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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Lone representitive....

Husq.fleet

Husq.fleet

Husqvarna
AA Class
This weekend in little Athena Oregon about 15 miles north of me will be a-buzz with two strokes. Annual Hodaka Days as Athena Oregon, pop.200-300 was the US headquarters (Pabatco) for Hodaka. My wife grew up 30 yds from it. OK I know that has nothing to do with Vintage Husky's, I'm getting to that. This area was also were the Bad Rock Six Days were also held and they have a reunion ride every year, mostly just dirt roads and some easy trails. It is suppose to be Hodaka only but my good friend and "mixed gas mentor" Harry Taylor gave me permission to ride in it. I dont own a hodaka so I said "I'll have to ride a Husky?" He said that was fine and he said my daughter could ride her TTR-125 also.
Harry was Hodaka's service manager and race development guy from the early sixties untill the demise 76? They usually have a guest invite and this year its Tommy Croft, Rick "Super Hunky" last year, Jim Pomeroy was always here untill his passing and his brother Ron is here every year helping with the vintage MX races.
I'll do my best to uphold some sort of dignity, I'll be on the "garage queen" as my wife calls it, 82 430XC- of course, hope I can keep up:D
 

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I wish I didn't live at the opposite end of the continent from Athena. I'd love to buzz around the streets of Athena with my ACE 100B during Hodaka Days. It's a cool event. I'm sure your Husky will be treated with as much respect as any of the Vintage Hodies.
 
Would love to attend....been quite some time since I've been in Athena. Unfortunately my 500XC is still lacking the attention that I promised it, and I would have to show up in my old Yammy 360MX (which has developed a weird symptom/noise lately). Just too busy to fix that Husky seal, and to install the ext. rotor that I got from by friend in Grand Coulee. Work work work work work....it's just getting in the way, again. Time to retire, I think, and do nothing but play.
 
Had a great time!

Well I tried to do the brand proud but they made the ride 5 miles too long for my fuel tank with no prior mention of refueling someplace in between. Some nice vintage iron at the ride, Hodaka's of course the majority, few Yamaha's, Suzukis, a KTM 400, BSA and two Husky's- a 77 WR250 and my 82 430XC. Staging was one minute leave intervals. When I fired the 430 next to a couple of Hodakas, the guy next to me said his sounded like a weedeater with a bad air filter compared to the Husky!
Ride was suppose to be 40 miles so I thought I would make it on fuel but it was pretty rich and I have a throttle disease. Guy that stopped and gave me some gas out of his Hodaka said a "quart should do" He rode the course last year so I took his word and that got me two miles further/closer.
Had a great time and my daughter did too. They allowed her to run her 02 Yamaha TTR 125 because they said she was a girl and has a pink seat. Tommy Croft and his wife road also and it was nice visiting with them. Ron Pomeroy asked me if that 430 was a handfull on the trail? I said " no problem, power always keeps you out trouble" sorta. I didn't feel to bad because the guy on the WR250 ran out twice with a little yellow 125 tank on it, he also works for Clarke, the tank maufacturer, ribbed him a little about that. Good time and looking forward to it next year- on my 84 WR250
 
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