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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I found this 1972 Husky 450 WR in Mojave, CA., about a week ago. It had been sitting outside since 1980. I paid $200 for it. The owners dad was a good friend of Parnelli Jones. Parnelli gave him the Husky. It's seems it was Parnelli's bike. I sent out an email to Parnelli's Business Manager and he replied that it looks like one of the bikes Parnelli had and that he was a close friend with owners late father. The owner is looking for a picture with Parnelli, Al Unser and his father with the bike. Kind of a cool story.

The bike has a Pro Fab swingarm and brake arm. It also has a Lectron carb. Notice there is a Parnelli sticker on the air box cover.

I pulled the head and cylinder off and it looked great inside and is ported. I threw a new ring on her and cleaned the carb and just fired her up tonight. Started second kick.

Steve
 

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husky jim said:
Sorry about that, I forgot that Fernando Franco closed up huskyparts.com austrailia on August 1st 2011.
He stated that he was putting all in storage for awhile. I do have his email if needed.
I did talk to Raymond at Hall's Husqvarna and said they can get aluminum water pump housings in black
or natural aluminum for around $160 - $180. A company in europe is making them for Hall's. Hopefully that helps.
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Hi Husky Jim
do you have the Raymond email please ?
I'm in Europe and I choose this special Aluminum Water Pump in natural for my AMX500LC
thanks and regards
Fabrice
 
fabrice said:
Hi Husky Jim
do you have the Raymond email please ?
I'm in Europe and I choose this special Aluminum Water Pump in natural for my AMX500LC
thanks and regards
Fabrice
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Fabrice, the early 1990s 510lc also came with aluminum w/p. I have been finding them on ebay from time to time.
 
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WR430 1981 prior to the refurb, after and in action. I am not sure what I enjoy most the "working on" or "riding on".
 
Mate of mine was a "worker", bike always in bits in the shed.... everytime you actually got him out for a ride he would b*tch and whinge about something not being right and strip it down again (he became a Mr Mc Hanic).
It got him at the local state round enduro with a bike missing and farting all day long! (83 xc 250) when he finally found that he had left the coil mounting bolts loose:D he stopped fiddling for a while after that!
 


The bike sitting idle, holding up the bush lemon tree. What a sad sight, we should have been at Conondale in Queensland racing the Vinduro Sprint, but the rain (flood) put an end to that.

The photo below taken at last years event...:)

 
Hi everyone.

New member and with a new bike.
Bought this fully restored CR500 1985-1987 a couple of weeks ago.

It has been modified with a Yamaha front fork and some Excell-Rims, otherwise its more or less a bike built by NOS items.
Runs like a charm and went trough (Almolst) MOT last week.

A little video my friend made.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdH5ZW59ps4

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Have a nice day.
//Niklas
 
Bought this a few months ago
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Didn't really need it at the time as i have too many bikes already but it was too good to pass up and I have to say I really like it.:applause:
Since then I have given it a good going over and service and began setting it back up in it's enduro form.

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Looks good and goes just as well
All I need to do now is master the art of starting it when it's hot ;)
 
Here is the low bucks 360. It was given to me so I kept a low bucks theme to the restoration. I did have some of the stuff I needed from other vintage projects.
I put a 38 Mikuni on it because I could not get the Bing to run well down low. How you see it is what you would see in the California Desert circa 1976/77. Curnutt shocks, skid plate and Vesco Skinny-fat tank. The plate on the front is from 77. Even though the WR was available many guys ran CR's in the desert.
 

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