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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

very rare husky

Well i sold the bike this summer to a well known guy that restores huskys and then races them in AHRMA he said the only thing he needed to get for it was a tank.He said this is going to be a tuff one to race because it's so rare but he said theses bikes were built to race and he would probably would race it. So when it's done it won't be hidden in somebodys collection where no one can see it.He said he would keep me informed on the restore and send me some pics when it's done.I will probably go see it in person when its done and get my own pics for my collection.I figured to do the bike justice it needed to be in the hands of someone who would do it correct and money would be no object and to me money would be a hindrance i'm just a shop rat with a limited budget and a wife who understands my old husky addiction to a point:lol:
Tom
 
dumpbear said:
Lennert had 2 ideas as how the bike got here first scenario is when H.M. or A.K.got done racing GP they would have came over here and finished racing our mx series and brought the bike with them.#2 In 1975 the bike was considered obsolete so they would ship them here and let there american contracted riders use them ie howerton/hartwig/ect.AS for the swingarm the only difference between the two is the gusset on mine both have been extended. The upswept on mine Lennert thinks its factory bent to accommodate fender clearance on jumps or seat adjustments.It would be interesting to see bike #2 and #3 and compare but i think they are long gone.
Tom.
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Hmmmm.....dont wish to poor any scorn on the theory. My Dad was a GP Husky mechanic through the late 60's and into the early 80's. When Heikki Mikkola came over to race Internationals (not the GP races) in the UK my old man was given the job of being his mechanic. At no time did they ever send over his bike with him. The local UK husky dealer provided him with a stock bike and my old man fitted the factory forks and shocks that HM brought with him. As I say I don't wish to poor scorn on the story, but why would they send a bike to the US and not to the UK ? Maybe if it was a full series I could understand it, but for just a few races or so maybe not ? Just a thought.
 
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