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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1982 cr500

I am almost done with mine, i will post pics in the next couple of weeks, can't wait to ride it. It has the original 4 speed with the 44 carb, up-tite intake flange and rear brake pedal, Pro-circuit twin arm chain tensioner. Still had the original std. bore. Now the motor is all new. More details later.
 
oh good shit man . yeah ill get some pics up when mine is done too . should be bout a month . frame and tank is at paint now . have re laced the rear wheel to a husky 18 inch rim . most of the rest of the dtails are sorted bar 44mm carb parts
 
That's great! Mine will also have the 18 rear wheel, just polished all the spokes and got the rims back from being re-anodized.
 
Yep, I like them best if there built to ride. I do understand however, if after spending thousands to get one done that you might be reluctant to ride it.
 
Hear that. I'm thinking more and more that I'm just gonna clean and reassemble mine. It's to be ridden. I've even started calling it The Petite Patina.
 
Also... any comments on my 2094 197 engine number? SHOULD there be another digit or could this really be #197?
 
could be worse... Mine has no engine numbers, the left center case was replaced at some point with a new unmarked replacement from Husky parts.
 
thats some cool history mine is pretty original apart from billet alloy floating brake arm and home made looking ish alloy brake pedal
 
So several Silver Streaks are being restored, but who has one running now? And where are the photos?
 
Husky37 said:
This is me on my 82 Silver Streak back in either late 82 or early 83..... Would love to get another one just because....

Would have kept it but traded it in for a brand new 84....

These are hard to find. Not seen many about but they must still exist in somebody's shed.

Stu
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Love it...where was the pic taken ?
 
dartyppyt said:
we were hoping you got yours done before us?
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Me too. And precisely why I think I'm gonna change my plan to a "clean and reassemble" build for now. Let's ride this thing! I just can't get the time to do a total, and I want that freshly bored cylinder and head mod to be put to use before they're all rusty again!!

evcross0 - I'm counting on you to keep me focused! Looking forward to your pics...
 
way to go...nice to have pristine resto in the shed but...opening her up on deep loamy track will be superb. im sure with some carefull port matching and reducing that carb to 38 or 40, the beast will rip!!:lol:
 
Picklito said:
Me too. And precisely why I think I'm gonna change my plan to a "clean and reassemble" build for now. Let's ride this thing! I just can't get the time to do a total, and I want that freshly bored cylinder and head mod to be put to use before they're all rusty again!!

evcross0 - I'm counting on you to keep me focused! Looking forward to your pics...
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Sounds good and keep us posted on progress. My issue: I am trying to do 5 bikes, all at same time. I got bogged down on cutting 5 tanks, slapping/filing the dents out and Tig welding them back up. If I get all 5 tanks shot this weekend, I will post up the pics.
 
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