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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1979 390 cr restoration

dmcoz said:
Many thanks Rick, much appreciated. Sorry to trouble you further but what length are the Fox airshox please ?
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Looks like about 17 1/4" eyelet center to center. I think I remember paying about $300 back in '77. alot of money then for a poor teenage MX er......Also, I had to have the fins milled on the chain side for clearance. Luckily my buddy worked in a machine shop and got it done for me.
 
rick danger said:
Looks like about 17 1/4" eyelet center to center. I think I remember paying about $300 back in '77. alot of money then for a poor teenage MX er......Also, I had to have the fins milled on the chain side for clearance. Luckily my buddy worked in a machine shop and got it done for me.
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Many thanks Rick, thought that would be about the length. cheers
 
really nice job on all your bikes mate! very well done, and i love your shed.

You can fix your text/image issues by going in to the post using "edit" then moving the images to the bottom of the text by cut/paste the [image].
hope it helps,
Paul.
 
Nice I'm putting parts together for my 390 OR. Never had a 390 OR before only cr's.

I had a '78 250 OR which we liked. The rpms stayed up from fourth gear to sixth gear, no big like the wr tranny if you weren't wide open flying.
 
Super Bowl sundaynight is my tradition to startup a restored husky. And do the after game ride burning up the street once she's alive. Funny my son still laughs about doing it today.

At 11:00pm or when the game is over the bike goes for its first ride on super bowl night. I work all day Sunday putting her together. I had complete engines rebuilt on shelves with all the painted frame and parts.

On Halloween I put on my street bike leathers and gloves and wear a gorilla mask and take out my dual sport. The kids would go crazy. One time the mask turned and up the curb the bike went with the front wheel in the air. I just hanged on and rode it out. It was all about the kids.
 
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