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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Apologies London 2012.

jimspac said:
The front suspension was known as leading link. Last I saw of leading link was on DKWs in about 1973
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I should be doing a deal on a 76 Honda C90 tomorrow, with leading link! The kind of bike we used to use and then throw in a hedge, I remember when you hit the brake the forks go up not down.
 
But wait... amazing what you can find once you start digging. This courtesy of a Dan Gurney site, Hallman and Bickers et al !!

About 30 years ago Dan and his motorcycle friends lined up for a photo with the "1967 Riverside Rex Mays 300" Indy-winning Eagle. From front to rear: Roger de Coster, Dan Gurney, Joel Robert, Dave Bickers, Bud Ekins and Torsten Hallman, representing 17 European and World Championships and 6 ISDT gold medals.

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ray_ray said:
I gotta make another comment on this pic ...

Check out the bike ... What is that front suspension? What is that front fender? What is that sticking up over his throttle? What is that exhaust pipe? ... Gotta be a true 500CCs with a cylinder that huge looking ...



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The engine is a Villiers 250 cc with a megaphone exhaust, it was the best exhaust available and is in effect the first part of an expansion chamber, rather loud though. the front suspension is Greeves own leading link with rubber springing and girling dampers, the mudguard is mounted high up to the legs tin a position similar to modern. From the throttle is just the cable, no side pull throttles in those days!:)
 
Great pics from the Ramsgate history link recognise the places in them, the cooling towers at the then Richborough power station were finaly demolished earlier this year. Just before that used to be the Standard (i think) fireworks factory used to make going along that road between Sandwich & Ramsgate entertaining!!
 
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