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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

So "Skiddy" how did you like the '82 430WR??

Skidmark

Skidmark

Husqvarna
B Class
Well, lets see.... I holeshot and won EVERY moto (4) in my slow guy class last Saturday. :cheers: Kept the bike in 3rd gear and it tractored like a diesel and screamed like a proper 2-stroke...WOW WHAT A FLEXIBLE MOTOR!! :thumbsup: I thought I was riding the automatic! I'm hooked! I've already got the modern RM250 for sale!! Oh...and the Husky weighs 3lbs less than the RM too!

I covered myself in fork oil during this landing...oops...


I really want to thank everyone who's been helping me on this site. I started with a 390/430 frankenbike, and ended up buying a proper 82 430WR.....that Malcom Smith reportedly rode in the Mauna Kea 200 back in the day...or so I'm told (not by the seller). I now have a TON of parts for sale from the Frankenhusky....mostly 82 WR stuff except the 390 motor.

You guys all ROCK! :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
 

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Thanks again for the support guys...I couldn't have done it without you!

Bike is being shipped to Kauai next week for the Labor Day vintage races!!

KK
 
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