• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 race vintage and evolution classes here in Washington. I run Pentons in vintage and a Maico in evo. I have two brothers that also race vintage and one of them runs huskies. He helped me out when I had some bike trouble in the evo class and loaned me his 79 390 on a particularly muddy day.

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Cool thing is I found this bike for him


One of my all time favorite pictures. I had paid my pre-entry fee for the AHRMA national at the Farm in Chehalis. The day before the race I take a spin on my Penton to check how its set up and the goofy thing blew up. Argh! No racing for me. When my oldest brother hears this he offers me his 74 250 Mag. He had just started racing a CZ400 so his Mag was sitting unused. Turns out we were both in the +40 class. He spanked me in the first moto. (That 400 two stroke gets a heck of a hole shot.) The second moto I got a better start and kept him in sight. On the last lap I wore him down and made the pass. This shot is about two corners after the pass and about three from the flag. I am 22m and my brother is 96s. He still beat me on the overall but it was nice to rub it in that I beat him on his own bike. The Farm Matt and Eric.jpg
I was actually mighty impressed with how that bike handles.


Here is the aforementioned Penton
Penton in pits @ Farm.JPG




Washougal Maico jump.jpg
oops how did that get in here? :D
 
car_l said:
My "new" bike, a 360 from 1968
I am going to restore it this winter/spring
Project thread: http://boxerville.se/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=136275#p136275

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This is my Husqvarna "Silverpilen" from 1955, my dad used to race it for about 45 years ago.
I have had it for about 10 years.

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Very cool bikes, love the big seat.

Got my bike in the house

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HuskyT said:
Interestingly enough I just inherited a 1969 Ossa Pioneer in running condition from a customer of mine... I'm scheduled to pick it up next week... it has been sitting in his garage now for years...

I have no experience with this bike... never even seen one until I looked it up this week online....

T
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A little slow on this reply due to life getting in the way the last 6-8 months, but it gives me a chance to ask about your Ossa now that you've had it for a while. What do you think?

It's funny what was popular in different parts of the country. In New England in the late 60's and early 70's, the enduro championship standings were basically a parade of Ossa's. It seemed like everybody had one. On the other hand, I doubt they sold more than a handful of them on the west coast.

The Ossa pioneer didn't have a whole bunch of top end (or suspension, or handling), but had enough low end grunt to pull through the plentiful New England mudholes and rocks. Still, when I got off my Pioneer and onto the little Husky I think my speed in the woods improved by 30% immediately. Neither bike had any brakes to speak of - especially when wet - but I guess I felt more comfortable riding something that was 50 pounds lighter and handled 10 times better when I couldn't slow down. Not to mention it was much easier to pull out of a mudhole if I did get stuck. ;)

And now, for a well deserved tribute to Cafe Husky. To my amazement, thanks to the tech section here, after nearly 35 years I may have finally solved the jetting mystery of my 1977 125CR that I mentioned in the post you were responding to. While going through the tech section here I found this interesting tidbit among the Husqvarna factory service bulletins:

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So, thank you Cafe Husky! At this point it may be a little late to do that particular bike much good, but at least it looks like I probably found the reason why I could never get the jetting on my 125CR working right. This site rocks! :)
 
310huskyTE said:
Nice looking bike!!
I like the tank covers on the wall, did you recently bid for the red one on ebay? because if you did you might have been the one that beat me for it!
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Tri-trophy is selling more of these tank covers on E-bay, red, black and they may have more of the blue and yellow ones for the steel tanks with the gas cap in the middle, just bought one my self for $18.
 
Thanks for that, i got a red one not long after losing the auction to 86 400 xc. Tritrophy is a a awesome shop and Dave Pratt is great guy!!
 
brads said:
A little slow on this reply due to life getting in the way the last 6-8 months, but it gives me a chance to ask about your Ossa now that you've had it for a while. What do you think?

It's funny what was popular in different parts of the country. In New England in the late 60's and early 70's, the enduro championship standings were basically a parade of Ossa's. It seemed like everybody had one. On the other hand, I doubt they sold more than a handful of them on the west coast.

The Ossa pioneer didn't have a whole bunch of top end (or suspension, or handling), but had enough low end grunt to pull through the plentiful New England mudholes and rocks. Still, when I got off my Pioneer and onto the little Husky I think my speed in the woods improved by 30% immediately. Neither bike had any brakes to speak of - especially when wet - but I guess I felt more comfortable riding something that was 50 pounds lighter and handled 10 times better when I couldn't slow down. Not to mention it was much easier to pull out of a mudhole if I did get stuck. ;)

And now, for a well deserved tribute to Cafe Husky. To my amazement, thanks to the tech section here, after nearly 35 years I may have finally solved the jetting mystery of my 1977 125CR that I mentioned in the post you were responding to. While going through the tech section here I found this interesting tidbit among the Husqvarna factory service bulletins:

125cr_carb.jpg


So, thank you Cafe Husky! At this point it may be a little late to do that particular bike much good, but at least it looks like I probably found the reason why I could never get the jetting on my 125CR working right. This site rocks! :)
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Glad the site helped you out... lots of tech reading in there if you want to dig for it!!

T
 
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