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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'72 WR Tank and Frame paint

Hahaha, you can never have too many bikes. I've mountain biked quite a bit in wales and its a unique type of rain- on the rare occasion it does rain :-) a fine wet rain, a rain that fools you into thinking its not raining much at all but you end up more wet than if it was a downpour! I always enjoy it there though, rain or no rain.
I've got in contact with Jeff Bens and i think hes going to send me a tank. I might buy some chrome sticker side panels to stick on it as its just painted, no chrome.
I've attached a picture of it. It's in boxes at the moment.
 

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That's a cracking looking bike, I would keep it just as it is, and not restore But each to their own. Those stick on panels look pretty good and you can't really tell. Out of interest how much was the tank of Jeff. Hope to see you on the track sometime soon John
 
Looked at your pic again. Cracking bike. Mines ruff as hell, and awaiting work/money being spent on her, but until I sell my Curtis it will have to wait
 
Thanks John. I bought as it had hardly been used. Original tires, rims, bushes, chain etc I'm told. I've taken all those 'perishable' bits off and have got NOS or reproduction stuff to put on it so hopefully it'll look original still, it's just a shame the rims dissolved a bit when I tried to have those re anodized.
Does it look like a '72 to you?
 
That cr400 does indeed look fantastic. The frame number on mine is MJ08--- and engine 2019 ---- which checks out ok as 1972 250 on the charts I've looked at.

Should the forks be silver then? Is it ok to have them powder coated if they're aluminium and how do tell if they're aluminium or magnesium?
 
The falcon shocks he's fitted look good, has anyone had any experience with these? I was looking at a pair of hagon shocks but what would be the better option?
 
Depens on what you want them for. NJB basic but completely fine. I have used them for racing but I have an Ohlins fixation lol Theres some 13" Works Performance shocks on Ebay. They are pretty good

DK offroad are currently breaking a 72 400, most cycle parts will be the same as the 250
 
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