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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Online buying parts rant or warning........

Bigbill

Bigbill

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Besides in my last post about this besides calling the parts the wrong year and wrong size engine. What I'm seeing now is a shift in offerings. The prices of used parts is way too high but now they strip each engine down to the case, crank and tranny as far as they can go then ask the price of a complete engine. I can assemble a rolling frame for much less than I pay to build a engine for. They even sell the screws and drain plug seperate. I won't even get into the gas tank prices. Shop around. Bill
 
Basic economics (Supply and Demand). This old stuff is drying up. I sell new OEM gas tanks for starting at $2000.00 why because I can. Been storing them for 40-50 years keeping them safe now I want to get paid for the time and effort. Same with engine and other parts. The older it is the more it"s worth....
Later George
 
Your right George. i guess the more these vintage Husqvarnas catch on the higher the demand the higher the cost goes. Your right new oem gas tanks? They would be in my man cave.
 
Modern Bikes are no different. If You have a bike thats 2 years old you can sell it for more if you part it out. The more rare the bike ( like an Italian made one ) the bigger the advantage of parting it out.
 
Frustrating yes, but I cant fault them for trying as long as the description is accurate. One guy, digidave has some annoying listings - like a single rusted bolt for $29, or worn out rubber parts that are listed as rare vintage, but are still available new through a dealer. But those buyers get what they deserve for not educating themselves. For me, the best parts come from enthusiast forums like this one.
 
But I also see that some of these parts are for sale Year after Year, and nobody is ever going to buy a $29 rusted out bolt. What really gets me is when somebody lists a new part 177 times so that it takes up page after page. I will never ever buy from somebody who does this.
 
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