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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Vertemati anyone?

Wildebeest90210

Wildebeest90210

Husqvarna
AA Class
Wait for the Husky tie, its there. I found a Vertemati breaking on Ebay last week. Missed the engine but got the forks, WP 48mm usd with Ti nitride, £79 ! Well pleased and will bolt straight in to my KTM. While finding out WTF a Vertemati was I came accross this article. I particularly liked the line ' In the mid-eighties the brothers acquired a Husqvarna franchise to sell the quirky Swedish machines' Quirky?
Anyway, I found it interesting and thought I'd post.

http://www.pulpmx.com/stories/look-...lassic-steel-31-mike-young’s-1995-vertemati-g
 
I came very close to buying a Vertemati about 5 years ago, it was a supermoto, test rode it and it was a great machine. It was only the lack of info and the worry of obtaining parts easily which put me off and I bought a Husaberg 650 instead. I've always liked the 'less mainstream' bikes hence the Husky now.
 
Freaky said:
I came very close to buying a Vertemati about 5 years ago, it was a supermoto, test rode it and it was a great machine. It was only the lack of info and the worry of obtaining parts easily which put me off and I bought a Husaberg 650 instead. I've always liked the 'less mainstream' bikes hence the Husky now.
Click to expand...
I guess there must be a few about. The winning bidder on the engine has an engineering company, he's going to be measuring up the crank and other bits to make a batch so he must think its viable. Apparently the kickstart lever is more valuable than its weight in gold.
 
Nice! My friend and landowner for the North East Husky Gathering site, was the VOR sales rep for the East Coast 10 years ago. He and another friend still have some cool VOR's, including a 503MX that ran the old 4 Stroke National MX Series.

The perimeter frame of the 70 degree Husabergs, looks very much like the frame on the the last VOR's after they swicthed from the old bolt together backbone frame. I always figured they tapped an old VOR engineer for some input.

Careful with that right foward kick start lever.... I tried to start one without my riding boots, slipped and got it right in the shin! Tears did well up in my eyes for sure!
 
What a great machine, typical of those specialist bikes, they just couldnt deal with the follow ups to keep them becoming sensational. Ol mate had a 84 510 fourstroke when Honda had the XR 500 / 600 and Yamaha the TT 600. Apart from 1. starting and 2 stopping, it absolutely crapped over the other fourstrokes by lightyears. Once we learnt how to start it the brakes weren't that big a deal as the power ran rings around the others. I was banned from riding it at a club event once as i was stopping and waiting for the sponsored Honda man to catch up and race... took a bit to get them right while the japs just poured reliability into their bikes and got the sales. Even Husaberg took some "Owning", sensational bikes but always a niggle somewhere.
 
A moan about other forums now. 5 days ago I put a question out on the Vertemati section of a massive supermoto (junkie) forum about the forks mentioned in the beginning of this thread. 73 views and no replies. I bet if I posted it here someone would find the info and post it. I've had nothing but average/bad experiences with any other online bike forums, this one appears to be far better than the rest in all ways.
 
Once a husky man, always a husky man. Its an international disease im sure....but your right, a dead quiet forum is a PITA.
I spend bit of time on Enduro Bike Talk forum as the guy that runs it is a great bloke and he takes great pics and video. Check out the Castella video # 3 on Utube, couple of husky's on that...
 
Believe it or not but there was one stolen from near here a while back.
I thought that it might stand out at the time.
Don't know if the guy got it back.
 
Came across a brand new one in Italy last week and a new VOR. I think they were both Supermoto bikes, but I was too busy hunting down Husky spares to take much notice!

Both the bikes were for sale though if that's interesting....

Andy
 
I didn't read this thread at first as based on Joe's motard build thread, thought it was probably about food or wine, not an actual motorcycle. Cool looking bikes, couldn't imagine trying to find parts for one of those, that'd be a job for Indiana Jones!
 
adam6402 said:
I didn't read this thread at first as based on Joe's motard build thread, thought it was probably about food or wine, not an actual motorcycle. Cool looking bikes, couldn't imagine trying to find parts for one of those, that'd be a job for Indiana Jones!
Click to expand...
I resemble that remark ! I found a pair of gold dust forks for the KTM and found a Husky link is all. Rebuilding them over Xmas then will use this thread to gratuitously post a pic of my Katoom. No pics of food or wine(maybe).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top