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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

DSC02576.JPGDSC02572.JPGWell I have a work in progress 1987 wr430,purchased from the original owner.I listened to an hour of stories about this bike.It has some pretty neat upgrades to make it function better in all areas. The Up-tite nickel chrome plated pipe and the Suzuki inverted forks,rebuilt and re valved Ohlins rear shock,heavy duty skid plate,Rental bars make it a great comfortable bike.
I bought it looking like a bad dream,missing radiator shrowds,the ignition was bad(story in itself),sun beaten etc.But I took my time looked,searched and walla here it is.
 
AzHuskyRider said:
View attachment 79033View attachment 79034Well I have a work in progress 1987 wr430,purchased from the original owner.I listened to an hour of stories about this bike.It has some pretty neat upgrades to make it function better in all areas. The Up-tite nickel chrome plated pipe and the Suzuki inverted forks,rebuilt and re valved Ohlins rear shock,heavy duty skid plate,Rental bars make it a great comfortable bike.
I bought it looking like a bad dream,missing radiator shrowds,the ignition was bad(story in itself),sun beaten etc.But I took my time looked,searched and walla here it is.
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those sure look like WP 4054s to me what Suzuki gave those up?
 
AzHuskyRider said:
View attachment 79033View attachment 79034Well I have a work in progress 1987 wr430,purchased from the original owner.I listened to an hour of stories about this bike.It has some pretty neat upgrades to make it function better in all areas. The Up-tite nickel chrome plated pipe and the Suzuki inverted forks,rebuilt and re valved Ohlins rear shock,heavy duty skid plate,Rental bars make it a great comfortable bike.
I bought it looking like a bad dream,missing radiator shrowds,the ignition was bad(story in itself),sun beaten etc.But I took my time looked,searched and walla here it is.
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odd to see a WR without the rear hoop and WR rear fender
 
those forks are off of an 89/90 rm/rmx 250. same exact forks as an early Italian Husky. they are KAYABAS. (KYB)
 
i have a complete 2000 cr250r (honda) front end on my 1986 wr400. all i had to do was machine the o.d. of the bearing races .015 on a cylindrical grinder to fit in the husky frame and made a 1/4 " spacer for under the top triple clamp. pretty easy install. now it stops and the fork seals dont leak every ride. :cheers:
 
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