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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Shocks for a '79 390 Auto

SRRobirds

SRRobirds

Husqvarna
AA Class
Guys -

I know this topic has been raised a few times, but I've got a slight twist on it. I have fairly recently rebuilt remote reservoir Ohlins on the bike that seem to work fine and I'm happy to keep them. But as I prepare to "renew" the bike after this year's racing season, I'd like to upgrade the shocks if possible (or if needed). I'm riding AHRMA post vintage cross country and I don't think there are restrictions on rear suspension, so is there anything newer that would improve handling and eliminate the remote apparatus?

I'm new to Husky, so I apologize if my thought of replacing the remote Ohlin's is blasphemy!

Thanks for your help with this.
Scott
 
SRRobirds said:
Guys -

I know this topic has been raised a few times, but I've got a slight twist on it. I have fairly recently rebuilt remote reservoir Ohlins on the bike that seem to work fine and I'm happy to keep them. But as I prepare to "renew" the bike after this year's racing season, I'd like to upgrade the shocks if possible (or if needed). I'm riding AHRMA post vintage cross country and I don't think there are restrictions on rear suspension, so is there anything newer that would improve handling and eliminate the remote apparatus?

I'm new to Husky, so I apologize if my thought of replacing the remote Ohlin's is blasphemy!

Thanks for your help with this.
Scott
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husqvarna-parts.com use to carry new hi-tech ohlins piggyback shocks but phil does not have them listed on his site anymore. Rachtech can probably build you total custom shocks, none are cheap, expect to pay $1,300+.
http://www.racetech.com/page/id/98

You could also have Race Tech rebuild and re-valve along with new springs, might be cheaper.
 
Those new Ohlins are not enough better to justify the price if you already have a good working pair of '79 era Ohlins. The Race Tech shocks are not as good at any price if you have a good working pair of '79 era Ohlins. Save your money and have the Ohlins you already have serviced if they need it, if not, go riding.
 
Thanks guys. Got the message... since my remote Ohlins are working fine, I'm going to stick with them!
 
Hey, I see you are in Atlanta, I'm in Valley Alabama down by West Point/LaGrange. We should go to Highland Park and ride Huskys some time.
 
The last price I saw on new Ohlins vintage twin shocks was about $1500 a couple years ago so I would stick with the rebuilt remotes as well
 
Yes, it is. I am continually amazed to see at vintage races how many have spent that much money on their shocks alone. Last weekend at the ISDT Reunion Ride in Tulsa, I saw a bike, which I wont say what brand or model it was, that had those brand new $1500 Ohlins piggyback shocks and I bet the entire bike was not worth $100 before adding the shocks. Dont get me wrong though, I think people waste money on trying to make more power when suspension will make far more difference for each dollar spent, but there is a point of overkill.
 
There is no doubt that they were the state of the art then so it makes sense to work toward those options on any bike and worry about the rest later. i know how good a "good" set of shox can transform a "poo" barge without much else being required!
 
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