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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My '84 500AE MX Project

and here's what went into the build.....and in case you've got a spare 3K and you'd like to own it, just PM me :)

If Husqvarna had made a Works Motocross version of their 1984 500 automatic, it probably would have looked something like this. This bike has had a complete restoration job:

Frame has been bead blasted
Frame sprayed with 2 coats black gloss
New swingarm bearings
New swingarm bolt
New steering head bearings
New fatbar handlebar risers
New Protaper fat bars

Front forks fitted with Race Tech Gold Valve emulation kit
Rear Ohlins twin shocks revalved by Race Spec, UK

New wheel bearings
Rims blacked, front & back
New stainless steel spokes
New tyres
New front brake linkages
New brake shoes front & back

New mudguards
New '83 seat base
New '83 seat foam
Custom printed Husqvarna seat cover
New '83 aluminium tank, tank rubbers, cap and fuel tap

New chain
New 12T front sprocket
New 52T titanium Sidewinder rear sprocket
New chain tensioner

Newly blacked crank cases
Bead blasted barrel and cylinder head & plug
Digital engine hour meter
1st overbore cylinder & piston kit
New engine hex bolt set
HVA Factory exhaust
FMF Core 2 silencer

CDI electronic ignition
V-Force reed valve & cage
Venhill 600A throttle assembly
Handmade Lectron flat slider carburetor
New TwinAir filter

Box of original parts, 20 litres auto fluid

This motorcycle can be viewed and picked up in Berkshire, United Kingdom.
Delivery to Calais possible.
 
I 've the answer :)
https://encheres.catawiki.eu/kavels/10960175-husqvarna-500ae-1984

An another Black series but one top 510
The Black is fashionable this year in UK ? :confused:

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fabrice said:
hello
congratulation !
I have also an AMX 500 83
have you sell your bike in UK ?
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Hey Fabrice, yeah it sold on Catawiki yesterday, which is good because I need the money before a big move but I feel a little melancholic about it going...... but c'est la vie I guess.....
 
Hey
fabrice said:
it's interesting !
Can you give me more info by mail ?
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Fabrice, long time no chat !!! We have now been living in the US for 2 years and I personally am loving it (my wife still misses England but she is slowly warming to life in the States.

The guy who bought my project 500 AE has a Facebook page 'Maurice Garage' so you can follow his page (and contact him) via FB. That's where I found this video:

https://www.facebook.com/140280123139522/videos/2259562220961123/?q=maurice garage&epa=SEARCH_BOX

So good to see & hear it running, just love that sound !!!
 
Wow, Prices are up, you'll miss them, but life goes on...It's better to have had it & sold then to have just wished you built them.
 
Howdy folks, it's been a while...I hope you've all been happily braaaping away in your own parts of the world. Since selling my beloved 500 AE project prior to our move to the US, I've never stopped thinking about it, but on a promising note, it seems the guy I sold it to still has it, sitting in the corner of his workshop. Now I have this dream of returning to Europe one day and buying it back off the guy.....I'll keep you posted on that front.

In the meantime, I found a guy just down the road from me in New Jersey who told me he had a couple of vintage Husky crossers that he was looking to get rid of, to empty his storage unit - it was costing him too much each month and he wasn't riding any longer since injuring his back.

I told him I didn't have space for 2 more bikes, not even another one to be honest, but when he said they were both 430 CRs, I decided I had to at least see them, so I did. I had a budget in mind for one bike (the better of the 2 he sent me pics of) but when I got there he made me an offer for both which was under what I had budgeted for one.

So here's my next project, and the purists in this group who were critical of some of the things I did to the 500 AE will be happy to know I'm going completely stock on this 430 CR (I'm keeping the one with the original tank)

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DeathFromAbove said:
You LUCKY SOB!! Where in NJ! Your gonna have some fun with those!!
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I know right ! I told the wife I was going out to pick up a bike and when she saw me return with 2 in the truck bed I had some quick explaining to do lol
The 500 I did was beautiful and as mentioned I hope to buy it back one day, but that job took me around 3 years, this one is gonna be quicker turn around so I can start using it.....I feel just as excited when I got my first XR75 back in 1976 lol
 
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