• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Mag 250

nick nack

nick nack

Husqvarna
C Class
Hi there Husky lovers, this is my 1974 mag 250cr i brought last year,To use at vmx every blue moon! I was brought up dribbing over a 1973 400cr in my fathers packing shed from the age of about 6 to the age of 21 when the old boy gave me the bike,was in bits,as it had a big end nock,Dad got it off one of two sweeds that were traveling nz picking fruit,just so happened one winters day when they had a ride at owl orchard it nocked,and he swapped it for a old hydra ladder of dads to go contracting,as i said it sat there for about 15 years before i rapped it,got it running and as dumb as i was at 21 with out money,sold it,sore point in my life,i found it! sitting in a nother packing shed,to this day! within about 5 kms form where i sold it from,moving on,i looked for a 400 but nothing realy werth the love,so i found this in a small colection and had to buy it,so just doing forks and shocks,plus a going over b4 riding next month, sorry for all the dribble!Nick Nack.
 

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Cheers Death,Got the day off work,sun is out and forks 1/2 done now, seal kit ready to fit,this site is mint! so mean tips and question i have,i find here! get these forks working and onto new rear shocks and gearing this arvo,

So the day didnt end with all this done dam it! forks done! mint,tested the front wheel around the other way,but the brake cable is to short,so ill spin it back around,had to fiddle with front gard bolts and mount spacer,made some,hate a front gard on the piss!pulled the tripple clamp off and seen why it was yuke,lower bear cage is mush,so made do with other bears eq... seems like im going in circles all day.just like at work too lol.
The fork Job: so after cleaning it all up i fitted a set of leading axle fork spring,they were 10mm longer,and used 20 weight rock fork oil,left all the rest stock,but i may rob the caps off those other forks as they have air bleeders, dont know if runing 5 pis will give them a little more plush at the top? i did the oil leave at 5 & 1/2 inc from top.maybe to much,bit i wont know until i get a leg over it,
 
Some more progress tonight, new shocked fitted to rear end,I brought vonkat 13.5 inc slim line as i was having chain rub problems,seem to be nice,time will tell.removed front sprocket,going from 10t to a 13t,forks are holding here oil so far, trying to find some 8mm valve steems ,or are they euro thread in the black-leading axle forks from about 1977 ??
 
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