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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Awesome job beast! Luv all the little detailed items on it. I still have a hard time with the white pipe..........but thats the beauty of building her to suit yourself. You've done a fine job.
 
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ronn450 said:
What kind of reed valve system you are running on your 400 , can you post up some pictures of it , Thanks Ron
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here.., and by comparison, ktm 500 -86 reed assembly on the left.25.12.b 006.jpg
 
suprize said:
Did Husky ever make a watercooled 400 twin shock CR?. that one has wr forks
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it`s some kind of hybrid, wr has six speed gearbox and drum brakes at front & rear. ,i just bought a complete -85 frame without motor, finnish vintage mx rules allow a linkage rear suspension at the "newest" class so maybe i do an update before next season.
 
Another mystery (sort of)
Finally bought this from a friend. Been sitting in a trailer for most of 17 years. I am the third owner. The original owner bought it for his wife but it was too tall. My friend bought it in 1995 rode it a couple of times and could never get running right. Still has original tires. Can’t wait to get this going.
Entertaining discussions as to what it is, shortly I will put up more pics and see if we can determine the answer.
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The plastic tank is an Acerbis, the original tank, seat, and side panels have never been used. The bike is a 1983 WR175 frame # W0009497. I think the bike originally came from Alaska as the box the panels are in were mailed from Husqvarna in San Diego to The Motorcycle Shop in Anchorage AK.
 
firecrackerkid said:
The plastic tank is an Acerbis, the original tank, seat, and side panels have never been used. The bike is a 1983 WR175.
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Hi Firecrackerkid - Could you please post up some photos of the side panels, especially any markings or part numbers / made in Sweden etc? To find a set of new ones is a good find.

Great story. I'm guessing it's not finished yet. Those new goodies will look the business on the bike (of course I'm biased as I have an 83 XC with yellow seat ;-)

Kind regards
Lucien
 
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