• 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.

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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

Malcolm Smiths Bike Stories

Crashaholic said:
I thought some of you MS fans may find this as much fun to watch as I did. Malcolm talks about several different euro bikes he owned and raced, BSA, Matchless, Greeves, Triumph, and some bike called a Hooskavarna. He is now about 77, I guess that means I'm getting up there in the years, damn.

Enjoy

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYpnfKmz9Rk
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My wife and I were there for his 50th anniversary event in Riverside,. Excellent museum he has there on the second floor. Malcolm sat there on his stool and narrated the whole thing , then signed copies of his book that he put together. His son Alex and Malcolm's wife were there as well My wife met him over 40 years ago when he had his shop on Laguna Caynon Rd.great guy! My bike came from his shop,(1975 360 CR GP) new, 43 years ago,original condition, one owner! :<)
 
My bike came from his shop,(1975 360 CR GP) new, 43 years ago,original condition, one owner! :<)
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I too purchased a new 75 360 although it was from a different shop that I can't recall. I remember it was a great handling bike. I beat mine up pretty bad racing desert and got rid of it when I purchased my next Husky.

Do you ride your 360 much?
 
Wow, small world Crashaholic;) The Gent I bought it from was the 1 owner, I have had it since Nov.2017. During that time and now, I have rebuilt the carb, forks seals/oil, air filter,gear box oil and various rubber bits, but it still has the original, undamaged,tank and seat,fenders, handle bars and controls, except the grips rubbers,he changed those to anther brand. He said it had never been opened up case wise, Still has the Malcolm Smith sticker on the rear fender:) I have only had it running and looking very forward to riding it!! :banana:
 
That was a great collection of videos! Bought my 449 there and reignited my off road riding passion. I always loved my uncle's Huskies back in the 80's. The highlight of my teenage riding was finally being able to start his 87 430XC with my left leg and take it out for a ride. Pretty sure I've never gone faster in the dirt all my life. I was proud to come full circle and buy my own from none other than Malcolm.
 
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