• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 bikes cremated...the end.

Old Geezer

Old Geezer

Husqvarna
A Class
On Saturday the 25th of January, my garage caught fire and melted down everything inside as well as one car parked outside and one inside. And, to make matters even worse, it destroyed all three of my vintage MX bikes: 1973 Yamaha 360MX, 1983 Husky 500XC, and 1985 Husky 500CR, and my Harley Fatboy.fire+51390782290.jpg
What a royal pisser, to say the least.
Here's a picture of the carnage. In that pile of bike rubbish drug outside of the garage sits three fine would-be bikes. The one standing is the 360; both Huskys are on their sides with everything melted and/or burned off.

Looks like I'll be starting from scratch. Hopefully I run across someone around here that has a vintage bike or two for sale. Need to stay with it, ya know? But for now I've got more pressing concerns, as you can see.

Happened while I was away for a 30 minute store run. Suspected is the garage door opener.
 
man, so sorry to see this...is everyone ok? the bikes and garage cab be replaced rebuilt, but its good you are safe...
still a shame to see them burnt up....i would give you a hand if you werent on the other side of the state...
 
Old Geezer said:
On Saturday the 25th of January, my garage caught fire and melted down everything inside as well as one car parked outside and one inside. And, to make matters even worse, it destroyed all three of my vintage MX bikes: 1973 Yamaha 360MX, 1983 Husky 500XC, and 1985 Husky 500CR, and my Harley Fatboy.View attachment 36931
What a royal pisser, to say the least.
Here's a picture of the carnage. In that pile of bike rubbish drug outside of the garage sits three fine would-be bikes. The one standing is the 360; both Huskys are on their sides with everything melted and/or burned off.

Looks like I'll be starting from scratch. Hopefully I run across someone around here that has a vintage bike or two for sale. Need to stay with it, ya know? But for now I've got more pressing concerns, as you can see.

Happened while I was away for a 30 minute store run. Suspected is the garage door opener.
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Real shame, think there will be a day again when pristine bikes are in your garage. Thoughts are with you from across the pond. Good luck and keep us all posted with progress.
 
Super sorry to hear that. I just happened to be working in my garage at my old house when smoke started rolling out of one of the overhead fluorescent lights. Managed to get the power cut off to it in time. I pulled off the light and found the ballast had mildly exploded and the ceiling above it was just starting to catch fire. That light just happened to be right below my master bedroom. :eek: One of the many reasons our new house has a detached garage.
 
That is a real shame. I can't even imagine how bad you feel. I wish I could help but like Justintendo, I'm all the way in PA. Best to ya.
 
Major bummer. No insurance can reimburse a vintage bike IMO. I hope you are all OK and able to recover one way or another.
 
Sorry for your loss. I have a 1979 or390 in really nice shape with a ton of spare parts that i would sell at a really good price to help you get your collection started again. Pm me if interested,take care:cheers:.
 
that sucks, we should all have a fire extinguisher in the garage, i know i've got to get on now. Not that would have helped you, if you were away.

Should be partially cover by your home owner insurance i'd hope.

Husky John
 
Terrible, I had a garage fire 11 years back, didn't lose any bikes as they were in the shed but lost all my tools etc which I had gathered over 25 years, I cried!! It's all the stuff you have that you've accumulated over the years like spares, nut and bolts, things you just didn't throw a way because you 'might need it some day' that I miss. Obviously the bikes the biggest loss.
 
Everyone, thanks for your kind words and thoughts. One of you summed it up pretty well with a single word: Shit. Yep, that's about it.

No, the homeowners insurance will not cover vehicles (check your insurance policy, you'll most likely find the same). Do not assume that vehicles - cars and/or bikes - are considered covered assetts. Be sure to keep a comprehensive auto policy active even for stored non-driven vehicles. I didn't insure mine during winter storage, with the false assumption that homeowners insurance would cover me for theft and/or fire. BIG mistake, beware. All tolled I lost 6 vehicles.

Yes, the upstairs is part of the house (bedrooms directly above the garage). The sheetrock in the garage ceiling acted as a fine fire barrier, keeping it from getting inside the house proper. Instead, it went up the outside wall and got into the attic. The entire roof structure will need to be replaced.

And yes, tools and spare parts and such that I've accumulated over the past almost 40 years are all toast, though I did manage to find and recover some of my wrenches and socket sets (and spent hours with a wire brush to clean off the baked on grime). Everything else is gone.

Life goes on, regardless. Thank God the firemen were able to rescue my two Golden Retrievers.
 
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