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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Diamond Don's 2013

Kartwheel68

Kartwheel68

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Short race report from Diamond Don's:

Cross Country I got 1st in 100 Vintage, then 4th overall and 4th PV Open behind Guy Cooper and ISDT Vet Chris Graber on my '82 430WR Husky after a DEAD last start. I thought Trampas Parker was in front of me but his bike threw a chain.

VMX I went 1-1 in 100 Sportsman on my '72 Penton 100, but got passed on the last lap of moto 2 and had to use some old age, experience and treachery against the 16 yr old kid I was racing. 1st moto of Classic 125 (on the 100) I got 2nd, but I hurt my knee so I didnt go out for moto 2 which was after the 100 motos.

PV MX I only raced one class, GP500 on the 430WR Husky, headlight, taillight and all. I got a great start but got knocked down in the first turn of moto 1, I got lucky and didnt stall the bike. I came back for 6th out of 10, Guy Cooper was in this class too but his Bultaco broke. 2nd moto a didnt get as good a start, I wheelied out of the gate, but I didnt get knocked down so I expected to do better. I still got a 6th, this time Guy Cooper didnt break, so in my mind thats a better finish even though its the same place.

Helmet camera footage to come soon.
 
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The kickstand spring broke somewhere in the CC race, I didnt even know until I got done.

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Brian
 
She goes good, had the race face on thats for sure. Lucky that %$& kickstand (they are a PIA) didnt punt you into next week!:eek: Great pics keen to see some footage. I rode my old 400 at a Viper meet, lights and all, its on utube as Ravenswood 2013. you can see me frantically filling the radiator before the start as it was leaking... before getting a firm grip on last place! great fun
 
She has a modern KX250F but she had never ridden a 250 two stroke. Since the Husky 250s are pretty smooth and torquey she didnt have any trouble, but she did say that in choppy bumps she had to be careful to not get "whiskey throttle" or it would get away from her.

The spring broke on the kickstand, never had that happen before.
 
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