• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 wr 250

Dew3686

Dew3686

Husqvarna
A Class
I picked up an 82 wr250 off of craigslist about a month ago. The guy was originally asking $1800 and I got him down to 1400 right away on the phone. Once I got to his house I was amazed at how good of shape the thing was in. I still picked it apart pretty good and we settled on 1300. Once I got it home I called the local husky dealer and made a list of parts I needed/wanted for the bike. The tires were shot so I found a decent front tire laying around and ordered a rear irc tire since I don't have any 17" laying around. Replaced the rear wheel bearings, brake cable, clutch cable (both were original) swing arm chain buffer was missing so I replaced it and also replaced the air filter as it was starting to break down. The bike doesn't have the lights mounted on it anymore and I would like to replace them back to original. It has a pretty new set of progressive shocks on the rear, I wish it still had the ohlins. Pressure checked the cylinder and it passed. Also took the clutch cover off to do the internal adjustment after replacing the cable. The clutch basket looks damn near brand new. I'm pretty sure this is a low hour bike that never saw the much abuse or sat outside very much. The tank has a couple dents in it where it looks like it may have fallen over in the garage. I added a set of bark busters and re packed the silencer. This is my first vintage bike so I'm not used to the old two strokes. It's a night and day difference from riding my 310. Took it out for a spin yesterday and had a blast on that thing, it definitely takes a whole different riding style with these old bikes! Anyway that's my short story so far with this awesome machine.
 
such a great find for the money. notice how the old bikes just go straight over everything without much fuss...the newer bikes have you picking fussy lines and changing lanes all day (cos you can) but the old huskys just mow everything down (no brakes may be an influence there as well!)
 
Awesome. I could hang off the old bikes and still go straight. Those Swedish frames are user freindly. The twin shocks rock too.
 
The desert based 30.5° front rake has much to do with that. Stable, but you have to work the turns harder.
 
Awesome find ... great deal all around. I'd love to find a late 70's 250cr. My '75 175 cross country will be ready to ride soon, so I expect to be happy with it.
 
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