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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

450CR new member

spotter

spotter

Husqvarna
howdy folks, i went to a friend's garage to look at a velocette for a friend and would up buying a 450CR for me. kinda interesting as it has a non std frame with adj headstock. headstock has US SPORTS cast into the alloy body, frame appears to be CrMo with an alloy rear fork. mikuni carb, koni shocks. anybody have any clues about the frame maker? or seen something similar from back in the day or on the vintage race circuit? pics are in the husky file here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos if that doesn't work here is direct link:
https://picasaweb.google.com/116081803601732579643/450CRHusky

cheers, scott
 
looks like you have a Maico frame, actually the whole chassis, from about the same time period. So i guess it's a Maiusky or a Husqaico?
 
the fellow i got the bike from called me. the widow of the previous owner had some papers...
turns out it is a boyd & stellings chassis. boyd sold out to stellings (rather ugly affair as i understand) and stellings sold it to u.s. sports in texas
package includes original bill of sale for a new engine in 1974. frame kit in 1975 with MSO. bill of sale, in 2000,to second owner (now deceased). papers include 6 page typed sheet for assy, maint, and set up with many handwritten notes added from the frame company. i am well stoked :-)
 
Cool bike! Is there any rust on that chasis, is it painted? The sheen looks like titanium? Looking forward to more pictures.
 
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