• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 here and new bike. 430wr 1982

Tractor torque indeed! I have a 1982 xc 430. I have owned this bike for almost 2 years and never rode it. Mainly because the rear shocks were blown. So It just sat. I decided I was going to sell it, so I had the rear shocks rebuilt. We had a play day at my clubs vintage track Saturday. I ride a 85 yz 250 and took the husky with me. I rode the yz first then took a spin on the 430. All I can say is wow!! The power was amazing but the plush ride was even more incredible. I weigh close to 270 and have race-tech suspension set up for me on the yz but the husky was the bike I rode most of the time that day.As old as this bike is, the suspension feels as good as any made today. That was my impression. I am having second thoughts about selling her. The yz just may go instead.
 
RickyDZero said:
Tractor torque indeed! I have a 1982 xc 430. I have owned this bike for almost 2 years and never rode it. Mainly because the rear shocks were blown. So It just sat. I decided I was going to sell it, so I had the rear shocks rebuilt. We had a play day at my clubs vintage track Saturday. I ride a 85 yz 250 and took the husky with me. I rode the yz first then took a spin on the 430. All I can say is wow!! The power was amazing but the plush ride was even more incredible. I weigh close to 270 and have race-tech suspension set up for me on the yz but the husky was the bike I rode most of the time that day.As old as this bike is, the suspension feels as good as any made today. That was my impression. I am having second thoughts about selling her. The yz just may go instead.
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sounds like a swede to me!
 
Kartwheel68 said:
Easy choice. Sell the YZ and keep the Husky. If you want another YZ later on down the road there are tons of them available cheap.
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True enough Kartwheel, only problem is this yz has been rebuilt from the ground up and it will be hard to come across another in this good of shape and I wont let it go cheap (1500 would be the least I would take).
 
our lives are short...keep the ones yo like to ride..the swedes fit big guys for sure..
also, as a rule..keep the bike with ohlins!
 
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