• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 & Before - Front Wheel

schimmelaw

schimmelaw

Husqvarna
AA Class
81' 430XC sm conversion in progress.
Photo 1: Obligatory "before". Nothing reused, borrowed or recycle from the stock 21". Its in the "for sale" box.
Photo 2: Parts. I love parts. 3.50 x 17" black, 36 hole Excell sm front rim. Buchannon ssteel spoke and nipple set. Black powdered 98' YZ front hub w/: nickle plated axle, nut and brake rotor hardware, gold ano wheel spacers and new wheel bearings and dust seals. Misc other necessaries.
Photo 3: Disc side.
Photo 4: Still need truing, a tire and rotor. Getting closer.
 

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Update

Boring update, I know, but progress. Tight, true and offending spokes ground down. A little emory cloth/hand sanding on the weld to knock down possible chafing issues with the tube. 17" rubber rim strip and a pass w/ duct tape. Done for the time being.
 

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