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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Ultra secret Husky prototypes!

ray_ray said:
It might make engine \ transmission overhauls easier also ... ESP if this idea was mainstream and made it into the 4t we see now ...
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It's been done on sport bikes. It's probably not the lightest way to do it and that's why they steer away with dirt bikes. Who knows lol but it would be nice and as someone mentioned, imagine just swatting a wide ratio and close ratio as you see fit:)
 
the 88 CR250 was an upgraded 87 CR250, looks like a Cagiva head a modified Husky barrel and the power valve was electric in 87, the interesting thing is it was case reed, the rear has a disc as expected
not sure what the comments on a KTM swingarm are about
 
2premo said:
not sure what the comments on a KTM swingarm are about
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You can clearly see a KTM swing arm is welded onto the husky arm. Probably a semi modern KTM wheel and brakes too.

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Motosportz said:
You can clearly see a KTM swing arm is welded onto the husky arm. Probably a semi modern KTM wheel and brakes too.


more than likely the sourced the hub and rotor from the same source as KTM, in those days same as Husky they bought or outsourced a lot of parts
the swinarm looks like other bikes of this era, but can't rule out KTM
to assume it was not copied by KTM is also an assumption
still good eye and interesting thought


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2premo said:
more than likely the sourced the hub and rotor from the same source as KTM, in those days same as Husky they bought or outsourced a lot of parts
the swinarm looks like other bikes of this era, but can't rule out KTM
to assume it was not copied by KTM is also an assumption
still good eye and interesting thought
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Actually looks like a dead ringer for the Bets rear swing arm, look at the castings.

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