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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Oldest Husky rider on CH/Most Husky's owned?

Bengt Husky said:
Here's my stats...

First the old man.

Worked for UK Husky importer (Brian Leask) as a GP Mechanic for 4 of the main British GP guys from 1967 till 1982.

Went across to the Husqvarna factory on numerous occasions met with Bror Jaren who was the MX competions manager for Husqvarna. Was Mechanic for Bryan Wade and Graham Noyce. Also prepared engines for Andy Roberton, Vic Eastwood, John Banks. Was lucky enough to mechanic for Heikki Mikkola a couple of times when he came across to race in internationals in the UK in the mid/late 70's.

Now my Husky resume.

Followed the old man all other the UK and Europe whilst he was mechanicing meeting all the top riders of the day who raced Huskies, Bengt Arberg, Arne Kring, Heikki Mikkola et all. I started racing on a 50cc Suzuki.

Technically I rode my first husky in 1973 although it had a 100cc Zundapp engine. The old man cut down a 125 Husky frame and slotted the Zundapp engine in it as Husky didn't have a 100cc then. I then moved up to racing 125's through the mid/late 70's and was lucky enough to race a full factory 125 for a few British Championship races in 1977 when the British GP rider broke his leg.

1978 I moved up to adult racing on a 250. 1979 saw me flirt with the enemy on a 400 Maico. Then it was back to a 390 Husky for 1980 before switching to a 430 for both 1981 and 1983. In '83 I switched again this time to a Yamaha 490 and had one year and gave up at 22.

I had a short break of 26 years and came back on a 450F suzuki. I switched this year to a 450F Yamaha, but my heart has always been with HUskies and I am searthing the planet for a red tanked 1981 CR 430 to race in the veterans class. So if anyone has one lying about let me know....Steve
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Finally managed to get myself an '82 430...this is how she looks, but she's all stripped down ready for a complete re-build.
 

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Only 58 yrs , have a 85/Wr400 and a 86/Wr240 , still rebuilding the 400 and ride the 240 every Sunday [ for exercise/thrill ]
Have had a love affair with KTM's all my life and don't know why I bought these.:excuseme:
Still they handle pretty good and if I can fix the vibration on the 240 I'll be happy.
 
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