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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Post up pictures of your vintage Husqvarna bikes!

Here the 1979 390CR I finished for my son about a month ago. He's had a chance to ride it a couple times and loves it. I added a couple before pic's for comparison.

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Husq.fleet said:
Very nice! What forks are those?
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Hi Husq.fleet

50mm WP modified to take a drum brake (removed caliper mountings and welded a torque arm bracket) as per this photo...
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Oh had a new spindle machined plus one sleeve and the rest was bolt straight on...

Stu
 
Agreed, very nice! I was thinking the same type thing, for an earlier bike, and wondering how easy it would be, and how good it would look. Sounds simple enough, and looks great.
 
Finally finished and running sweetly, empahsis on the running sweetly bit which has taken longer than the rebuild.
Impossible to keep white white I see.....

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Michel Dufayard said:
Need some stickers on the radiators shrouds to be almost good , and change that pink bar.
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Hi Michel, I've seen your wizzy radiators before and very much admire them.

Is that an original front fender? It looks good. If it's a copy, could you tell me where to buy from please?

Kind regards
Lucien
 
My recent craigslist FIND :banana: spent three days changing fluids and mostly cleaning.:eek:
Painted the handel bars, top triple, kickstand. Installed aluminum water pump,husky forks 87-88 003.jpghusky forks 87-88 002.jpgPicture 012.jpg NOS skid plate,
and headlight.:applause:
 
Michel Dufayard said:
Husky Jim
Where did you find a aluminum water pump ?
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Michel,
I bought a really rough 85 250cr for spare parts and it was on it.
I know Husky Products used to make them back in the mid 80s
but I had never seen one until I found this one.
Starting my 86 430ae restoration next!
 
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