• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Latest Project

Ron

Ron

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi Guy's,

Okay, I know it's not a Husky. But you all know I'm a Husky guy first.
I just wanted to share my latest project.

I've had this thing in my shed forever, can't even remember who I got it from. I was surprised I was able to find so many of it's parts in that mess, so I decided to pull it out and restore it.

I'd been wanting something to putt around town on and help keep my reflexes sharp, turning 60 next month "If you don't use it you lose it".

Anyway, here's a 1970 Yamaha 250 Enduro DT1C, I just finished. I still have to get it licensed and get a motorcycle license for myself. Gee, I hope I can pass the test. LOL

Believe it or not, those are DOT tires, Dunlop D606's. Supposed to be a decent off road tire, but still street legal. I'm sure to find a trail now and then.

Ron





 
Looks super nice bud! I love a little putt here and there on my 250.
My neighbour is restoring a 65 125 2 stroke Kawi street legal bike, love them old toads.
 
as you get older you could customize it so it is lower and EZer to get on :D

Yamaha-DT250-The-Gravel-Crew.jpg
 
Ron, that looks awesome! I had a new 125 AT1 enduro in 1970. Those things were indestructible. I remember standing on the side of the bike to kick to kick start it european style, like my Penton and Husky friends. They would
shake their heads and say, "why don't you just press the electric start button".? Well...because that just wasn't cool back then!
 
I had a BSA 250 of that general vingage. It looks like new. Note how much arc and how the kick starter is placed relative to the footpeg. Comapre that to a modern 250 husky. And the seat, are the modern manufacturers really seriously trying to broaden their customer base for this class of bike? Is that dual sport or dual purpose? Does it have primary kick? How is the engine noise compared to a similar air cooled Husky?

Fran
 
Ron said:
Hi Guy's,

Okay, I know it's not a Husky. But you all know I'm a Husky guy first.
I just wanted to share my latest project.

I've had this thing in my shed forever, can't even remember who I got it from. I was surprised I was able to find so many of it's parts in that mess, so I decided to pull it out and restore it.

I'd been wanting something to putt around town on and help keep my reflexes sharp, turning 60 next month "If you don't use it you lose it".

Anyway, here's a 1970 Yamaha 250 Enduro DT1C, I just finished. I still have to get it licensed and get a motorcycle license for myself. Gee, I hope I can pass the test. LOL

Believe it or not, those are DOT tires, Dunlop D606's. Supposed to be a decent off road tire, but still street legal. I'm sure to find a trail now and then.

Ron
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Really nice job:thumbsup: I remember them on the MX and flat tracks and all the aftermarket support they had.
 
Good looking dt.I've been sitting on a 68 dt for some years,maybe some day.Enjoy your yamaha!
 
My second bike was my father's 1970 Yamaha CT1B. It was not as good handling as the 1970 Hodaka 100B I had just come off from but the engine was nice for the era. My father had blueprinted the engine, cleaned up the ports, and stuffed the crank with epoxy saturated corks. I had it until 1977 when I sold it to a friend in school when I got my MR250. He blew something in the transmission so I went through for him as a favor. The corks in the crank were still intact, and if I had it to do over again I would have kept the engine and put it into the 72 175 Puch my father replaced the CT1B with. The Puch was hard to get parts for and expensive. I rode the Puch in 3 junior enduros so I loved the handling of it
 
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