• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

250-500cc Lectron results

troy deck said:
SO HOWS THE BASKET CASE COMING?
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I've got a set of 250 cases in hand that I can modify to work. Also secured a good cylinder. I'm stuck on a crankshaft/rod. I'll locate a crankshaft or rod kit eventually. I've not split the cases as yet so I'm not sure the condition of the transmission. We will have to attend to that after I sort the crank. I've secured a replacement swingarm as well as a replacement front end. Slow going on the project as it was in pretty bad shape (well used and abused). We're steady collecting parts; hope to start on it over the winter.
 
Darrel78 said:
I've got a set of 250 cases in hand that I can modify to work. Also secured a good cylinder. I'm stuck on a crankshaft/rod. I'll locate a crankshaft or rod kit eventually. I've not split the cases as yet so I'm not sure the condition of the transmission. We will have to attend to that after I sort the crank. I've secured a replacement swingarm as well as a replacement front end. Slow going on the project as it was in pretty bad shape (well used and abused). We're steady collecting parts; hope to start on it over the winter.
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What model year 250 are you talking about? An 87?
 
THE WONDERS OF CAFEHUSKY THERE A NOTHER HILLBILLY IN FLORIDA THAT GETTING A 83 430 WR SOON TO WITCH BRINGS UP SOMETHING ELSE ANYBUDDY NEED TWO FULL FACTORY OHLINS REBUILD KITS FOR A ITC HUSKY???
 
everfree said:
What model year 250 are you talking about? An 87?
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I'm riding my '96 WXE 360 this trip. I was working to get the '87 ready but ran into ignition troubles. The mini 6 gave up. The '87 I got from Troy sat with water in the ignition cover; flywheel was rusted to the stator. I managed to get everything loose and cleaned up but that stator assembly only lasted ~ 10 minutes or so before it opened up. I've a power dynamo system heading this way. $313 all up including shipping.
I've got good cases from an '87 CR250 to put towards the project I got from Troy.
 
Darrel78 said:
I'm riding my '96 WXE 360 this trip. I was working to get the '87 ready but ran into ignition troubles. The mini 6 gave up. The '87 I got from Troy sat with water in the ignition cover; flywheel was rusted to the stator. I managed to get everything loose and cleaned up but that stator assembly only lasted ~ 10 minutes or so before it opened up. I've a power dynamo system heading this way. $313 all up including shipping.
I've got good cases from an '87 CR250 to put towards the project I got from Troy.
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There's a local WXE 360 for sale, should I buy it? I bet those 360s haul the mail.
I was just looking up PowerDynamo, I have one but it's not installed and I could use another for my Auto. You found one for $300 bucks? That's cheap.
 
everfree said:
There's a local WXE 360 for sale, should I buy it? I bet those 360s haul the mail.
I was just looking up PowerDynamo, I have one but it's not installed and I could use another for my Auto. You found one for $300 bucks? That's cheap.
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Yes, yes you should. In my humble opinion of course.

Installed a complete powerdynamo on my '92 360 this winter and have been very pleased with the results.
 
I'm very pleased with my 360. I've plated it so as to be able to ride it to the trails. This is my "go to" bike for tight technical trails as the gearing and handling work so well. It's light and handles like a 250. I've the Lectron and a gnarly pipe on mine.
I would recommend getting one. They seem under valued and, kick starting style aside, easy to ride well.
 
everfree said:
There's a local WXE 360 for sale, should I buy it? I bet those 360s haul the mail.
I was just looking up PowerDynamo, I have one but it's not installed and I could use another for my Auto. You found one for $300 bucks? That's cheap.
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I ordered from their website. Seems we may be enjoying a favorable exchange rate presently. I got the A/C system.
 
Darrel78 said:
I'm very pleased with my 360. I've plated it so as to be able to ride it to the trails. This is my "go to" bike for tight technical trails as the gearing and handling work so well. It's light and handles like a 250. I've the Lectron and a gnarly pipe on mine.
I would recommend getting one. They seem under valued and, kick starting style aside, easy to ride well.
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The 'go-to' bike, well that's saying something.
I've heard the Cagiva-built Huskys are well liked and the gear sets are really quality compared to the Swedish gear sets.

I'll have to think twice about buying another bike now... I already have another bike coming... ha ha. Will post pics soon.
 
The 430 seems a better dual sport bike; runs the highways much easier than the 360. The 360 works the tight technical stuff much better. Take the one way part of Black Bear road for example. I REALLY wanted to go slow and steady down that stretch of the road. I find it difficult to go that slow on the WR. The bikes are completely different from each other with each having different strengths. Perhaps this is simply my excuse for more than one bike?
 
Darrel78 said:
The 430 seems a better dual sport bike; runs the highways much easier than the 360. The 360 works the tight technical stuff much better. Take the one way part of Black Bear road for example. I REALLY wanted to go slow and steady down that stretch of the road. I find it difficult to go that slow on the WR. The bikes are completely different from each other with each having different strengths. Perhaps this is simply my excuse for more than one bike?
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they are different for sure, but both can do the same things. i like the 360 for tight work as it steers quicker and has less motor inertia..the 87-88 chassis is by far the most comfortable i have ridden tho.
the swedes chassis does want you to RUN as its so steady and missile like. i can see why with a thumper engine there were so many dual sports based off that made by the italians all thru the 90s
 
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