Kaffeberg

tourist · Mar 19, 2013

So I live in Iceland. In the used bike market, Husabergs are extremely overrepresented. Every second used bike is a nice clean '05-'08 Berg. It seems that there was a Husaberg fad in the boom years and now nobody is buying - seems the reputation for unreliability is making for a nice buyer's market.

As I sit and wait water my paycheck waiting for it to grow, I turn to schemin' and dreamin' ...

10 minute Photochop is 10 minute:

Could be fun.

tourist · Mar 19, 2013

Should be a relatively simple modification. Just raise the forks in the tree and lower the rear suspension. (My naive thinking is that probably the most work is going to go into the rear susp. - adding a link and shortening the stroke to not push the rake too vertical.)

Then just chop things off, shortening the rear and dropping the front fender as they won't be needed on a street toy. Then either get some clipons or just turn the handlebars in the clamps to create a more aggressive position. And drop a nice round cafe headlight on there. Keep the rest - end up with a ratty cafe-supermoto.

jon andersson · Mar 19, 2013

With the dual exhaust you can make two separate headers on each side with two smaller pots.

tourist · Mar 19, 2013

Beautiful idea - but outside my means of fabrication ... but a strong incentive to learn.

Two separate high-low headers on the same side are also an option ... ohhhh yesssssss ...

tourist · Mar 19, 2013

Made it street legal

Fixed some Photoshopping errors. Added rough front fender mockup plus extended the forks to their original length. Looks kinda cool - and a bit dangerous. Surely they can be permanently compressed somewhat, naturally at the expense of travel.

Bergini · Mar 19, 2013

Lol, i guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.......Here i spent all this time trying to make mine loook like photo #1 :bounce3:

tourist · Mar 19, 2013

hehheh ... That's how it works I guess

logjump · Mar 20, 2013

Looks more like a Krappeberg.
Sorry.

tourist · Mar 20, 2013

logjump said:
Looks more like a Krappeberg.
Sorry.

hahhaa that's OK

I like it 8)

Someone mentioned that the footpegs would have to be moved or the bike would feel funny. Anyone have any input on that? Feasible? Good ways of doing it?

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