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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1984 400WR , Getting one back , I let go, sort of

ruwfo

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In the past, & only for a short time, i did own a 1984 400WR, a bike, i was always amazed of how, it put down the power, and just felt right. Should have kept it, but an offer was too good, so she was gone before i really ever had a chance to ride it much.

Owned a 86 400 Enduro for many years, a great wood bike, but I always thought the bike was a bit too tall , but I learned to live with it.

Well as i already posted recently, a clean 85 250XC, came my way, so i grabbed it. Then the following week, though, i really was looking for another bike, along came a of all things, a 84 400WR. I actually did hesitate , contacting the seller, i just bought a bike right?

Low & behold, the seller was i another Husky guy, i'd met 15 years before, so of course, he's like when are you coming to get it.

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In between snow storms, i did get about an hour to clean her up a bit more.

I'll post more pics & details soon
 
John right on, way to go and what a great find.
That's got a nice white tank on the 1 side we see, wow.
Thats the one i would have too if and when i see it locally to buy.

Steve
 
Details are guy i bought it from, got it from an old friend in 2015, motor was locked up from sitting. He the took the motor out and sent it to Rick Horvat, for a full rebuild. He also sent suspension to Vintage Husky, for a full rebuild as well & yellow shock springs. Somewhere
soon after that he put new tires/tubes, chain/sprockets, cables, rode it a few times, then it sat in his Shop for a few years.

Bike is really clean, He was meticulous in everything he does, he restores 1900's cars in he's spare time.

SO real soon, i'll changed the fluids & fire her back up, should be NO big deal as he drained the carb & only used VP race fuels anyway.
 
John, it was nice to finally meet you in person! :cheers: Glad you are enjoying it! Happy to "pay it forward" to a fellow Husky rider!
Now, go ride the snot out of that thing! :banana:

Jeff
 
Husky-Nut said:
John, it was nice to finally meet you in person! :cheers: Glad you are enjoying it! Happy to "pay it forward" to a fellow Husky rider!
Now, go ride the snot out of that thing! :banana:

Jeff
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Oh i plan on it, dude, i'll give it a great home
 
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