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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

86 240 wr. Almost finished.

The 400 is a lazy mans bike , just point and roll on the throttle . Oh so easy to ride. Vibration good.

The 240 is hectic to ride, has a little under the power band but throttle control is important when riding up hills. Got the 87 front disk setup which works brilliantly. Vibration on the 240 is over the top and I am going to strip her down to find out why. [ c/shaft not running true is my guess ]

When we all get together I'll be riding the 400 :D

Ps. Keep your eye out for a 87 rear guard . You won,t be disappointed. [My 240 has one on it and uses the same tail light lens as yours];)
 
wooddee said:
Like the later model front end .
Click to expand...

the forks and front brake where the big limiting factors to me and this was a huge performance upgrade IMHO. It is literally a bolt on app too which made it just to EZ.

dukkman - You are right, the 400 motor is a gem of functionality. Really enabling and makes things EZ. Some say the best of the line.
 
Daniel508s said:
Is the engine a 240cc? Is the WR the only 240 model? CR240? Its very nice and would be very rare in my part of the world.
Click to expand...
I had a brand new 240 in 1984 (twin shock model water cooled engine) Cr's were 250, wr's were 240, something to do with FIM changes in 83 (i think) to the enduro classes. i vaguely remember there being a cut off at 250cc with no over size availability? so if you bored a 250 out to 1st oversize, it was effectively out of the class. Husky solved it with a 240. Happy to be put right if im wrong... could have been a marketing spin for all i know cheers
 
Going riding on Monday [ holiday here] and was giving the 400 a look over.
Have managed to spin the front tyre. [ this is with a rim lock and those poxy tls brakes][ Mine work great for some reason ]
The vibration must be worse than I thought because the left hand [ chinese ] radiator has fallen off.:eek:
And NO I haven't fallen off , yet .
All the mounting lugs have broken off at the bends.
I thought they looked a little light when I got them.
The rest of the radiators are well built and the side plates are double the original thickness :confused:
Have sent the radiator away to be rewelded and have fitted an old one for the moment.
Andy the trail ride is at Aratula where we used to race .
 
Great ride , lots of corners and reasonable hills [ both up and down ]
Just checking bike and yep the right hand chinese radiator has broken all the mounts now.
Poo
 
I got cbr 900 rubber mounts for the Husky. they are at the back of the bike somewhere but fit the husky perfectly
 
Not the rubber mounts Surprize.:cry:
radiator001.jpg
 
i understand your issue as i had to get radiator man to weld two back on and make another up for the 400. i had trouble getting the watercooled rubbers with the 6mm threads and found the cb900 option... a good radiator man should sort that for you
 
wooddee said:
What a mess, i take it you would'nt buy chinese rads again. Brian has them on his 400.
Click to expand...
Yes I know Brian has them , he gave me the idea.
Won,t he be pissed if his start falling off :eek::D .
To be fair it,s only the lugs that are suss , the rest of the rad's look pretty good .
If I was to buy them again I would put heavier lugs on from the start.
 
2009 300 wr p3.jpg
2009 300 wr p4.jpg
dukkman said:
Heard on the grapevine that your 240 is a goer Andy.
Tell us all about it.:applause:
Click to expand...
G'day Mike, Yeah she has six speeds now not two, it was the gear selecter spring all bent out of shape for some reason , found a nos in France swapped it over and was all good .Still have'nt been for a ride on it yet only a few laps around the yard.Have just picked up a 09 300wr with only 1000k's, getting dropped of at gary's work tomorrow, coming up from S/Aust via transport.
 
They punch hard those 300's, you will know when you turn the lightswitch thats for sure! At least he has plenty of room to stop in Warwick!
 
Na Surprize he's not in Warwick and won't come here for a ride.
He's up in millionair's paradise on the north coast.:D

I'me the one with all the stopping room and I really don't need it:)

We will have to meet in the middle at Bellthorpe Forestry.
One day.

Ps. It has been said that he probably won't bring the old girl as he has a new bike to ride now:eek:
 
I dont think it was the FIM, I believe the 240s came about because of a taxing structure, seems like it was France. If the bike was 250cc or more the taxes were higher, so to get around that they made a 240 and instead of making a bike just for France, they simply sold 240s to all of Europe. I could be remembering it wrong though.
 
bookin to the harrow vinduro nxt year. it was top ride. bring the twinshocker
I get up to the sunshine coast a bit and do some riding btween Kenilworth and Imble. Some choice country in there!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top