• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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, Unridden 1980 Husqvarna 390 FS in Prescott, ON

I’m sure most would crucify me for this but that bike would definitely be ridden if I were to buy it. Not much but it would see the dirt every now and then. What a beautiful machine!
 
I would have to say never driven ? Well why does the rear shock have such a non standard colored shock body and blue springs.

I did about 4 years ago talk with a great
husky fan that spent about 7500 for that 430 that was sold still in a crate. He was from New Zealand.

Thats my fantasy is to find one of these still in a crate.
 
Never ridden? I don't believe it unless the owner has good reason why the shock reservoirs were moved, why the tank knee area was polished, why the rear fender looks incorrect and worn. Something's not right with this picture.
 
Crashaholic said:
Never ridden? I don't believe it unless the owner has good reason why the shock reservoirs were moved, why the tank knee area was polished, why the rear fender looks incorrect and worn. Something's not right with this picture.
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That looks like a terrible place to relocate the reservoir! Am I missing something? Is chain rash helpful?
 
Once I rode my first 78/79 cr390 my 250’s stayed parked. Nobody puts a 390 in the mothballs.
 
+1 wrx
The control levers, the lever dust covers, the front brake cable, the kill switch wire, fuel filter, color of brake pedal vs frame, etc. :naughty:
 
It has been ridden, I can see worn spot in the paint on the frame just above the foot peg. The bike should also have the original Barum rear tire with the gun sight logo on the knobs.
Marty
 
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