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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Before, after and before - kick stand

schimmelaw

schimmelaw

Husqvarna
AA Class
First pic: bent kick stand (about 3'' down from the top there is a slight bend which caused the stand to rub/ride on the bottom of swingarm); and
Second pic: wallowed out spring retention hole; and
Third pic: bent kickstand spring; and
Fourth pic: straightened spring; and
Fifth pic: straightened kickstand with repaired spring retention hole (post sand blasting) and sleeved spring.
A little torch work, welding, drilling, grinding and everything is straight and as it should be.
Stand will eventually have to be cut down in length and a new plate weld on. I have a feeling the stock length will be too long with 17" front and rear tires and not allow the bike to lean far enough to the left to be safe. Just have to see once rim/tire combo is mocked up and installed.
 

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When do we get to see the bike? Sound like its going to be one of a kind:thumbsup:Are you making a streettracker or a SM bike we need pics...
 
Mattskn,
Not much to look at currently. Disassembly, restore and parts acqusition. Sloooooow process while on a budget. The only pics are of individual component reconstruction/repair. I'm a long way from actually putting parts back on the bike.
The goal is to build an inspected, registered and insured street-legal SM.
Texas state inspection requires insurance, headlight, taillight, brake light, horn and mirror. Turn signals not required if bike didn't orginally come with them. No emission test are required/run on motorcycles. Its basicly a "vehicle safety" check.
Registration is no big deal. Once insurance is acquired and a state inspection has been completed - just walk into the tax office with proof of both, pay the registration fee and they give you a license plate and registration sticker.
 
schimmelaw;14360 said:
Mattskn,
Not much to look at currently. Disassembly, restore and parts acqusition. Sloooooow process while on a budget. The only pics are of individual component reconstruction/repair. I'm a long way from actually putting parts back on the bike.
The goal is to build an inspeted, registered and insured street-legal SM.
Texas state inspection requires insurance, headlight, taillight, brake light, horn and mirror. Turn signals not required if bike didn't orginally come with them. No emission test are required/run on motorcycles. Its basicly a "vehicle safety" check.
Registration is no big deal. Once insurance is acquired and a state inspection has been completed - just walk into the tax office with proof of both, pay the registration fee and they give you a license plate and registration sticker.
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Sound like my project..Slooow post some pics of the wheels when you get them built...
The state of Mi has the same requirment it makes it so easy to legalize..
 
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