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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My before & after frame pics, it was sandblasted then sprayed a gloss black. The rims are anodized black, with new stainless steel spokes and a Sidewinder titanium rear sprocket.
It also shows the HVA Factory chunky footpegs and the HVA Factory break pedal. I've also fitted a pair of Acerbis foot peg spring covers.
And I decided to go with a set of Michelin S12 tyres
More to come.......
 

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The bike and I are on the extreme S.W. coast of Ireland. We're on the Atlantic. The next land you come to is the States. I'm 67, do you think that's a little old for this stuff ? Nahhhhhhhh !!

Spring Chicken! but you will be a deaf spring chicken with that "silencer":eek: , While the USA may be the next land mass, point that pipe at them and they will hear it!!:mad:
have a look a few other bikes and see the neater NAD's they have on the end of the exhaust pipe (Noise Attenuating Device):D

My family come from a little town called Ballycahill in cork, bucket list is trip to BC to check out the "house of Munster" family crest

if I hear a loud husky, I will know its you!
cheers
 
Magumn,no longer around.I believe the same guy now builds them for vintage iron(retro rocket).Not sure if they make one like that for a 400. It makes great power and tucks in nicely.
 
Fresh from a meth shack deep in the Mojave desert, via police auction and a craigslister friend-of-the-force.

$400 and it runs, I know because it revved away due to a stuck throttle cable. The sellers were just staring at it (no kill button) and it was going to seize, so I reached over and yanked the plug wire. So I already have pain-equity in it.
 

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I love this bike more every day.
 
Pain equity.. I feel your pain and the burn in your elbow where the spark jumps across:eek: I hate lectric shox...doesn't do the "pacemaker " any good at all.

just remember before starting any bike with no kill button..listen for the return slide "clunk" several times...

could have been funnier if they had whacked it into gear to try and stall it:lol:
 
Here is a photo of my 1976 Husqvarna 360 WR which I began restoring last Christmas. The entire motorcycle was striped down to it's smallest components and completely rebuilt to showroom condition.

The bike laid in a barn in northern California for 13 years before being retrieved last December. The piston was seized to the ring but the cylinder was in great shape. The engine is in pristine condition with all seals and bearings being replaced in their entirety.

I did all of the work including sand blasting all parts for priming and painting. I did the painting as well as the respoking and trueing of the wheels. I also completed the upholstery of the seat including the Husky logo at the rear. I milled the nylon chain guard and guides from solid nylon which I sourced from Paragon Plastics.



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Thor Lawson rebuilt the rear Fox Shox for me and I must say, he did a bang up job restoring them!

Lucien R.
 
Yup.. I posted the wrong photo with no chain on it. Here are the real photos of the completed bike. And a photo of my specially bred Husqvarna guard dog.

Lucien R.
 

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Here's a before and after of the rear swing arm and shocks. Thor Lawson rebuilt the Fox Shox to showroom condition.

Lucien R.
 

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That's a Yamaha dog...you can see the wrinkles where he is always trying to figure out why it bucked him off?
 
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