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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

HUSQVARNA1 CR500

suprize said:
sounds like a std XC to me...they used the cr brake
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the 86 CR used a full floater, the 85 XC used a tab that connected to the swing arm but not a floater
the 86 used a tab like the 87-88, but not exactly sure at what point they went to the tab
 
brian bush said:
Hahaha Supersize, wouldn't I love to be 24 again!
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To be 24yo again I'm not sure if I would live through the crazy stuff we did twice. I remember driving through Torrington,ct past the husky dealer and seeing the brand new milk trucks parked out front. I pasted this dealer many times while going fishing. If I could only time travel back.
 
brian bush said:
2premo, I've chatted with you a few times on ktmtalk. I'm bbqkidd over there. Somehow I messed something up when I created my account here and my handle didn't take..
I love both 360's but for slightly different reasons. I think my pilot jet is a bit lean on my Husky because it is very hard to start and has a slight low end bog. I bought the Husky this summer and still need to sort that out. At present the KTM 360 has a More low-mid power, or at least the sensation of more because it hits a bit harder being a SX, motocross model. My KTM 360 will wheelie going uphill or downhill at will and is great fun! The Husky's character is a bit smoother, but it's a little off on the low end, I think due to the jetting Issue. The power of the Husky is plentiful on the needle and main jets.
On handling, I love stability (hence my questions about stability on the 500 xc vs wr) the Husky is my most stable bike at high speeds and I think it turns as well as the KTM. I also love the 6 speeds. The Ohlins shock and Zokes forks on th KTM 360 are my favorite suspenders of all my bikes but the Showas on my Husky are nearly as good for me. The clutches and shifting is excellent on both machines but the Brembo brakes on the KTM are better. KTM 360's are cheap in the used market because they have a reputation of being unjettable. A squish head mod and an aftermarket pipe with the proper stinger size solves the jetting issue. Mine had this done already when I bought it, so it was pretty turn key for me although the kid I bought it from still had the jetting messed up. Simply dropping the needle a few positions made it GAME ON! Ill try and give you a report once I get the netting sorted on the Husky. As background ill list my current bikes here because this sight doesnt provide enough space for all of my bikes. 1987 ktm250mxc, 1989ktm350exc, 1989ktm500mx project bike, 1990 ktm300exc, 1993 husky360wxe, 1996 ktm360sx, 1998 Honda XR400, 2004 KTM300exc. Plus I'm hoping to add a vintage Husky 500 and perhaps a Bultaco 370 Pursang in the future. Ya, I've got the illness!
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My '98 Husqvarna 250wr wouldn't stay jetted. Get it close and the next day it changes. Off the bottom she ran great in the upper rpms. It had a paper thin base gasket. I'm thinking it was too thin to offset the case machining.
 
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