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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1988 WR430 Restoration

With regards to the forks, I would imagine that the new Showas or KYB are much better than the older WP, but I don't know for sure.
With regards to the headlight, Husqvarna-Parts.com has complete NOS round housings. I think the squarish headlights might have come on the smaller displacement WR's although I can't find any specific info. I have always wondered that too.
 
It's looking right now, like my bike will be getting the late 90 RM TC Showa's, or perhaps the WP 50mm's. Both conventional designs, and very nice looking to my tastes. I'll save the USD ideas for another bike build, and one more aimed at tighter MX track use I suppose.

On the headlight, I'm definetly sticking with the round one. But have no light itself, just the number plate housing. I'll figure that one out later, unless I stumble on the actual light info sooner ofcourse. I even have a little interest in a speedo myself, but we'll see.

Thanks for the info/link, I look forward to updates on your bike.
 
Are you going to keep the rear fender on the bike as I would be interested in buying it from you if you are not going to keep it as I need one for my 87 WR430, thanks ron
 
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