• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

250-500cc WR250 motard

KTMm, Honda, Yamaha rims is easy to get to fit. You just need to get the right spacers for the rims. i have yamaha 2001 wheels on my 300, and the guy before me had the same wheels on a Honda 450 CRF, and KTM,s 300 for example has the right rear hub width as the Husky, 150mm. The Husky 4-strokes on the other hand is 5mm too wide at the rear hub. Most important is rear hub width. 150mm or smaller with spacer is required. Now my wheels are on my Honda CR 500:=).

Johnny
 
john french said:
I would like the the wide motard look
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johnnymannen had great ideas or --

if cash is no problem. order some Marchesini or carbon wheels $1800-$2200 or excel with hubs or comparable $900-1400

if cash is tight, strip your wheels "spokes & rims" reuse your hubs order some spokes and rims 3.5 & 4.5 width 17" build up wheels
 
I have a 5" wide rear rim with 160/60x17 wheel and there is no problem on the 300 with that, but the CR 500 is reeeally tight. I use cut slicks for the street, and the slick rear tire is not as wide as a regular roadtyre as it has a different profile (less flat). Turns in very easy into corners with the slick .
 
Johnnymannen said:
I have a 5" wide rear rim with 160/60x17 wheel and there is no problem on the 300 with that, but the CR 500 is reeeally tight. I use cut slicks for the street, and the slick rear tire is not as wide as a regular roadtyre as it has a different profile (less flat). Turns in very easy into corners with the slick .
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Thanks for the help every one. There is one road legal cr 500 motard in new zealand it is a 1997 and the guy wants $10000 us for it
 
john french said:
Thanks for the help every one. There is one road legal cr 500 motard in new zealand it is a 1997 and the guy wants $10000 us for it
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Ooh, that was a lot! My bike isn,t road legal. I use the number plate from my husky 300 and it doesn,t say Honda or 500 anywhere on it;=). The risk to be discovered is minimal.

Johnny
 
+1 on Johnny's comments about the wheels (not so much on swapping plates you naughty boy...)
I've got a set of SMPro wheels on mine that I had on my 09 TE450, but I bought an OEM WR300 rear hub and had it laced to the 5 inch rim. The spoke pattern of the rim is a 'jap' pattern though, so make sure your wheel builder is good enough to work it out!
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Twatty said:
+1 on Johnny's comments about the wheels (not so much on swapping plates you naughty boy...)
I've got a set of SMPro wheels on mine that I had on my 09 TE450, but I bought an OEM WR300 rear hub and had it laced to the 5 inch rim. The spoke pattern of the rim is a 'jap' pattern though, so make sure your wheel builder is good enough to work it out!
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Your bike looks really good with the white rims! I am thinking of painting my rims black/white/black/white, like a chessboard, just like i have on my Honda CR 500 iceracing rims. it would look like the Swedish fire department is arriving;=)!
 
Johnnymannen said:
Your bike looks really good with the white rims! I am thinking of painting my rims black/white/black/white, like a chessboard, just like i have on my Honda CR 500 iceracing rims. it would look like the Swedish fire department is arriving;=)!
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Cheers Johnny!
Checker pattern will look awesome! might be a pain in the arse to do though?
put up some pics after you've done it!
 
Twatty said:
Cheers Johnny!
Checker pattern will look awesome! might be a pain in the arse to do though?
put up some pics after you've done it!
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The rims are already done, but i don,t know how to put in pics.. I mean that i have the 500 rims done=).
 
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