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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

84 CR250

oregonsage

oregonsage

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Now that winter is settling in, its time to get serious about the 84 CR250 I picked up last summer.
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Whats interesting about this bike?
Last year of the double shocks....its fitted with the stock ITCs
First year water cooled Husky 250
Still drum brakes...
The thing feels like a feather compared to my modern bikes (TXC511/TXC310R/WR250)
Front tire was an ancient Trelleborg (original?)

So far Ive torn it apart and gathered some parts...
  • Chain tensioners/guides on the way from Philip at Husqvarna-Parts
  • Lower shock bolts courtesy of dartyppyt
  • ITCs are at MotoCentre getting a full rebuild
  • ruwfo just found me an air filter cage in perfect condition
  • and as always, Bills Motorcycles Plus has supplied gaskets, filters, and let me rummage through the ancient Husky parts cave for missing bits and pieces
  • and of course ebay has been used for a couple of goodies like a brake backing plate, axle...
New pics as it comes together

What's the plan?
Clearcoated, stripped frame
My interpretation of the original (and coming soon) yellow-white-blue color theme
Ride it....hard to say where since it defies vintage racing classification, but if they will let me out there I will give it a go :thumbsup:
 
The little box from AZ arrived yesterday.....so a quick fit of the guides seemed in order. Nice touch that logo cutout with one notch for the spring to nest in.
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make sure you weld up the kickstand bracket if you plan on using it. stop "tang" or tab on yours has worn out and kicker will go too far foward.
 
Joe Chod said:
make sure you weld up the kickstand bracket if you plan on using it. stop "tang" or tab on yours has worn out and kicker will go too far foward.
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Good point, I was looking at the ugly bugger thinking it needed something. More than likely I will just cut it off. That's the fun; every step reveals some new little thing that needs addressing :)
 

And jumping back a few weeks; the huskydogg video was priceless in setting up my kickstarter which had been unfortunately removed by the prior owner plus it had a badly damaged spring. ebay supplied the spring, huskydogg supplied the knowledge, BMP supplied a new gasket. Clutch side all buttoned up and holding oil. Everything spins just like new.
 
I had noticed when Huskydoggg left the forum, he seemed to have removed most traces of him ever being here. Posts and video especially
 
jimspac said:
I had noticed when Huskydoggg left the forum, he seemed to have removed most traces of him ever being here. Posts and video especially
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That video still lives in You Tube land....if the link disappears just search for kickstart huskydogg
 
Looking good! Maybe mrs can put you some parts under tree, from good St Huskinicholas!

Mine would rather have me visit the scrap yard and put some stuff under tree for her!
 
dartyppyt said:
Looking good! Maybe mrs can put you some parts under tree, from good St Huskinicholas!

Mine would rather have me visit the scrap yard and put some stuff under tree for her!
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Ho ho ho...
As soon as the shocks get back then those nice shock mount bolts you sent will get the spotlight doing their job.
 
I tend to think it was because he officially opened his own business and chose to keep his contribution proprietary. I do not know for sure, that is merely my own opinion. I have done business with him since but I feel that is his own business so I do not inquire
 
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