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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Huuuge can of Worms.....

Has the Folan the chain on left side ??
Or it has two chains ???
Michel, please help me ****************************************
 
or this one of mine

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2premo,
FOLAN = THE MASTERPIECE ****************************************!
Michael, now you have to help him....:cheers: ****************************************
 
open throttle.....warp drive!!! faaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr********* me

the general consensus is the 82.5 500 and from a rarity its slightly ahead of the 400LC twin shock .... while some of the wrx brigade are pointing out its short run, the lc twin shoxs were only filling in till they got the single shock frame sorted....
I Like the green tank auto.... just the epitome of Husky. and the black tank 390 is something special.... just as I thought, a can of worms! :eek:

I deliberately avoided the early bikes due to 1. I dont know them at all, 2. the Mqueen / burelson issues cloud judgement and add value.
 
Sorry guys.....you all know I bleed Husky but.....the 82.5 Silver Streak Vibrated like a washing machine on spin cycle with bricks in it. Beautiful, rare, unique but with a weird power band with that 44 mm carb (that is a super cool factor by itself though) but not on my top pick for a rider. Again, the 83 4 strokes......beauty, rare, groundbreaking, but hard to start when hot and had some first year issues. 74 mag 250....everybody wants one now as it is the last and one of the best 74 and prior MX 250 bikes for vintage racing. Remeber it was a mid 74 release and the long travel stuff was coming in the form of the 75 models and Husky dealers could not give them away in late 74. Odd how this happens. Got to stick with my "ass-dyno" and keep with the 84 WR 400. (would maybe be saying WR300 if Andys creation existed in Swedish vision)
 
Joe Chod said:
Sorry guys.....you all know I bleed Husky but.....the 82.5 Silver Streak Vibrated like a washing machine on spin cycle with bricks in it. Beautiful, rare, unique but with a weird power band with that 44 mm carb (that is a super cool factor by itself though) but not on my top pick for a rider. Again, the 83 4 strokes......beauty, rare, groundbreaking, but hard to start when hot and had some first year issues. 74 mag 250....everybody wants one now as it is the last and one of the best 74 and prior MX 250 bikes for vintage racing. Remeber it was a mid 74 release and the long travel stuff was coming in the form of the 75 models and Husky dealers could not give them away in late 74. Odd how this happens. Got to stick with my "ass-dyno" and keep with the 84 WR 400. (would maybe be saying WR300 if Andys creation existed in Swedish vision)
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the question is about being collectible tho...which the 500 is great for...yes, as a rider the lc400 is maybe the best i agree
 
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