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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

more on the new addition to the stable.

oldhuskychuck

oldhuskychuck

Husqvarna
A Class
finally hooked up with the guy this morning, picked up the 400CR..
a trip to the car wash did wonders for this ol girl..
talked him out of the dealer sign to hang in my shop...
a mild restoration will be done..tires, fenders, seat and maybe the tank..
other then repair of the broken parts,,she will be as it is now..
ill clean the tank out, as well as the Bing...and see if she fires and rides..hasnt run since 1990..
 

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this is a factory Husky racer, he raced on the shops team..likely its a pro fab aftermarket.
as are the forks, and rear shocks.. alot of the factory bikes iv seen have had the same sort of set up.
what he told me was that when Bill Thomas ordered the bike, they added a factory race susp, set up on the order sheet.
pictured below is the original owner racing the bike in 1973 74.
 
oldhuskychuck;104919 said:
this is a factory Husky racer, he raced on the shops team..likely its a pro fab aftermarket.
as are the forks, and rear shocks.. alot of the factory bikes iv seen have had the same sort of set up.
what he told me was that when Bill Thomas ordered the bike, they added a factory race susp, set up on the order sheet.
pictured below is the original owner racing the bike in 1973 74.
Click to expand...

no pic :excuseme:
 
Thats a very good looking bike with history to it that money cant buy!

Im part way through a restoration on a 73' CR400 -

Good luck and keep us posted on how it runs after all these years!!!
 
well,
i found out why he stopped riding the bike,,,no sparky...so i called and cornered him about it,,,he admited, that one day it just stopped, and he pushed it back to the pits..
all it was , was the dreaded black wired coil that was a POS in those days, swapped it out for a red wired coil, and she sparks right up..
made me wonder about his wrenching abillity...oh well, that was many moons ago.
i need to let the tank sit with cleaner in it for a couple days...little crud inside..air filter just fell apart..nasty.
 
Only thing I ever had close to that was a early 70's MX400 (pre YZ) Yamaha. Was actually a good bike. Fast and low. I got it from the Shop owners son who raced it, was well tuned and updated. Was nearly as good as my YZ465. :) Love to try something like yours one day.
 
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