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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

G

gixxerw1

Husqvarna
A Class
1988 Cagiva WMX 250. I have known this bike for 15 years. I have worked on it twice for the previous owners. One of the owners was a past plant manager i had. It was his harescramble bike from the early 90's. He asked me to get it running back in 2000 for him after it sat in his garage for 8 years, so after 5 days and $700 worth of parts it was running real good most of that was a rebuild on the shock. He was at the southwick nationals 2 years ago doing the amayuer race on monday and had a massive coronary on the starting line. A freind bought it off of his wife. He rode it maybe 3-4 times in the last 9 years. I just picked it up off of him. Needs some things. Silencer, wheel bearings in the rear, swing arm bearings, chain sprockets, brakes, cables possibly if i can't loosen them up. I plan on riding the thing so it wont look as good as the pic motosportz put up but mechanically it will be sound. Possibly do a couple sportsmans class harescrambles on it next year. Yes it does run fired it up today.

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Desticker it, clean it up a little and it looks like it will show real good. Pretty modern looking bike for an 88.
 
my friend has a 83 wxe?

My buddy has a 1983 dual shock, 250 wxe?, Cagiva's are cool old bikes,
just don't know what the parts availablity here is?

I was offer one for free a few years back & when i checked on top end
parts (which it needed) i couldn't find any listings ,so i passed on it.

John
 
Halls has most everything i need. Plus i have a line on a complete parts bike i might pick up next week. If i was afraid of parts availability i never would own Husky's. You guys know how it is lol.
I have clean fenders for it now dug thru my husky stuff found a couple older acerbis fenders that fit it. Like you said though have to do something about the handlebar position way too low. Foot pegs are another thing i have to look at, they are small to almost non existant.
 
Thats the other thing do i call it a Cagivarna or Huscagiva? It does have "H" stamped in a few places but the stickers and engine say Cagiva.
It is an 88 after a quick VIN check. I think i also have new wheel/swingarm bearings in the box of Husky stuff i have. Its funny after years of owning only Husky how much you accumulate!
 
yes my 1991 350 4 stroke too

Yeah, my 91 350 4 stroke has "H" 's all over the place, but says
Cagiva on the ignition cover on the inside.
 
Rode it around yesterday in the yard, after finding i had some wheel bearings and reattaching the silencer. I fouled 2 plugs getting it running because of how much oil the guy put in the cylinder to store it. The carb how ever was nasty but after a 20 minute soak in berrymans it is all set now. It has the dellorto with the idle adjustment on the top of the carb. The bike even idles!
Lets just say this thing has animal like power every where. For an older bike it really rips! Now to do up the suspension bearings (swingarm/linkage), put some bar risers and different bars on, get the funky stars and stripes paint off, get rid of some stickers, and i am all set. Any one have an older domino throttle around with the clear plastic cable cover they wouldn't mind parting with?
 
sounds good jim! reading this I was just thinking of pulling nellies old XR200r out of my shed for some work
 
Whats happening Tim. I think it is different. You still have the 610 right? I really have to come up and check that thing out.
 
I didn't know if it would be the same. I figured because it was a 1 cable throttle it would be the same. I have to go out and put the 610 back together. I tore it down yesterday to service all the bearings, and install the ebay shock and exhaust. Got a shock that was revalved by slavens and a single sided exhaust for $40. Lets ride one of these days, the offer still stands that you can spend the day on the 610.
 
Maiden voyage on the Cagiva today. Rode at CATRA in NY with a buddy who is a member.
All i can say is wish i had that motor in a mordern frame! It is a tractor, i rode 2nd gear all day never used first at all 3rd maybe once or twice for the down hills. Even started off in 2nd! It trucks down low then grab some throttle and it halls the front tire skyward!
Now the bad: forks are small and feel like they are bending over everything instead of compressing, brakes: Ummmmm i need some! rear drum has nothing but lock up or off, front slows you down a LITTLE!
After i got the steering stem bearings to stay tight the bike actually handled decent and some what tracked a line.
I have some work to do to make it rideable. All in all a very fun capable bike in the woods.
 
Jim,
Sounds like a great motor, only once removed cousin of my '00 WR250. Brakes.... maybe a serious rebuild of the caliper and master cylinder might help. I thought I remembered that it was a decent front one. Rear brake is fairly hopeless, like any Swedish Husky rear. Is that the same WP front as a '87 Husky 250CR? I never thought of them as flexy. Keep tweaking!:cheers:
 
I think the rotor is glazed over, the guy before me thought the rust on it was bad and i think he oiled it up before storing it, i will take it off and turn it and see how it is. The front end is the 35-36mm WP upside down forks the ones where if you over tighten the axle pinch bolts the aluminum cracks! These aren't cracked though so not too bad. The motor on this beast is the same as a 1991 Husky WR 250. I dont need any more motor! Just have to get everything else sorted out.
 
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