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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Just some pics of new but Delayed build of Cr 430

I did a xc seat cover (yellow) with black forks and swingarm and did the shocks in a gold similar too the 82 shox color on my 85 wr twin shocker...its looks poooh:mad:
 
GaryM said:
Thanks for comments. Here is sample of the anodizing color for gold. It just is the hardest to match. Of course rims were painted gold through 81.

This gold on these rims are closer to Sun rim gold.

The steps to prepare rims - well acid dip at anodizer, than sanding nicks out, blending the low areas, polishing the AL, sometime have to re dip in acid
then pulling spokes straight and true to the imperfections of rim.

Heres the gold we came up with Please comment on this gold. Spent a lot of time in
the anodizer shop. Now using Acid Wash at home on tanks and other parts.
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Can anyone confirm that rims were painted and not anodized through 1981? If so, does anyone have a paint code for the gold? Thanks.
 
390wr Jon said:
Can anyone confirm that rims were painted and not anodized through 1981? If so, does anyone have a paint code for the gold? Thanks.
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Yes that is true for the most part but there are exceptions. For example all the 81 and 82 420AE's I have found still used the painted Nordisk rims.

Marty
 
No true paint code per say. Never 100% been able to exactly match it. And even in painted years
you will find that Husky themselves did not match. In anodized years its the same thing may not always match

Of course, aging is a factor too.
 
everfree said:
I've been toying with ways to "tart up" my milk white Huskys. The blue / white color scheme with blue seat is challenging to work with. I've got some ideas but it needs to be tastefully done.

Gary, I have an original unused gold Husky Sun 17" rear rim from 82 if you're interested.
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At www.husqvarnaman.com they offer the yellow seat covers.
https://www.husqvarnaman.com/product-page/grippy-seat-cover

https://www.husqvarnaman.com/product-page/husqvarna-510-tc-limited-edition
Break the norm.
 
i went yellow seat with blue sidecover stickers. i did the fork legs and swing arm in black and painted the ohlins bronze with black springs...the head is candy apple red...im not sure i like it....:doh: its the middle bike if your wondering;) 20170729_163628.jpg
 
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