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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

troublemaker said:
To slow the primates from stealing it.The detectives are convinced that the thieves are coming back to take other stuff they saw when in my shop the last time.
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That sucks, to have chain down your stuff, inside your own shop!! WTF and I thought East St. Louis was bad!!

Love the forks by the way. They look like they belong on the bike and they match the rear shock.
 
husky jim said:
That sucks, to have chain down your stuff, inside your own shop!! WTF and I thought East St. Louis was bad!!

Love the forks by the way. They look like they belong on the bike and they match the rear shock.
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Thanks,now I need to work on the wheels,I want to powdercoat the front hub black and get a gold rim for the front.
You been riding your bike much?
 
husky jim said:
That sucks, to have chain down your stuff, inside your own shop!! WTF and I thought East St. Louis was bad!!

Love the forks by the way. They look like they belong on the bike and they match the rear shock.
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Going tomorrow to Mark Twain National Forest. We have a 70 mile loop there mostly singletrack. My buddy and I will be switching off between my 88 husky 250wr and my 04 Ktm 250exc. His ktm 200 sprung a oil leak. Not riding the 430 yet. I rode it once on a night ride as an Automatic before I changed to the six speed. Plan on getting it out next month at Russ's Poker Run. I do plan on riding it regularly all winter.
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Pretty much need to sort out the shifting issue and she is done in my eyes.
 
cbyrne131 said:
Pretty much need to sort out the shifting issue and she is done in my eyes.
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Looks good, but what's up with the cable hanging out the radiator shroud?
Looks like the cable would be an easy snag for a tree limb. You should route the cable under the tank.
 
Good to see a couple of 73 WR250 RT's. I've just acquired one and starting to looking for parts and will be putting in electronic ignition (this has a combination of Femsa and Motoplat currently != no spark). I like the Baja Design's light kit on the 400 and may look at this myself. Link to Project report and my website.

Any tips or comments welcome.

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husky jim said:
Looks good, but what's up with the cable hanging out the radiator shroud?
Looks like the cable would be an easy snag for a tree limb. You should route the cable under the tank.
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Thanks guys!

The cable is like that because no matter how much I dump lube in it, the throttle isn't smooth unless it is routed out the side like that. I'm going to order a new cable one of these days... (probably a rust pocket in it somewhere)
For now, the bike is more of a parade bike to show off with and go 2 tracking/fire trail exploring. I'm saving up for a new dual sport to go trailing with. Preferably a bike with easy to find and cheap parts. I fall more than I care to admit on the low speed technical trails in my area. This Husky has a new easily life of short shifting, garage storage, and following my nephews and nieces around on their 85cc's. That new bmw/husky 650 looks mighty nice, but I feel it might be too big for the trails.
 
go 300 ktm 2 stroke. easiest bike to ride and has central gyroscope that prevents falling off. you can tune out the power hit and move it down to the low end of the rev range to make a tame hill creeper that has a smooth power take up. useless at any road work but cuts down falls by 30 percent in the dirt...add in the electric leg and you have a great bike for the old and infirm like me...
 
suprize said:
go 300 ktm 2 stroke. easiest bike to ride and has central gyroscope that prevents falling off. you can tune out the power hit and move it down to the low end of the rev range to make a tame hill creeper that has a smooth power take up. useless at any road work but cuts down falls by 30 percent in the dirt...add in the electric leg and you have a great bike for the old and infirm like me...
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Looking forward to the video of your gyroscope like progress $100 hill !
 
This is not really vintage but of pic of my 1978 Husky CR390 racebike, at a race in 1978.

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I raced a CR250 and CR390 all that season. I placed 3rd overall in Canadian amateur championships with the bike shown. The bikes were mostly reliable except for the gear boxes. I ended up with a collection of 17 broken gears that season, mostly 3rd gears that would strip off the teeth. When changing trany oil it was almost expected to have a tooth or 2 come out. I also raced the 360auto a few times. I was able to go pretty fast on it but it was unnerving on down hills to have it essentially go into neutral if you rolled off the throttle. Only solution was WFO. Those are home made custom number plates. Love the massive 17" rear tire. Cam.

PS. At the end of the season I sold the bike to a buddy who put lights on it an licensed it for the street. The original DualSport bike.
 
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