Post up pictures of your vintage Husqvarna bikes!

I race vintage and evolution classes here in Washington. I run Pentons in vintage and a Maico in evo. I have two brothers that also race vintage and one of them runs huskies. He helped me out when I had some bike trouble in the evo class and loaned me his 79 390 on a particularly muddy day.


Cool thing is I found this bike for him


One of my all time favorite pictures. I had paid my pre-entry fee for the AHRMA national at the Farm in Chehalis. The day before the race I take a spin on my Penton to check how its set up and the goofy thing blew up. Argh! No racing for me. When my oldest brother hears this he offers me his 74 250 Mag. He had just started racing a CZ400 so his Mag was sitting unused. Turns out we were both in the +40 class. He spanked me in the first moto. (That 400 two stroke gets a heck of a hole shot.) The second moto I got a better start and kept him in sight. On the last lap I wore him down and made the pass. This shot is about two corners after the pass and about three from the flag. I am 22m and my brother is 96s. He still beat me on the overall but it was nice to rub it in that I beat him on his own bike.
I was actually mighty impressed with how that bike handles.


Here is the aforementioned Penton






oops how did that get in here?

Very cool bikes, love the big seat.

Got my bike in the house

A little slow on this reply due to life getting in the way the last 6-8 months, but it gives me a chance to ask about your Ossa now that you've had it for a while. What do you think?

It's funny what was popular in different parts of the country. In New England in the late 60's and early 70's, the enduro championship standings were basically a parade of Ossa's. It seemed like everybody had one. On the other hand, I doubt they sold more than a handful of them on the west coast.

The Ossa pioneer didn't have a whole bunch of top end (or suspension, or handling), but had enough low end grunt to pull through the plentiful New England mudholes and rocks. Still, when I got off my Pioneer and onto the little Husky I think my speed in the woods improved by 30% immediately. Neither bike had any brakes to speak of - especially when wet - but I guess I felt more comfortable riding something that was 50 pounds lighter and handled 10 times better when I couldn't slow down. Not to mention it was much easier to pull out of a mudhole if I did get stuck.

And now, for a well deserved tribute to Cafe Husky. To my amazement, thanks to the tech section here, after nearly 35 years I may have finally solved the jetting mystery of my 1977 125CR that I mentioned in the post you were responding to. While going through the tech section here I found this interesting tidbit among the Husqvarna factory service bulletins:



So, thank you Cafe Husky! At this point it may be a little late to do that particular bike much good, but at least it looks like I probably found the reason why I could never get the jetting on my 125CR working right. This site rocks!

You posted this while I was composing my longwinded message above. Now that I've seen it I've gotta say that's some of the nicest room decor I've seen. Dammit, they made good looking motorcycles back then. What a pretty bike.

Pictures of my 1980 250

I hope thats a display only and you never ride it in the mud and sand! Looks spot on!

Nice looking bike!!
I like the tank covers on the wall, did you recently bid for the red one on ebay? because if you did you might have been the one that beat me for it!

Thanks, i did LOL

Small world! At least it went to a good home!

Tri-trophy is selling more of these tank covers on E-bay, red, black and they may have more of the blue and yellow ones for the steel tanks with the gas cap in the middle, just bought one my self for $18.

Thanks for that, i got a red one not long after losing the auction to 86 400 xc. Tritrophy is a a awesome shop and Dave Pratt is great guy!!

Mine does not fit lol have to make a larger hole to fit the filler neck.

Either did mine, but after a lot of fighting i finally got it on there and the hole has now stretched so that it goes on easily.

MY LACKEY REPLICA

my 86 400 XC and the 87 250 WR

What a beauty!!

You would never ride it!

my -84 400cr (5-speeder with lighting coil, maybe a wr with cr gearbox?)

Already ordered mine !