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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

81-WR250 Found its orig. owner

Husq.fleet

Husq.fleet

Husqvarna
AA Class
In the classified section I posted a 81-WR250 I picked up for parts. Had alot of interest but had a couple intersted in it whole which to me is alot better than being parted, my opinion only. Last winter I bought a 82 XC430 from its orig. owner, pretty bad shape as it had been a desert veteran. Well the guy I bought the 430 from, his brother called me and asked if he could come by and have me help do some wiring on his street rod project- sure, garage bucks are cool.
I opened up the garage door and he said "when did you get my old 250?" I thought ya-right. He said I know thats my old bike, I bought it brand new and he told me some things to look for, like a welded washer on upper shock bolt on opposite side of bike, side against the wall, without him getting within ten feet of it, sure enough it is!
I said "wow"! what a deal. He said he bought it new in the crate as a leftover at the same time his brother bought the 430. Kinda weird that I have both of them. Gets better, he also lived two doors down from my house when he owned the bike, moved just before we moved in. He flipped me some extra for the "Husky's restoration fund" .....another project. Glad I didn't take it out to the in-laws barn for storage yesterday like I was going to do, see procrastinating is good at times.:thumbsup:
 
It does not surprise me in Pendleton Oregon you would run into the same people. :D I am related to many people in that area but know none of them. My dad is from Walla Walla, my mom from Elgin and i was born in LaGrande. Heck i might be related to you. :p
 
Motosportz;105282 said:
It does not surprise me in Pendleton Oregon you would run into the same people. :D I am related to many people in that area but know none of them. My dad is from Walla Walla, my mom from Elgin and i was born in LaGrande. Heck i might be related to you. :p
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I'm sure we are and my birthday is coming up, do you want my list now? I tell my ten year old daughter that it is a small world and don't forget that!
 
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