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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Showa 49 conv, on a 83husky

tapio

tapio

Husqvarna
A Class
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This is my 83-500 whit an showa fork from a RM250 97,

Bought a tapered bearing in size 30x50x14 and used the original races in the frame, it bolted straight up(the stem beeing the right lenght)

It looks a bit to modern, but the way it feel on the track is just amazing :-)

I was going to use the husky front wheel, but after trying a disc breake, i dont think i can going back to drum

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tapio said:
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This is my 83-500 whit an showa fork from a RM250 97,

Bought a tapered bearing in size 30x50x14 and used the original races in the frame, it bolted straight up(the stem beeing the right lenght)

It looks a bit to modern, but the way it feel on the track is just amazing :-)

I was going to use the husky front wheel, but after trying a disc breake, i dont think i can going back to drum

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hope the pics are here now!

forgot to say that, with a pair of coustum built øhlins from philip in arizona the bike almost like a modern bike on quite modern mx traks
 
tapio said:
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hope the pics are here now!

forgot to say that, with a pair of coustum built øhlins from philip in arizona the bike almost like a modern bike on quite modern mx traks
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Looks good. I've got a set of 50mm Whie Power extremes on my 86 510, with the modern ktm brake it stops like any modern bike. Valving up another set of WP 50's for my 83 500cr. Who did the pipe on your bike if I might ask, and how does it work?

Scott
 
Looks great!!! I always liked those forks.

I put a 99 WR250 front end on my 86 WR400, was a simple bolt on and made the bike WAY better.

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Geoff Morrisfrom from down under. made the pipe, makes it stronger thru the hole power band.

Realy nice craftmanship gas welding all those pieces ,

the shape is wery different from the stock (bendt in so you are a little bit less cowboy, and fatter before the stinger)

here the gays email; geoff@geoffmorrisconcepts.com

sorry about my wrigthing am norwegian:-)
 
Sweet, glad I spotted this. I'm thinking about trying the Showa TC conventionals on my 88 510, and the WP 50's on my 85 500XC, for a direct comparison. Since each, have folks that swear by them both, as the best forks period, and especially for other than modern SX track type riding.

Look great.......
 
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