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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

any late 70's "OR" tranny bike guys here?

justintendo said:
weird that cycle worlds test of the 500 said it put out 42hp. i know peak power only means so much but a 500 puts out way more grunt than a 390. a good 390 does run well, but not like a 500. cycle world said an 80 250cr put out 30hp.
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Unless a bike (or a car) is tested on the same dyno, on the same day, with the same temperature, and the same humidity, the comparisons are worthless. Dyno charts were more popular in the '70s, but the reason the disappeared in the '80s is because they are wrong, a lot. I cant count the number of times that a shootout would say "Bike X is the fastest" and then Bike X would have the lowest dyno numbers.
 
Cycle world on husqvarna 77 to 84 is the magazine it's on husqvarnas only.

I can't find mine HVA has one listed for sale maybe he will take a p eek in it?
 
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