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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Magnificent 7
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GaryM
Husqvarna
AA Class
of Maico. It was a combo of extreme shock ratio and bad hubs that folks got hurt. And sued. Some were more than hurt.
Let me check on prices newly made cnc hubs by my friends in Germany. All newly made.
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I'm getting Maicoeducated...... Gary, this rear is the stock, cast magnesium 79 hub. So yes, I'm looking for a new rear hub.
There are some out there for 169ish to 249ish dollars. I can get a new aluminum one for like 290 BP. So, yes rather just go new and then I know what I got. I should not have an issue with the front. I do like the 250 powerband...... I still want to do some modern mods to the carb to get more bottom out of it.
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I'm staying with Mikuni but doing my modern mods in them. If it works? It should....
If not then few of them that will be riders, can go Lectron.
Bunch of these will run good but be stored away. I'd like to donate a few after I'm gone to maybe ama museum in my name?
Oh and just for kicks? One of those Husky ol Conical hubs, looks like it would go right on the Maico. Have to modify the spacers a lil and possibly the brake mount and plate.
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cruisetopdown
Husqvarna
AA Class
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
You can donate them to the "Cruisetopdown" museum
Ha! Funny! Don't you have some restorations you need to work on? Like your own Silver dollar project?
Mine are just a huge money pit that keeps growing like a sink hole, that consumes a house!
Guess my 250,390 and 500 cylinders are done. Guess through conversation with Jay at Halls, they put the decompression buttons in the heads of 430,390 and 500. Install was $50 each so not worth me doing it.
The other two have pistons coming.
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klotz super techniplate junkie
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
oldbikedude
Husqvarna
Pro Class
cruisetopdown
Husqvarna
AA Class
I love that Moto X Fox Bike! You Da Man!
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Thanx! I looked all over the internet to see if someone ever did one? I couldn't find one, so thought? Hell, I'll build one!
It's really growing on me...... Glad you guys pushed me to the bright gold rims! I was set on black but they make it pop!
I'm pretty darn good at lacing up and truing rims but these Akront dimpled rims were a bear. The nipples didn't have much clearance in the holes. I prob should have drilled them out lil. The spokes might of been a slight bit longer as well? I tried every technique imaginable to make it go fast.In order to get the nipples started, you had to make sure the spoke and angle were aligned.I would be on one side and see a bunch of nipples that fell out on other side? There were tons of swear words. Rear took 8 hours. Front took 2 hours! I did not want to scratch them! It was messing with my mind. I usually just stick spokes in both sides of hub and get my pattern down and fly. Now the other bike, with Nordisk took about 45 mins each with truing.
