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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

New 1985 Husky

N

new_husky_owner

Husqvarna
C Class
I recently bought a new bike, to me anyway. Ive never owned a Husky before Ive always had KTMs or RMs. The guy at the salvage shop says its a 420 or above and the year is an 85. I was runnin a bit low on cash and picked this up cheap. It looks to be complete other than buying a kickstarter and the clamps to hold the bars on are gone as well.
If anyone has any parts to sell please for it drop me a line.

Is there any advice I can get on this bike?? Im hoping the motor will be fine at least until I get it going. I didnt try to start it because the kickstarter was gone so I bought one on Ebay. I hope to get it ready to ride by next spring.
 
Moving to vintage where the people hang out that can help you, and there are the vintage classifieds to post wanting to buy - some buy/sell people sometimes only read the classifieds.

:cheers:
 
Post a picture if you can

new_husky_owner;65741 said:
I recently bought a new bike, to me anyway. Ive never owned a Husky before Ive always had KTMs or RMs. The guy at the salvage shop says its a 420 or above and the year is an 85. I was runnin a bit low on cash and picked this up cheap. It looks to be complete other than buying a kickstarter and the clamps to hold the bars on are gone as well.
If anyone has any parts to sell please for it drop me a line.

Is there any advice I can get on this bike?? Im hoping the motor will be fine at least until I get it going. I didnt try to start it because the kickstarter was gone so I bought one on Ebay. I hope to get it ready to ride by next spring.
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Hi New_husky_owner,

Welcome to the team...

Post up a picture. It doesn't matter what state it's in... The guys on the forum are really helpful so you'll have no problem in getting back to it's former glory.

If you can find the chassis number it can be identified then you'll know for sure. You'll be able to find parts and owners manuals for quite a number of the years in the Vintage/Left Kickers.... just take a little time to nose about.

I have an '85 500CR which I am slowly putting back together (highlights in the restoration section).

Looking forward to seeing your Husky.

Stu
 
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