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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'82 430WR

Kartwheel68

Kartwheel68

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Just picked this up this morning. Its in really good shape, not even a small dent in the tank and other than the seat cover looks really good.

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The front fender still has the " Dick Burleson National Champion Replica" sticker on it.

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The bike started on the 4th kick, sounds tight, and is basically ready to ride with an air filter, brake shoes and a seat cover.
 
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I did not take the mag cover off, but the red Motoplat looking coil wire makes me think the SEM was replaced with a Motoplat at some point. SEM coils had black wires right?
 
Black wire cover was a CR and grey on the ones with the lighting i think.

Wicked bike, how much was it?
 
SEMs seemed to have been replaced with Motoplat Mini 6 in a one 82 250WR, the 82 430WR engine, and the 85 400WRX that was supposed to have the SEM. I do have SEM in the 2nd 82 250WR engine and in the 84 250WR engine. At least the 84 250WR was running when I bought it and the 400WRX as well
 
Your bike sounds great and I love that trail! My 430 has several little brothers too, an '82 250XC and several 125s.
 
Its a K-code 289, its my Mom and Dad's, but thats only one they also have anther K-code fastback in Poppy Red that is a retired MCA champion and a K-code convertible that is completely stripped and having most of the floorpan/unibody replaced. They have several other Mustangs, a '70 Boss 302, an '85 SVO, a '93 Cobra and a '99 Cobra convertible. I have a '66 Mercury Cyclone GT with an S-code 390. We're Ford people. :)
 
Here is the Poppy Red one, complete concourse restoration and now retired from competitive showing.

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Dad didnt farm out anything either, he did everything. The car is stunning in person.
 
The '70 Boss 302 is done now, but here is one of Dad using his spot welder while redoing the sheet metal in the engine bay.

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The convertible looks about like this now.
 
My first love besides my wife of 40 years will always be motorcycles (Husky's of course).
But unfortunately for my wallet, I have a weakness for Pontiac's too.

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