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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

How much does your Husky mean to you??

Skoalman

Skoalman

Husqvarna
AA Class
In January 2009, during a moment of temparary insanity I sold my Husky WR 400 to gentleman in Texas...7 months later I saw that he posted it up for sale...So I called him and asked him what happened...and he said the bike was simply too much for him!...Shoot, brotha, when I heard that -- I knew I had to get ol' Olaf back home where he belonged!!! So in July 2009, I got my ol' boy back. Last weekend I picked another 85 Husky WR 400...How much do I love this bike???...Well, here's a post from another vintage website dated 14 Sep 2008:

I love this bike!

Hands down the most reliable post vintage bike I've raced and ever
owned.

Well, this weekends AHRMA Mid Atlantic CC raced was cancelled on
thursday afternoon due to an injury suffered by the track owner. And
so now I was sitting there with my Husky all dressed with no place to
go. Mike Murphy (Rokon Rebel!) called me and asked me if I'd like to
have a vintage only trail ride at West Virginia's Tomahawk MX Track.

I don't usually trail ride my old Euro Iron because I like to keep
them well oiled and squared away for race events only. But hey, with
no race on the horizon, why not ride it?

While Mike pulled the rope on his Rokon, I made some small
adjustments on my Husky, and fired the ol' beast up...Mike, always
tells me that he old and slow -- yeah, uh, right. So he told me lead
through the woods. Now I know I'm not as fast as Mike, but I think
Mike was using his ol' man reverse psychology jedi mind trick to push
the pace -- Oh yeah, it worked.

The conditions were greasy and sloppy, as it had just rained all day
friday, and there were 3-4 foot water filled holes all over the 5
mile loop trail. The trail is combination of every thing -- rocks,
roots, brief little high speed freeways -- a nice mix. However, it
truly was a mess out there in the woods. As a matter of fact,
everybody else rode the MX track, there was absolutely no else on the
trail except us.

To make a short long, I have had my fair share of marquis post
vintage Euro GS/Enduro bikes over the past few years, and I've owned
this Husky since 2005, but with the exception of a worn out CS seal
which I recently replaced, this bike is like combining a Panzer and
Sherman tank -- the best of both worlds. Strong, reliable, well
suspended, stable even in the worst of condition, neutral to very
precise and quck steering, and the brakes even work well in the wet
conditions. I was truly amazed at just how well this bike tracked at
higher speeds in these condtions.

But the best of this bike -- THE MOTOR!...

It's one of the best powerbands I've ever ridden, can be ridden like
250, but when you really wick it up then you know your on an open
class bike. Blaze or Lug -- take your pick, this Husky does it all.

I currently own a couple of Yamaha IT's and a 79 Maico 250 GS (best
handling bike I've owned Modern or Vintge -- bar none!) -- good bikes
in there only lil' way; BUT, the Husky is the total package. It does
everything well...And for post vintage racing, that's just enough for
me.

So if you ever get hands on one, don't let it go...and if you know
someone who is looking to sell an a 84-85 Husky WR 400 (ITC Twin
Shock) drop me a line or two...2 Husky's are better than just one!



SO TELL ME, HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE YOUR HUSKY?:notworthy::):thumbsup::cheers::applause:
 
I love ol' Trajan the TE so much, I don't have any plans to ever get rid of him.

But anytime I have to sell one of my bikes, I feel like I'm selling my own child and sending him out into the big bad world with somebody who won't love him or treat him as nicely as much as I did.
 
more than i thought it would.... i have f800st in my garage and i find my te510 mono's down the road easier ! ;) and i pick it every time, no matter what ! its a hoot ! and i also find it the most comfortable bike too and ive chopped the seat ! great bike...i am small too and once i sorted out some things like , lifting the bars an inch and getting front forks nice, it has been a blast ! cant praise it enough ...
 
Bro was a Factory Support Husky Racer

Huskys have a very special place in my Heart, see my middle brother
was a factory support Husqvarna MX racer in the 70's, & got as high as
National number #79.

SO we we always had a garage full of Husky,with all kinds of trick do-do's, & a van with giant "Team Husqvarna" decals on the side etc.

I when to plenty of nationals , Unadilla NY, Daytona, Florida Winter
Am series, Mid -Ohio etc, saw Decoster, Lackey and the rest in there
peak form :notworthy:.

So wouldn't you know it , 3 years ago, a guy down the street sells
me a beat 1980 390CR , just like my Bro had back in the day.

Nothing says MX to me more than a black tanked Husky :D.
Plenty have asked me to sell it , but nothing doing, though it not
his old bike,there's a connection.

No if i could stop buying every damn Husky with in a 100 mile radius,
i have room in my garage :lol:

John
 
i wish we had an abundance of them here like you do over there :( second hand vehicles here are rediculously expensive.. even garbage is expensive ! 200 dollars for a 15yr old fridge for the garage (beer !) ... hell no ! lol...



sorry, as you were ! ;)
 
I have a love/hate deal with Huskys!:D Have had some that were great and some that made me crazy.:banghead: One thing you can count on-they will have poor brakes compared to the compition.:excuseme: Maybe that's way I used to be so fast in turns?:)But something always brings me back,could be my Swedish heritidge? Here' my latest project 1983 Husky 250XC that was ported by Up-Tite Husky and has some of their othe trick items. Thanks Frog:cheers:
 

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Well, I truly haven't had any bad experiences (knock on wood) with any vintage husky I've owned...I think they're one of the easiest vintage bikes to work -- even the vintage watercooled bikes are pretty straight forward...I'd love to get my hands on some more aircooled Huskies though...
 
I am the Husky rescue league around my area! Anyone see's one they tell me about it. If i have the cash i pick it up. If i sell one i keep track of it. My first ever Husky was an 84 250 after that it was all down hill from there from a 75 WR 430 to the newest one a 2004 TE 450 and everything in between.
 
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