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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Look what followed me home

Wildebeest you are correct i've been sitting on a pail and a boat cushion to work on my bikes and i thought this frame is junk so lets make a shop stool out of it. The only thing i had to buy was the plate to mount everything to,I had everything else in the shop.I gave 20 bucks for the bike saved the frontend and swing arm and paid 15 bucks for the plate and here is the finished product.To my french friend Visiteur i put the deer decal on the fender just for you.031.JPG033.JPG034.JPG035.JPG
 
very cool, remind me of a 390 motor i've seen turned into a lamp.. wait i've got a 390 with cracked cases...i see another
weather project... LOL
Husky John
 
I might have done something like that with the 1976 frame I have. I decided since it was nothing I wanted to build on soI cut off the subframe and will be welding it onto the 78 OR frame I have with an impaired subframe. The reminder of the 76 frame will be used as chrome moly tubing donor for a few frames requiring repairs and derakes
 
I kept the steering neck thinking some day i will weld it to a old style frame then i will have tapered bearings and can use 40mm tubes.Thats my plan.
tom
 
I actually cut the steering tube out of the 78 OR frame after I harvested the bearing caps to put them in the first 78 Auto frame I got in 2007 for a frame to build a custom TT500. It is funny what can transpire just from the purchase of a single artifact. I plan to derake the 78 OR frame and install a steering neck from a 85 KX125. The steering neck matches the height of the Husqvarna height within .015" and opens up an almost unlimited choice of front ends that can be installed on it
 
More years back than I care to remember, while still serving queen & country (RAF) a fellow biker friend was rebuilding his polished Triumph trident triple (T150) engine in his barrack room:eek:. Come inspection time he removed the centre plug and screwed in a blank with a 60w lamp & shade attached and insisted to the OIC (inspecting officer) that it was his home made bedside lamp:excuseme::lol:
 
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