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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Video: 1986 400 Enduro

MotoFo

Husqvarna
AA Class
I got around to putting a few clips together of a ride from a couple weeks ago. My daughter, son and I met up with some friends and took to the trails near Mt. Shasta, CA. This was the first real ride on the '86 400 – a lot of fun even with the fork seal giving out in the first few minutes and the rear brake out of adjustment for my liking. The motor is really versatile – I can chug along at slow speeds or let the beast out. I'm looking forward to getting things sorted and aim to make her street legal.

 
I liked the '86/400 she's woods friendly yet comes to life if you wick it.

Lots of stories about my Shasta. People disappearing, aliens, strange white colored pale people.
 
Btw the 400 wrx sounds awesome. There's something special about the 390/400/420/430 engines. I like them all even the 250 but my 400/86 was the bike.
 
It was smiles all day. My daughter rode well and she just completed her first family enduro last weekend and took home a first-place trophy! She's hooked as is my son. I've got the summer to sort things out before the fall season.
 
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