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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Somebody stop me!

way to go...looking forward to seeing a 610/570 creation coming up! motarder or dirt? or 19" wheels ala dirt track style?
 
SA63 said:
way to go...looking forward to seeing a 610/570 creation coming up! motarder or dirt? or 19" wheels ala dirt track style?
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A straight motard silver streak inspired, I already got the wheels on the way 17" gold. I'm now looking at whole donor bikes so I can get the motor, twinshock the swinging arm, use the wiring etc etc and get the title to save all the grief of registering it. It also struck me that a Husaberg would drop right in too so looking at those.
 
that's one of those factory special 1 off's for joel smetts YOU CANT WRECK THAT****************************************
 
Have you ever seen lee j****ons husky/suzuki in the uk? Races it in the twinshock scene and at farleigh vmxdn? I will try to find a picture. He seems to go well on that and the engine seems bomb proof.
 
V.R said:
Have you ever seen lee j****ons husky/suzuki in the uk? Races it in the twinshock scene and at farleigh vmxdn? I will try to find a picture. He seems to go well on that and the engine seems bomb proof.
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That would be interesting thanks.
 
The Swedish lady has turned up today, I've taken her clothes off and promised she'll never have to wear plastic again . Plenty of room in the CR frame front to back and the Husa swing arm is actually 10mm ish narrower on the pivot, big square backbone frame is dog ugly! It came with massive 50mm WP forks, I'm also picking up another 49mm Showa set tomorrow(the EVO class has banned them so I'm told, so a few cheap coming up on Ebay).

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Dammit! Those pesky Swedes, I'd convinced my self the engine would bolt straight in, poor misguided fool. It's a good thing I'd pencilled in a year for this project. The swing arm pivot has to come forward and issues with carb clearance is just the start. Might use that arm, might not. I'm headed off to a Husky man armed with a tape and a clinometer to get dims and angles from a running CR soon.
I know what I want to build now and will start a thread 'Billy Grossaberg supermoto tribute' soon. Purists quake! I'm just waiting on a set of gold supermoto wheels from a complete w#nker on Ebay who took £400 from me two weeks ago and now appears to have left the planet. Once I get those I'll be able to mock the thing up and start from there.
Check out my fork choice though, some real bargains had. Any suggestions on 49mm Showa RM forks over the WP 50's?

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Sexy i like it so you sussed the engine then, im after a kwaker 420 aircooled to sm it just for kicks lol
Keep it coming wildebeest.
 
good luck with your wheels......I rekon the original owner is probably still looking for them as well!!!
 
I hope you don't but I think you will regret the Berg engine, those early Bergs are time bombs, I and many others have been bitten. Powerful for a few hundred miles or a thousand if you're one of the lucky ones!! Then £££££'sssss.
 
Freaky said:
I hope you don't but I think you will regret the Berg engine, those early Bergs are time bombs, I and many others have been bitten. Powerful for a few hundred miles or a thousand if you're one of the lucky ones!! Then £££££'sssss.
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I know the reputation but I think this year may be slightly better. Also I'm still going to do the main bearing mod I did to my KTM which is to change the right mainbearing for an up-graded roller then fit a ball bearing on a sliding fit journal on the left then shim for 0.3mm end float. My KTM runs over 60RWP and hasn't shit itself for 30 hours!
 
You'll probably be ok Joe. I have a mate near me who bought a Berg many years ago. His maintenance is less than zero. Oil change every two years or so, no air filter cleaning, never washed and lived outside covered up with an old Parka jacket. It's only demise was that after several years the Parka deteriorated and let water into the fuel tank via the split cap. I drained the carb for him one day whilst out laning. After that he commented that it had not run so well for years. It finally failed it's mot on various issues, none of them engine related. Guess what he did next ....... bought another Berg. That one he still has, but at least he now keeps it in the garage !
Neither of them had any maintenance, valve related or bearing. It just goes to show ...... they can be good. A comment by "Lord Flashard" (Black Adder Goes Forth) springs to mind ! Something along the lines of "Treat your woman like an aeroplane".
 
Change the cam bearings too, those are a real favourite to let go. Usually preceded by top end rattle then the needles disintegrating. Primary drive nut has a habit of coming lose to, locktite and correct torque sorts that.
Cracking engine when working right, light and very powerful compared to others of that size, just check everything regular especially valve clearances as slight changes make them a pig to start. At least you haven't got to split the cases to get the piston out unlike the slightly later ones!
 
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Freaky said:
Change the cam bearings too, those are a real favourite to let go. Usually preceded by top end rattle then the needles disintegrating. Primary drive nut has a habit of coming lose to, locktite and correct torque sorts that.
Cracking engine when working right, light and very powerful compared to others of that size, just check everything regular especially valve clearances as slight changes make them a pig to start. At least you haven't got to split the cases to get the piston out unlike the slightly later ones!
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Thanks, Ill do that. Your right, I was amazed how light the engine is when I got it out, might get it on the scales just for interest sake.
 
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