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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Huskies in Action

correct, non competitive, pre 85 bikes. everything from a triumph 650 to an er 185 Suzuki. pick of the weekend was an immaculate swm 250 ~79 model and a real early DKW 125! haven't seen one of those since early 70's magazines!

it was an ebay pickup for 1500 bucks and it ran!
 
Suprize
Great to catch up down at Harrow.

Fantastic weekend and ride, shame about the 12 hrs travel each way to get there for the NSW crew.

What do you mean 4 hrs for the Sunday vinduro - Gold was 3 x 2hr laps:) (3 x 58klm (35 mile?) loops) Unfortunately my 2 laps took about 4 1/2 hrs, then I started my third and ran out of arrows......

I wish I could say my ride was incedent free but with greasy logs, hills and mud, it was all but.

Will post some onboard footage on the AE - lap 1, pretty clean so far....
 
sorry your right, but it was a 4 hr cuttoff at the PC. you couldn't go back out after 1.00 pm.

all you can hear on my go pro is the pitter patter of rain!

I offed twice as well in the deep sand and the little rut next to the creek.

cheers
 
Great vid, I wasnt going that fast through there thats for sure.. you seemed to find the easier lines there.

great stuff.
 
That's me :D .....

fastest bike there was Reeksie's WMW which was a thinly disguised CR 250 (84) that was doctored for registration by Wooody Motorcycles in Wyong (WMW) Took me a while to remember what it meant too.

it was crisp and he is quick...

Here is the husky list for the event....

Hus 125CR 77
Hus 175 76
Hus 360 8 Speed 70
Hus 430 WR 83
Hus Auto 420 81
Hus Auto 500 83
Hus WR 240 84
Hus WR 250 73
Hus WR 390 79
Hus WR 400 84
Hus WR 500 84
Hus XC 500 84
 
Looking good, but, air cooled rules! Me, I'm really enjoying the hot summer and all the wet stuff is still on the inside and no gauges to look at when I should be looking at the road !
 
dinga de ding ding..... love the sound of those old aircooled bikes. the lc sounds like a sewing machine
 
Great vids guys. There is a bike for every taste in the 1st clip!
2nd clip, the AE 500 sounds so different travelling though still similar to my old air cooled XC 500, but then the sound is also different to the 430 and then to the 400, but mostly in how they rev it seems,
i've always found the idle to sound similar though;

da..dang...dang...danga....dang..dang...da.dang.....dang....dang
 
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