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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

A day in the sunshine

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I am still clean, just doesn't get any better.

PC
 
81 430 WR with 82 tank, 82CR shocks (for a little more height in the rear) and a little port work. Otherwise mostly original. Super nice handling bike with an awesome motor.
 

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Out on the trail. This is turning out to be quite a nice woods bike. I was lucky to find an aluminum spark arrestor and that cleans things up a bit over the stock bazooka. No spooge, running good!
 

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the dynamic duo

78 cr 250 & 76 360 auto daily riders i take these babies everywhere even blow away new bikes in the nastiest mud, steepest rutted out hills, have been riding them for years i love huskys.
 

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Here's a partial resto from a couple of years ago. I found this running but neglected 1987 510TE in San Jose for $300. With the help of the good folks at MotoXotica and Hall's, I was able to spruce the Husky up. A great runner and head turner. The graphics were lifted from the Husq engine service manual and repro'ed.
I do like my air-cooled 86 510TX better though.
 

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cr500-83

Heres my toy a: 83 cr 500.

38flatslide,88 forks,PVL ingt, fatbar,boysenreeds, huskyprodkts pegs and fuelcap+some powdercoat and platings

Yes its an 17" rearweel (the only straight rim i got)

It is living its days at some Mx tracks, at the arctic circle in Norway.

What do you think of my atempt to do an oldschool look insted of the plain white 83 colores.

P,s, hope you can read this, my english grades where no A and B+
 

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tapio;35068 said:
What do you think of my atempt to do an oldschool look insted of the plain white 83 colores.

P,s, hope you can read this, my english grades where no A and B+

I like it! :thumbsup:
 
On the air box i used a Tectyl 190 aerosol can.

Stays on plastic forever and gives a sort of nice flat surface.

but most importan sticks to plastiks and makes i black
 
tapio;35068 said:
P,s, hope you can read this, my english grades where no A and B+

Don't worry. Your english is better than most Americans'! And the bike looks great. I do like the 83/84 bikes done in 81/82 colors!!
 
tapio;35068 said:
Heres my toy a: 83 cr 500.

What do you think of my atempt to do an oldschool look insted of the plain white 83 colores.

P,s, hope you can read this, my english grades where no A and B+

Very cool look. And your English is just fine, way better than my Norwegian.
 
tapio;35068 said:
Heres my toy a: 83 cr 500.

38flatslide,88 forks,PVL ingt, fatbar,boysenreeds, huskyprodkts pegs and fuelcap+some powdercoat and platings

Yes its an 17" rearweel (the only straight rim i got)

It is living its days at some Mx tracks, at the arctic circle in Norway.

What do you think of my atempt to do an oldschool look insted of the plain white 83 colores.

P,s, hope you can read this, my english grades where no A and B+

What kind of bar mounts are you using... they look like billet aluminum riser mounts of some sort and are they Fatbar mounts.... information please? Post up a detail pic of the bar mounts if you can!!!

Very cool looking non white CR500!



T
 
1986 xc400

Not quite old enough yet, but soon. This is my 3rd Husky, l went a bit mad on it.H1 forks, 38mm flatslide,boyesens,dial a jet, ported, piped pretty quick,
l ride it on old gravel logging roads, great fun.
 

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Mr. Tahitian Red,
Love that pic of your 78. Can you tell me what bend those Renthals are? I'm near Sac, by the way. We should go for a Husky ride!
 
Picklito,

Those are Renthal "Jimmy Button" bend bars.

If I get some free time this Fall we should organize a local "Old Husky" ride at one of the OHV parks. (or maybe just Vintage in general?)
:thumbsup:
 
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