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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

International Three Day Enduro - Elba (Italy) October 2015

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There is only one place to be in October this year and that is the island of Elba off the coast of Italy for the ITDE.

All the details and entries are now out on their website:

www.itde2015.com

Get you entry in NOW****************************************

See you there.


Andy.
 
Cool! Just paid for my entry and for the UK team entry too...

Obviously we will have factory support for ALL Husky riders - but please don't ask me for bikes****************************************

Andy
 
nice, what mods needed done to adapt the gas gas triple tree?


I'll put a couple of photo's on tomorrow of one I've just done. It's not a massive job but certainly worth while. An easier method is to use the 45mm conventional Forks and triple clamp from the late 90's Husky's, I believe they are identical to Marzocchi's, and these bolt straight on.
 
you are probably correct, but thanks for documenting that these will match up as well..


GasGas triple clamps after Husky stem installed, there is one spacer which goes under the top clamp and another which is more of an insert in the top clamp. These two are shown in the next thread.
 

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GasGas triple clamps after Husky stem installed, there is one spacer which goes under the top clamp and another which is more of an insert in the top clamp. These two are shown in the next thread.


Next two are of the spacer in the top clamp and the last photo shows my 82 Auto with the 1997/8 Husky triple clamp which bolts straight on with no modification needed at all. I just prefer the look of the billet GasGas clamps which is why I went down that route.
 

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No 2 bike now ready for Elba,

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Been a busy week, Wednesday was taken up with building a 250 motor from scratch utilising many and various parts from the man cave. All new bearings and seals duly installed and a fresh piston from Andy (HVA) plus rebore at my local machine shop.

Thursday... take one perfectly good 500 Auto and reduce it to a pile of bits,

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Thursday was spent putting finished 250 motor in and rebuilding everything.

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Friday was spent firing her up, running in the fresh piston and getting the carburation somewhere near right.
Today (saturday) was putting spent installing new Enduro tyres and general tidying and sorting, all good to go now and monday will be spent loading up the van for the 2500 mile round trip, can't wait!
 
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