion chamber noise is the big problem with the really big bores.
 
Yaa Norman, you are right, less maintenance, less weight, more flickable, etc. etc. etc.

I don't race at all and cover some very diverse terrain with guys on bikes, sometimes quads and side by sides with us as well. I also ride to the trailhead 95+% of the time, street legally.

Maybe I should ride a 300 2 stroke but that's not what I want or I wouldn't of just bought a new FE501.

I've built over 200 hand rolled expansion chambers over the past 40 years, even the silencers that went with them. A greater or equal amount of that noise though on the bigger bores however, especially when heavily modified and ported comes from the engines Intake side. That's what you are going to here first. If you're standing there when one goes by.

I still need to get over to my shop and do a few pipes for my old Maico restoration one of these days. I just don't have the time with my job and my rental properties. I haven't had to do any chambers for about 7 years now. Everybody here now rides 4 strokes.
 
What I would like to see is if you want to continue selling me bikes get your KTM labal off of everything that is husqvarna.get off your power trip.…...my toolkit says KTM on one tool and husky on another....get your da\ KTM decals off my bike thank god if you bring your bike in from the garage and its 20 below zero and 70 in your house they fall off! Separate your ktm and husky packaging accordingly...... Don't try to deny your rival chapter two ever existed....considering they had a better bike then you....hire a separate husqvarna designer preferably and Italian and a swede to work in your factory allowing platform sharing to continue your fortune and allow further separating..... Make a husky 200. Stupid idiots.….don't worry their will be a limited six day version mid 15 or 16.…...allow optional suspension components to be hand picked...as marzocchi and ohlins…just charge don't be greedy with your wp stuff.....tm does it..….continue the good work in promoting the marque along with the traditional colors like the Italians should have stuck with.....
 
Definitely not a wisher-person here but I'd like(?) to live in a world with no more bike break-downs so I no longer have to hear about it and if you are not on your bike, its your choice and not a breakdown. Happy Trails to you... It's got a good beat and easy to dance to.
 
The KTM 380 2t model was and is a great engine. Anything beyond a 400 would be ridiculous imho. Estart is a must.
 
I must admit 500cc of 2 stroke is a bit excess. Had an 85 CR500 Honda for while but bought it to stuff the engine in a TRX250R Fourtrax. All I had to do was Mill the left case 3/8 and cut down the inner pivot sleeve and make new mounts and a new chamber and it was in. The 85 or 86 swing arm was steel and easily allowed this to be done. I had to fabricate an upper kicker from scratch after buying a new kicker knuckle as it kicks rearward.

I had LA sleeve do a custom sleeve with much larger bore. The cylinder initially had to have a few areas of the ports welded up which I did for it to get reported to alter the port locations to do a stroker. This was to correct the port timing to make it more favorable. Then had a shop in Cali that built an offset crank pin from the stock 79mm to 83mm. If I remember, it then used a non production custom piston and billet rod. I balanced the crank and tig welded the offset crankpin into the flywheels solid then balanced it again.Ported the transfers in the cases even to match the top end. It was crazy. I had to build a full tig welded round tube chromoly frame for it as it broke the stock frame in about 30 places. Especially the subframe.

It came out to like 573cc. I flat track and TT raced it at the Lodi cycle bowl. I ran a Mossbarger 10 pedal reed cage on it and the final port work was spectactular. The CR500 had no powervalves. so it was really pretty easy to get the pipe right for it, all hand rolled. This thing would grunt from the bottom up to a blurr. Vibration rods had to be welded into the ends of the handle bars to keep your arms from going numb. The thing would wheelie in all five gears in excess of 90mph. I shorthened the swingarm 1 inch. I ran a set of 12"wide 3 piece Champion beadlocks on the rear with hand grooved Hoosiers. A pair of Michelin XZX steel belted mini Honda car 10" radials on the front that were hand grooved into knobbies. It would just smoke em' on the pavement if you could keep the front end down. I road it in the dirt trail riding all the time too.

When I moved to AZ in 90'. I sold it to a Buddy and his little brother and they let some idiot ride it and he's still in a wheel chair today. That nut machine is long gone now.

Back on 2 wheels for years now. I think the quads back in the day made me a better feet up rider now.
 
Husky 2t wishlist... Every on on earth that drives a car gets one as std and MUST use them 4 months out of the year or they get blade runnered. Would stop alot of drivers texting and not seeing whilst looking at you!

Seriously tho i just wanna ride and if they can bring spares costs down bring it on!
 
I'd be happy if some of the parts were made in Sweden again. I'd also like to see some sort of a factory edition or six days type model.
 
Aaron platt said:
I'd be happy if some of the parts were made in Sweden again. I'd also like to see some sort of a factory edition or six days type model.
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id be happy if the whole damn bike was made in sweden again. we would have real husqvarnas for the first time since 1988. :cheers:
 
Doesn't ktm offer some sort of factory racing engine available to the masses now? SP has this in his hands along with some sort of 6-days type, 1-0ff bike ....He's got 2 big name brands to sell and keeping them in the same but slightly different niches might be a good idea. He'll get big PUB from any of this also ...



Seeing how the world is so crossed bred today, gonna be hard to find a Swede with a clean gene pool to get a real Husky.
 
ray_ray said:
Doesn't ktm offer some sort of factory racing engine available to the masses now? SP has this in his hands along with some sort of 6-days type, 1-0ff bike ....He's got 2 big name brands to sell and keeping them in the same but slightly different niches might be a good idea. He'll get big PUB from any of this also ...



Seeing how the world is so crossed bred today, gonna be hard to find a Swede with a clean gene pool to get a real Husky.
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Ktm factory services does engine/suspension work (same department that builds the race bikes) if thats what you're referring to.

Can't even say what would be on the wishlist...left kick would be a cool throw back :)
 
Aaron platt said:
I heard that the "factory services" engine shop couldn't keep up with all the race teams so they are no longer serving regular people.
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Well that sucks, really cool program that even an average guy could use. Nothing is more trick then an engine built up by the factory :)
 
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