• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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'll jump in here and post up my Huskys. First will be my 1976 175 cross country I restored. It's story was told in the restorations threads. Next up will be my 1976 360wr. I bought it as it looks now, rides ok and might get freshened up a bit. I did put Progressive shocks on so I could save the Girlings to use on my 175 if I show it. I have recently replaced the Gurtner carb on the 360 with a Mikuni and will be replacing the Motoplat with a Power Dynamo ignition. I replaced the Motoplat on my 175 with a Power Dynamo during restoration. I will keep the old Motoplats "just in case" I want to use them later.DSC_0078r.jpgDSC_0024r.jpg
 
Max R said:
I'll jump in here and post up my Huskys. First will be my 1976 175 cross country I restored. It's story was told in the restorations threads. Next up will be my 1976 360wr. I bought it as it looks now, rides ok and might get freshened up a bit. I did put Progressive shocks on so I could save the Girlings to use on my 175 if I show it. I have recently replaced the Gurtner carb on the 360 with a Mikuni and will be replacing the Motoplat with a Power Dynamo ignition. I replaced the Motoplat on my 175 with a Power Dynamo during restoration. I will keep the old Motoplats "just in case" I want to use them later.View attachment 87300View attachment 87301
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After seeing some pics here of other bikes, I decided to post an "action" pic of my 76 360wr. It was a good day !360 Wheelie.jpg
 
Max R said:
I bet that is one hell of a thrill ride !
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Oh maate . It was dry silt lake bed with vehicle tracks through low grass . Pure ego dirt . And the bike t match . Front wheel just skimming all the bumps and the back wheel cutting a path through anything in its way .
The kdx125 wasn't quite the same lol
 
cool lookin scoot!:thumbsup:

i shouldnt be a smart arse but you only have to look on utube to see what happens when you dont have gloves, sleeves and a helmet on...just sayin not being too critical i just feel photos of irresponsible riding behavior shouldnt be taken! the irresponsible riding can go on...
 
suprize said:
cool lookin scoot!:thumbsup:

i shouldnt be a smart arse but you only have to look on utube to see what happens when you dont have gloves, sleeves and a helmet on...just sayin not being too critical i just feel photos of irresponsible riding behavior shouldnt be taken! the irresponsible riding can go on...
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Got to agree, her indoors goes berserk if I ride a bike around the back field without a helmet!
 
years ago a mate went to deliver a borrowed spanner back to his neighbor just b4 lunch and jumped on the bike naked basically, shorts and a tee shirt and thongs, no one knows what happened but in the 150 metres to the next door property, he hit a tree and was badly concussed, repressed fracture of the cheek bone, broken nose, dislocated shoulder and skin off everywhere. never rode again
 
Almost ready! Put chain back on and add fresh fuel. Thanks to Greg Premo for his advise! 1987 XC 250. 1974 400 CR in back ground, almost ready!
 

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Hello, I’m new to the forum and new to Huskies. I recently bought my first... a 1981 CR430. It should arrive soon. I’ve been restoring/riding/collecting 50’s 60’s triumphs for about 10 years. Prior to that I’ve raced cr250 and crf450r in central Texas. I’ve been reading and learning so much over the past few weeks. This is a great forum. There is a lot of useful information regarding the 81/82 (cr, xc, wr) 430 on the forum. I decided on the CR after researching/reading posts... thanks to all...5DDAF72C-A8AB-43BC-9BAA-8EF6C0EC1566.jpeg
 

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