Getting better every day. Chipping away at it. Addressing a lot of little things. Like how it is coming along. Fun bike.
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Well I couldn't help myself - 1983 500 XC
- Thread starter Motosportz
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Lectron has been around for 40 years. I don't want to turn this into a Lectron sales add but you can get them from Lectron or better yet me :>) Why me? I have been working for about a year on making them application specific to our motorcycles and many motorcycles. Have implemented many changes and revisions to make it fit and work better. Lectron has been great to work with. Anyway I pulled my stock carb needle to lean it and found the needle slightly deformed and looks warn. Probably a good reason it has the mid range gargle. The Lectron will work a bunch better just because it is new but I also believe it will do very nice things for how it runs and MPG based on my work, customer feedback, and the percentage of happy customers in over direct 200 sales. These things work, are EZ to tune and have many advantage all while being very simple. Simple and effective is a great combo.
Kartwheel68
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Lectron has specs for most bikes built since they started selling carbs 40 years ago. When I got one for my '77 Penton/KTM 400 they put the recommended needle in it and it was perfect.
Yep.
This showed up today, this is going to be really fun...
Got several metering rods to experiment with and sort out. Expecting big gains in how it runs and responds as well as milage.
Did just fine against the modern iron. I'm really liking this funny bike and it is working well for me as is and still has a lot of potential to get better.
suprize
Husqvarna
Pro Class
To give it that real "horn" look, cut your side panels right back to show all that "air" under the guard.... or chuck em completely and make a neat alloy guard for the pipe and muffler side.
I rekon the naked look really suits these old twin shockers, really shows the travel in the rear.
Everyone over here is chucking yellow springs on to give better performance. I haven't a budget for that yet!
I rekon the naked look really suits these old twin shockers, really shows the travel in the rear.
Everyone over here is chucking yellow springs on to give better performance. I haven't a budget for that yet!
Rossik
Husqvarna
AA Class
) and I thought I was the only one who likes to see as much air between the guard and the rubber......actually been thinking about trimming my side plates a bit....just nervous I might screw it up and trash the £60 they cost me
suprize
Husqvarna
Pro Class
mate has a moto villa 350 and that has neat wrap around sidecovers over the top shock mounts and exhaust, the rest is fresh air...looks sensational! the husky and a boxcutter have a date coming up soon as I can find a set of spare sidecovers. I may be tempted to risk life and limb and race it again so I need to keep an original pair handy before artistically revealing the airbox
Installed the Lectron. Fit is perfect. Can hardly wait til next ride.
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/my-83-xc500-get-a-lectron-carb-pix.41046/
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/my-83-xc500-get-a-lectron-carb-pix.41046/
Man my husky likes me today. New carb, cable, and throttle, new clutch cable, new plastic, new stickers. Getting nice and presentable.
oldbikedude
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Luv them big bore huskies
justintendo
klotz super techniplate junkie
the milk trucks love nice white plastic...
Hi, my name is Kelly and I'm addicted to working on my bike. Probably why I have managed 22 years of marriage, my wife always misses me ha ha ha. Anyway, it seems I have spent every spare second of every evening working on this bike. Its fun. I got a lot of crap laying around my shop and keep finding ways to get it on the beast. Shes really coming around. Motor runs perfect as far as i can tell. As above, Lectron installed, start EZ idles perfect runs snappy. So kinda done there for now. So addressed the ergonomics as the bars in your lap old school feel killed me in the woods when I wanted to stand. Had some fatbar mounts from a KX500 that I made work, mounted up some vintage original fatbar gold Answer Protapers, new grips and new handguards. Looks and feels so much more modern and to my liking for what I ride. Then I installed a new chain and sprockets it desperately needed and it rolls so much nicer and is so quiet. Funny. Terrycable clutch cable came in so I tossed a new school clutch perch with fancy quick adjuster and new cable on. Way better. new rear tire as the 15 year old bald dez tire was not doing it for me :>) Looking forward to the next ride, going to be much improved.
I feel like a motorcycle rescue volunteer sometimes.
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Probably why I have managed 22 years of marriage, my wife always misses me ha ha ha. Anyway, it seems I have spent every spare second of every evening working on this bike. Its fun. I got a lot of crap laying around my shop and keep finding ways to get it on the beast. Shes really coming around. Motor runs perfect as far as i can tell. As above, Lectron installed, start EZ idles perfect runs snappy. So kinda done there for now. So addressed the ergonomics as the bars in your lap old school feel killed me in the woods when I wanted to stand. Had some fatbar mounts from a KX500 that I made work, mounted up some vintage original fatbar gold Answer Protapers, new grips and new handguards. Looks and feels so much more modern and to my liking for what I ride. Then I installed a new chain and sprockets it desperately needed and it rolls so much nicer and is so quiet. Funny. Terrycable clutch cable came in so I tossed a new school clutch perch with fancy quick adjuster and new cable on. Way better. new rear tire as the 15 year old bald dez tire was not doing it for me :>) Looking forward to the next ride, going to be much improved.
I feel like a motorcycle rescue volunteer sometimes.
Before...
oldbikedude
Husqvarna
Pro Class
So, now that you got it sorted out.......isn't it time to rip it apart & powder coat the frame, & so it never ends.....lol
Ha ha that really is the eye sore at this time. Might get a nice rattle can job soon and maybe someday a real paintjob. To busy riding it.
oldbikedude
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I'm sure it is so much fun to ride that pulling it apart is the last thing ya wanna do. I don't blame ya at all.....ride it!
mkfox
Husqvarna
A Class
Would give it 100 likes if the computer would let me. I am new to Huskys, but I do know that from all of information I have gathered from being on this site every day, the 1983's are the most beautiful Husky creation to me.Hi, my name is Kelly and I'm addicted to working on my bike.
I feel like a motorcycle rescue volunteer sometimes.
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