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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Good find, 82-430XC-another one

Husq.fleet

Husq.fleet

Husqvarna
AA Class
Friends older brother called me yesterday and asked "dont you like those old husky's"? I love those calls! He asked if I was interested in buying his 82-430XC, original owner bike at that. I of course said yes... Went and looked at it and its a little "original" He seized it in the early 90's. Too bad it has MS desert tank on it, wish it had original.o-well. The bad, of course need a piston, shocks dead, forks dead, tires etc etc from sitting since 91, at least it was inside and nothing rusts around here. The good, Jug has nice port job, Mossbarger reed, Asch pipe. I got all the original paperwork on the bike from the sales recpt, warranty card and every recpt. ever on the bike. For those nostalgic folks here is the best part. Bike sold new here in Pendleton Oregon at J-J Cycle. That was my best friends dads shop. I was 16 in 82 and to "work off" my parts/repair bills on my Husky, I uncrated,helped assemble new bikes and numerous other shop tasks. I uncrated that bike new and checked it over before the new owner loaded it, 28 years ago. I'll get some pics posted soon as I make some room for it in the garage. Have to slip one out for the "domestic peace" before sliding this one in. :thumbsup:
 
I am thinking of buying the same year model of Husky. Is this bike fun to ride in the woods. I just want a vintage Husky to play with. I also am looking at a 1978 cr390. I think they are both pretty bikes Im just not savy on what is desirable in the older bikes.
 
I think you would enjoy the XC-WR model over a CR model for woods riding. CR is tall geared, internal rotor ignition- light flywheel. 390CR is a awesome bike for which it was intended for, I had a 80 OR390 and loved it. It was a good woods bike but it had a wide ratio trans, low first gear. Have fun Scott
 
Haven't picked the bike up yet but he called and said he found more "stuff" for it. He found the factory tool kit, HP or MS alum bike ramp. Two flywheel pullers and a "Richter" silencer. :thumbsup:
 
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