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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TC 500

Jens Ries

Jens Ries

Husqvarna
AA Class
old stuff ... for my new bike
 

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hey RUF know the bike from Your avatar ... it s ridden by a very fast German rider. He s beating fast people with new bikes and he is riding German and European twinshock championship. Had a ride with him six years ago.
 
the pieces are: 84/85 WR lc 400 frame, 85 CR fork, aluminum gastank, 98 TE body six speed, 85 TC cylinder and head, delorto 40 mm, magura fatbar.
First step was to modify the frame. Cut the two rods above the carb and replace them into two bows for place for the carb. Then cut a lot of ballast. The connectionrod from left footpeg to end of lower toptube is missing at 4 stroke generally. Placed a small gusset insteadrps20140105_201625.jpg
 

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Yeap i went down the a similar path as your build , til i was lucky enough to find a original frame about 1/2 way thru.
Still had to make a custom airbox, & carb spacer though. Husky John100_0733.JPG
 
Hallo John,
here in Germany it s very difficult to find parts for huskys ... or complete bikes ... everything is very expensive .. most of the Germans rode japanese bikes or typical Maico in this times.
To get a twinshockframe, itc or usual, it s nearly impossible. Especially a fourstroke one.
But I m happy with the WR lc one, it s symetric at fronttube and in good conditions. The modifys are not so big.
To Motosportz: The fourstroke is very smoth to ride, a lot of power from lower rmp and moderate at top rpm. It s not like a twostroke, exploding power at top rpm.
Here in Germany the guys use the dellorto or keihin flat, but what s a lectron carb?
 
thanks for the info, cool bikes.

Jens Ries said:
but what s a lectron carb?
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A carb made here in the USA. It has no jets and works with whats called a metering rod. Works great, EZ to tune, lots of power, better MPG. They are great for replacing old vintage carbs and work fantastic on modern bikes too. Not trying to sell you anything even though I do sell them.

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Jens,
Yes i'd agree on finding some Husky parts being hard , i took me 2 years to find the 510 twin shock frame.

I had already restored the bike as a single shocker , it's a 86, but always wanted to make it a 2 shocker to
race in my local Vintage class.

Like i said i started down the modifing a LC frame path like you are til, one day , magically one appeared
on ebay.
Husky John
 
hallo John,
had a '86 TE too ..but it was liquid cooled .. last aircooled I had was a '85 TC four speed mono.
To Motosportz .. the carb is really beautyfull, like the transparent fuelchamber. What s the price for?
 
Jens.
I know in your country Herr Kaltemberg made this wonderfull lightweight with a similar frame.
 

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RUF said:
Jens.
I know in your country Herr Kaltemberg made this wonderfull lightweight with a similar frame.
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That bike looks fun to ride. Is that a newer TE610 side cover! Do those work on that bike. If so WOW. Talk about longevity in design.
 
Motosportz said:
That bike looks fun to ride. Is that a newer TE610 side cover! Do those work on that bike. If so WOW. Talk about longevity in design.
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i ran a 2002 4 stroke cover on my 83 250 motor for awhile...works perfect except has the extra bolt hole around the kickstarter area. a lil heavier than the original simple mag cover..more durable for sure!
 
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