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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husky Graphics on plastics- finally

Hwy

Hwy

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Finally got around to putting my graphics on some used plastics that were purchased to replace my beater plastics. I think the swingarm repro came out very nice and cannot tell from OEM. What'da ya think?
 

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very nice graphics HWY. Am I right that they cover the whole panel, for example on the side number plates, the graphic includes the white part as well as the yellow?

Where are they from?

Cheers
Lucien
 
Thanks. Yes, they cover the entire panel and include the white and blue stripes.
Our business is custom graphics for bikes, cars and trucks. Vintage repro's are my favorite to reproduce.
 
Hwy;51587 said:
Our business is custom graphics for bikes
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Hi HWY - in that case you may be able to help me. Can you point me to the best product to stick back down graphics that are peeling up? People talk about special 3M adhesives, but they always seem to only come in trade sizes that cost like $150. Can you recommend a glue available to 'joe public' that would be effective and not overly expensive?

Also if you do number backgrounds for the '83 XC500 please let me know.

Kind regards
Lucien
 
Well, do be honest nothing works well after they start to peel.
The problem is that the adhesive is not part of the vinyl any longer. During manufacturing process the glue is thermally fused with the vinyl. This is not the case with aftermarket adhesives.

We can do you some new graphics if you have the originals to work from.
 
Are there any copyright issues here. I have a new, still unwrapped set of 1998 TE610 Graphics that would be nice to duplicate. Let me know; I have two 1998's, one set of graphics.
 
Hwy;51536 said:
Finally got around to putting my graphics on some used plastics that were purchased to replace my beater plastics. What'da ya think?
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Will they stick to DC plastics? I restoring a 1983 250XC and will need graphics soon.Planned on ordering MXM from the UK,but if you make them.
 
Hwy;51587 said:
Our business is custom graphics for bikes, cars and trucks. Vintage repro's are my favorite to reproduce.
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you should make them for modern and vintage huskys, advertise here and sell piles of them. :thumbsup: We all want graphics and there is not a lot to choose from, especially state side.
 
frog;51807 said:
Will they stick to DC plastics? I restoring a 1983 250XC and will need graphics soon.Planned on ordering MXM from the UK,but if you make them.
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Uh no, not DC plastics!:eek: Just kidding. Yes, they stick like the devil - much better than OEM and thicker too.
I've recently completed a vintage KTM that was running DC plastics for a full graphics set. They were off by 1/4 to 3/8" using OEM templates...what a pain to retro fit to DC plastics.

I know there is not much of a choice but you'll find that you may not be happy with fit unless they are specific to DC plastics.
 
Motosportz;51816 said:
you should make them for modern and vintage huskys, advertise here and sell piles of them. :thumbsup: We all want graphics and there is not a lot to choose from, especially state side.
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I tried that with other makes and everyone thought it was a great idea, and were going to order and "I want some" and "I'm in" and blah....blah.. but quite frankly the market is too small.

We now only do custom one-off's for vintage bikes provided you have originals to work from for correct color and size. Our graphics are hands down better than anyone's - guaranteed!

Here a sample of some recent work:
 

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If you have them for a 1983 Husky 250XC, I need a set.Thanks
 

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not thick stuff, but neither are my HP plate replica's, too expensive to source/set up and like the man said to small a market
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We'd be willing at producing a kit of maybe one or two specific models that are popular providing originals are available to work from.
We use only the BEST material available for reproduction and are a whooping 20 mils thick.
Hands down the best quality of any graphics you've seen - guaranteed!
 
Hi, I think a good product would be the Husky Products clear tank protectors. I will order 3 sets right now. Your Spyder graphics look great.
Bill


Hwy;67898 said:
We'd be willing at producing a kit of maybe one or two specific models that are popular providing originals are available to work from.
We use only the BEST material available for reproduction and are a whooping 20 mils thick.
Hands down the best quality of any graphics you've seen - guaranteed!
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Some HP tank protectors would be very nice indeed. I can attest to the quality of Leftys HP plates as have them on my bike.
 
I can back up Arts quality from the ones he sent me, they are awesome. Thick, shiny and really stick. Yes Art, I have already used them up! Thanks again.
 
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