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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

squarefour said:
Fresh from a meth shack deep in the Mojave desert, via police auction and a craigslister friend-of-the-force.

$400 and it runs, I know because it revved away due to a stuck throttle cable. The sellers were just staring at it (no kill button) and it was going to seize, so I reached over and yanked the plug wire. So I already have pain-equity in it.
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In a very-possibly futile bid to get street plates, I threw on some cast-off parts from a DR650 I "cafe'd". Also, Scott Tremblay-rebuilt Curnutts and an ebay seatcover. Greasy goo under the flywheel tells me engine work is imminent.
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Just for the record, I am told I installed my springs upside-down, which seems obvious now.
 
Just picked up this 1977 WR250 for my wife for $1500. I figured it would be a perfect fit for her height, the seat is comfortable, and it has more power than she will ever need. Plus the fact that I get to ride and wrench on it will be a good fix for my vintage husky affection. She hasn't ridden in 10 years and is excited to be back riding. It runs superb and has been maintained nicely. I don't mind the clark tank for trail riding but I will be trying to find a restorable stock tank to keep on the shelf. IMG_4052.jpg
 
I had been looking for a 500 for some time. This 83 500 CR showed up on CL last week and was within a reasonable distance (400 miles is reasonable in the Great Southwest). Wife said "You better go get it before it's gone". Love that woman. Jumped in the pickup and went. Machine is a CR with WR gears, tank, seat and side covers installed. Came with excellent original parts and owner's manual. Even came with a title, what a haul. It is a winter project for next seasons vintage motocross racing.
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Picklito said:
I look at this thread almost every day, hoping for another shot of somebody's bike. So then I think... hey... maybe I should put one up?
Not sure if I've posted this, but here's my next project.
Pic #3 - dead bee INSIDE fuel filter. How DOES that happen?
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its a wasp:thumbsup:
 
To all;

I forgot to mention that Jery from Anaheim really helped (as in did most of the work) with the engine rebuild on my 1976 Husqvarna WR360 (what a blunder on my part!). I could not have gotten this bike together without his knowledge because I knew squat about Husky engines at the time. And I learned a lot from him. Thanks, Jery!

Lucien





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