• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

1976 250CR Factory Thru the Frame Pipe Option

Maybe you can give a ride report between the 2 pipes KW? I always wanted that big pipe down the left side ... It just fits the Huskies look perfectly ... These are the Marilyn Monroes of bikes ...

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MarkT said:
It may have been BS but the Service Manager at Malcolm Smith's (Dave?) told me back in 1977 or 1978 that my late 76 with the crossover pipe was a "last minute Mikkola replica" with "works" porting as well as the pipe... supposedly the same as Mikkola's world championship bike? I'm not sure this was true. I do know that it was quick... easy to get holeshots even against modified RM's and YZ's.
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Frank was the guy in Pine Bluff, AR that sold me my bike in early\mid 1977 ... He never mentioned the Mikkola angle and I was expecting the big tube on the side .. Bike does look slimmer with the crossover ... The porting was worth it if it was there ...
 
I have no complaints with the stock side pipe, the power is wide and easy to use and is plenty fast on the top end. I only got the cross over pipe for a narrower mid section, but when I get it on I will give a ride report.
 
ray_ray said:
SNIP....................................


Frank was the guy in Pine Bluff, AR that sold me my bike in early\mid 1977 ... He never mentioned the Mikkola angle and I was expecting the big tube on the side .. Bike does look slimmer with the crossover ... The porting was worth it if it was there ...
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Ron Dugan at Malcolm Smith's sold my Dad my bike in early/mid 1977... The new 1977's were on the floor already. Ron did not mention the Mikkola angle either... it was several months to a year later that the service manager (I think his name was Dave) told me the Mikkola story.
 
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