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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Want to swap on black rims, KTM sizes fit?

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old3

Husqvarna
AA Class
Looking to swap out the green label silver rims in my 2006 TC450 for some black Excels, maybe A60 if I find a nice deal. Question is what fits? Are the later model KTM rims the same drill pattern?

On another angle to get black rims, is there a lighter hub that will swap on the 06 Huskies that I could just buy a full wheel set outright? I get great deals on KTM OEM stuff and I recall these wheels are pretty beefy in weight.

Thanks!
 
Contact dubyausa.com, they put wheel combos together for lots of bikes.Just got rebuild kit for Talon hubs for my '20 Husky CR250..couldn't hurt to ask
 
old3 said:
Looking to swap out the green label silver rims in my 2006 TC450 for some black Excels, maybe A60 if I find a nice deal. Question is what fits? Are the later model KTM rims the same drill pattern?

On another angle to get black rims, is there a lighter hub that will swap on the 06 Huskies that I could just buy a full wheel set outright? I get great deals on KTM OEM stuff and I recall these wheels are pretty beefy in weight.

Thanks!
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Husky rims of that time are one of a kind, but Buchanan can pretty much lace any hub to any rim since they make whatever spokes they need.
 
I was afraid if that, lol. I see eBay wheel sets with red hubs and black rims for under $500, but I'm sure they aren't the best quality and I've read the finishes fade badly.

Thanks guys. If anyone knows of a crossover wheel from something else please post up!
 
Its interesting but I have learned that all anodizing can fade with time. I first noticed on the bike you see to the left just after two years. Now working with great anodizer for restoring my rims on several bikes and have been in the shop to watch rims being done. He went into great detail. It more to do with plain old sunshine that anything else, of course age is a factor also.

We have been making the color a bit deeper to allow for fading. I used to think anodizing would never fade or change, this was all new to me
 
I get it. Might be ok for the $. I've heard of guys beating them and they hold up and others say they are junk. A roll of the dice I guess.
 
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