• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Think if I hang on to my 310 long enough...

You may have too. Seems like the red Husky's are a tough sell. You can get new ones pretty cheap. Here in the northeast anyway.
 
Once they do dry up values will stabilize. Everywhere I go folks like the Husky. It's somewhat exclusive when all you can buy locally is a Honda, etc... I can understand a dealer or seller dropping prices as they either own or are paying on the bikes and have to move them. An end of life/line machine can be a low price one day and then unobtainable the next. I look at bikes as a parts bin. Motor, electronics, wheels, brakes, etc.. etc.... Much is common componentry across the marques. A bike is a bike IMO and in time the newest are worth the same as the older Husky. Time will tell what stands the test of time. Ride the bikes and enjoy them and in the end they all will be worth about the same... or maybe the red Husky's will be worth more as a distinctive bike that nobody dismisses in the handling department or the engine performance.
 
Mike-AK said:
...that I'll be able to post in the "Vintage" forum someday?
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Don't take this too harshly but you sound like an old guy sitting on the porch watching paint dry ...

Maybe this can help rekindle some fire ..
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6sC9ll-Lso



Johnrg said:
Once they do dry up values will stabilize. Everywhere I go folks like the Husky. It's somewhat exclusive when all you can buy locally is a Honda, etc... I can understand a dealer or seller dropping prices as they either own or are paying on the bikes and have to move them. An end of life/line machine can be a low price one day and then unobtainable the next. I look at bikes as a parts bin. Motor, electronics, wheels, brakes, etc.. etc.... Much is common componentry across the marques. A bike is a bike IMO and in time the newest are worth the same as the older Husky. Time will tell what stands the test of time. Ride the bikes and enjoy them and in the end they all will be worth about the same... or maybe the red Husky's will be worth more as a distinctive bike that nobody dismisses in the handling department or the engine performance.
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Everything is new only once, then it is old. I'd have a garage full of these Huskies if I was still in the states and had a job. The states are full of little used shiny bikes at a good price ... And yep, my bikes are a parts bin from time to time also ... I need a second WR250 model without that new fangled electronic ignition :)
 
Mike-AK said:
If I find a "new" 2012 310 I'm gonna buy it for parts.
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Your 300 has some funky oil draining stuff (?) or something different from a 250 but other than that, a 250 (of the correct yr model) might do you well also ... Buy a 310 piston and ring set also maybe but there should at least be 3rd party sets available for quite some time. ~Any of these bikes under ~100 hrs should be in good shape for purchase unless just pinned too often...

How many hrs on your bike now?
 
Always have guys checking out my husky and saying how awesome they are , ran into a guy that had 500 hrs on his motor with no rebuild , I couldn't be happier or have more fun , just wish parts were as easy to get as others.
 
Ah I'm done worrying about parts. I'm going to buy a second bike so there's never a need for parts. Then husky can take it's sweet time on delivery...wait i need 3 bikes...ok maybe 5 :)
 
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