• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1970 Sportsman 360C 8speed

J

justdirt

Husqvarna
Hi , I'm a newbie to this forum and own a 1970 sportsman.

I bought it from the original owner in 1982 with 1500 original km's
on it. Rode it once in 1988 at a local ISDE fundraiser and since it has
followed me in cold storage.
I am slowly restoring it for occasional use and mostly display
at Enduro events here in Canada.
I appreciate the links to parts supply on your forum and will
use them as $$ and time become available.
From what I understand , the Sportsman was perhaps the
first dual sport bike made and was designed by Edison Dye (sp?)
and intended for the North American market.

If anyone can point me towards more history , I'd appreciate it.
Mine is SH1175 , unsure of # of these around.

Thanks for reading.

J Head
Ontario
Canada
 
justdirt said:
Hi , I'm a newbie to this forum and own a 1970 sportsman.

I bought it from the original owner in 1982 with 1500 original km's
on it. Rode it once in 1988 at a local ISDE fundraiser and since it has
followed me in cold storage.
I am slowly restoring it for occasional use and mostly display
at Enduro events here in Canada.
I appreciate the links to parts supply on your forum and will
use them as $$ and time become available.
From what I understand , the Sportsman was perhaps the
first dual sport bike made and was designed by Edison Dye (sp?)
and intended for the North American market.

If anyone can point me towards more history , I'd appreciate it.
Mine is SH1175 , unsure of # of these around.

Thanks for reading.

J Head
Ontario
Canada
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Sorry, can't help you with any info on your bike, but welcome to CH!
 
Hi,
I have a couple of 360 Sportsman too, Think I might begin on one of them soon. I'd like to know what you find out. I don't understand the thing about the plating of the nuts and bolts. Aparantely this needs to be done right. Maybe spokes and nipples too. Also my tanks are all bent up. Tanks on other bikes are difficult but straight forward- dent pullers, body fillers, san paper and patience. Not Huskys. I'm told that you can chrome over soldering that melts over 500 degrees but don't know if that is the propper way to repair a tank. Please advise what you find. Also, my rims are crooked. Can then be fixed?

Thanks,
Erick
gutierrezerick@live.com
 
Erick,

Wheels can be 'straightened'... I had my Akronts done at Woodys Wheel Works.. http://www.woodyswheelworks.com/

Your tank can be straightened... (the$e are just 2 $ite$ of Many)
No matter who you chose it will be pricy

http://vintagehusky.com/
http://www.vintagehuskyrestorations.com/untitled1.html

Not sure what you are asking about the plating but any good plating shop should be able to replate the bolts.. Just make sure you get ALL the plating you want done, at the same time. Generally these platers have a minimum price.. no matter how many parts...believe me you dont want to pay the minimum price for 2 bolts you forgot to take in, the minimum is probably $200 +... The nuts with the red nyloc, those can be obtained;

http://www.husqvarnavintage.com/Husqvarna_red_nyloc_nuts/p792576_3882180.aspx

http://www.ebay.com/itm/red-nyloc-nuts-8mm-tall-vintage-husqvarna-/190340393564


Hope this helps,
Mike
 
justdirt said:
Hi , I'm a newbie to this forum and own a 1970 sportsman.

I bought it from the original owner in 1982 with 1500 original km's
on it. Rode it once in 1988 at a local ISDE fundraiser and since it has
followed me in cold storage.
I am slowly restoring it for occasional use and mostly display
at Enduro events here in Canada.
I appreciate the links to parts supply on your forum and will
use them as $$ and time become available.
From what I understand , the Sportsman was perhaps the
first dual sport bike made and was designed by Edison Dye (sp?)
and intended for the North American market.

If anyone can point me towards more history , I'd appreciate it.
Mine is SH1175 , unsure of # of these around.

Thanks for reading.

J Head
Ontario
Canada
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Hello justdirt,

long shot you will see this as it looks like you havent been on this site since 2013. i am in the market to purchase a 1970 husky sportsman 360C. if by chance you are interested in selling please conatct me. 415-269-0795 thanks
 
Erick Gutierrez said:
Hi,
I have a couple of 360 Sportsman too, Think I might begin on one of them soon. I'd like to know what you find out. I don't understand the thing about the plating of the nuts and bolts. Aparantely this needs to be done right. Maybe spokes and nipples too. Also my tanks are all bent up. Tanks on other bikes are difficult but straight forward- dent pullers, body fillers, san paper and patience. Not Huskys. I'm told that you can chrome over soldering that melts over 500 degrees but don't know if that is the propper way to repair a tank. Please advise what you find. Also, my rims are crooked. Can then be fixed?

Thanks,
Erick
gutierrezerick@live.com
Click to expand...




hi erick,

long shot you will see this as it looks like you havent been on this site since 2013. i am in the market to purchase a 1970 husky sportsman 360C. if by chance you are interested in selling please conatct me. matt 415-269-0795 thanks
 
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