• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TC450 kickback

kev900sp

kev900sp

Husqvarna
A Class
So, Friday morning I went out to start the 07 TC450, I just like to hear it run and wore tennis shoes and cargo shorts, like I've done a couple dozen times. The bike fired up on second kick, rode it across the street, to talk to my neighbor. I finished my conversation, kicked it once, then again. At the bottom of the stroke the bike kicked back, the kicker ran up the back of my leg, opening up a flap of skin about 6 inches long. Spent the day in emergency room, stitches to reattach the flap of skin. Missed the muscle, tendon and veins, but looking at a month of so off of riding while this all heals. The kicker has 3 or 4 cast in ridges and an edge where the two sides of the molds meet. I know, I know, if I'd had riding boots on this would never have been an issue. I won't make that mistake again. Will also smooth out the ridges and where the casting molds meet, a rubber cover is also in order. Please don't let this happen to you, wear boots and look at your kickstarted levers for anything that can catch on the back of your leg.
 
Did the same thing to a much lesser degree on a '80 Suzuki PE400 many moons ago. Never started that thing again without at least work boots on. Hope you feel better soon!
 
Kids !!!

I still have nightmares about about kicking a heavily modified XT500 back in the 70s: bored, stroked, compression, cam......
I wasnt all that big at the time and it scared the crap out of me to start it...do it perfect OR ELSE. It wasnt my bike, belonged to my best friend....and it won the 4 stroke national in '78....when men were cavemen..

WORLD FOUR-STROKE CHAMPIONS (1976-2010)
1976 ...Gunnar Lindstrom
1977 ...Mike Bell
1978 ...Rod Kentner
1979 ...Goat Breker
 
here's Rod Kentner's Powroll 605 in 78, and pro class holeshot at crossup raceway North of Bend.

powrollTT605.jpg


rodkentner78.jpg
 
WOW....that is the beast!! Thanks, those are great pics....I have some old Cycle News articles from back then, but no color pics. This is great......Rod is the furry guy in the hat...and yes he was big enough to kick it...great rider and an all-around great guy.

Crossup was our home track. We could actually ride on dirt roads about 3-4 miles to get there from our houses....or drive pickups illegally at age 15 on the pavement :-) Rod lived right across the road from me....I learned to race following him around (he was ALWAYS in front!)
 
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