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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Starvation Ridge 12 hr

scoott

scoott

Husqvarna
AA Class
Ran my 83 500cr,83 250xc, and 86 510 in the air cooled class at the 12hrs of Starvation Ridge team/ironman race, outside Goldendale,Wa.

Also ran my 2010 ktm 450sxf.

Fastest lap for me was on the 83 500cr??? Several minutes?? faster than my ktm. ( 26:55 for Husky, 28:10 on the ktm. This on a very rough, soft, rutted, and occasionally muddy, 10 mile course.
Laps timed with electronic transponder system.

Just goes to show how much the bikes have improved in 28 years.
The Husky felt terrible, didn't handle as well, power delivery/gearbox was a pain, and of course the brakes left a little to be desired. But it still covered the ground pretty well. Suspension could have been cushier but....it was adequate.
The ktm felt like a Cadillac, controls/power delivery were seamless.........but I couldn't maintain the pace and ran out of breath by the halfway point.

( okay, I did have a chest cold that killed me on the ktm, didn't seem to bother on the Husky. Don't know why.)

Point was the old Husky lap times would have put it in the top ten teams'. lap times ( Bottom of the top ten, not the top.)
And I admit that I have a definite advantage of building the course. Knowing where I'm going and what lines to take helped a ton.

All in all, had a great time, and already planning on how to make the Husky work better at the next 6hr team race in September.
 
Interesting stuff Scott. Knowing you and the track I am not super surprised as it is open and kinda flowing and would level some of the advantages of the KTM. After riding Garys (gapman) 450Sx out there last year I was toast after 3/4 of a lap as the powerband and hit were tiring. I also rode my 92 WXC360 and then Scott McFates YZF450 and found I was WAY faster on his YZF. Suspension was the main thing, power on the 360 was fine. Interesting stuff, thanks.
 
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