• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 project - '75 CR250

olbooker

olbooker

Husqvarna
A Class
HuskyCR250.jpg


Finally decided to work on bringing this Husky back to life.

One of my way too many project bikes. Don't remember how much I paid for it... $200 or so. It is missing exhaust, which I have on the way, and it does have some wrong forks on it. Makes it look like the chopper Husky didn't build. I have another set of forks here somewhere.

Is that a correct rear fender color for this year and model? I know it is missing the lower splash guard also. I was looking at DC Plastics and the fenders only come in white or translucent in their listing for the '75.

Oscar
 
No that rear fender is not correct. Vintage Husky has fenders for it, that's where I got mine from.
 
Thanks Tommy. Vintage Husky it is. Their pricing is better and they also have the inner fender guard.
 
Hey if you have anymore questions just ask as I have a few 75 & 76 250CR's myself.
Do you know what rear shocks those are ?, they look like they might have been painted along with the frame.
 
Not sure about anything with this bike. Here are some close-up pics of the shocks. And yes, someone did spray paint over them.

HuskyLR.jpg


HuskyRR.jpg
 
Get a parts manual (on this site & elsewhere) and owner's manual- great place to start. The forks are later model 40mm and waaaaay too long, that's why it rides like a chopper. These came with 35mm "black leg" ('77 they were leading axle) forks with about 7.5" travel. I think elsewhere on this site is a test on this model.
 
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