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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1971 Titanium Husky

"Of course, as with all motorcycle sales, he had seller’s remorse and decided 15 years later to track down as many 1971 parts as possible and build a replica of his Ti Husky. Here is a brief synopsis of how Lars built the bike you see on these pages. (MXA Jul 7, 2022)"

What museum did he sell it to 15 years ago?


"(1) Frame. When it came time to build a replica of his 1971 titanium frame, Lars could not find anyone who could manufacture a 1971 Husky frame out of titanium. Disappointed but not deterred, Lars got a 1971 Husqvarna chromoly frame and did all the 1971 mods to it. As a finishing touch, he had it painted to look like titanium. (MXA Jul 7, 2022)"

So the Lars bike is a replica - not a Ti frame? So... where is the original?
 
Vinskord said:
"Of course, as with all motorcycle sales, he had seller’s remorse and decided 15 years later to track down as many 1971 parts as possible and build a replica of his Ti Husky. Here is a brief synopsis of how Lars built the bike you see on these pages. (MXA Jul 7, 2022)"

What museum did he sell it to 15 years ago?


"(1) Frame. When it came time to build a replica of his 1971 titanium frame, Lars could not find anyone who could manufacture a 1971 Husky frame out of titanium. Disappointed but not deterred, Lars got a 1971 Husqvarna chromoly frame and did all the 1971 mods to it. As a finishing touch, he had it painted to look like titanium. (MXA Jul 7, 2022)"

So the Lars bike is a replica - not a Ti frame? So... where is the original?
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these are all good points, hope we learn the answers one day
if somehow it shows back up and he gets it back, how cool would that be
I think people could make the titanium frame but the cost might be through he roof, don't really know either way
 
There were two TI framed Huskies in Friendswood Texas on the H&H Music MX Racing team. One was a four speed 400 and one was a five speed 450. Track down Steve Hackney for details. Both bikes were raced by his father Clint Hackney.
 
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