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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

VintageOhlins

cognitive 390

cognitive 390

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hey guys (or gals) anyone know anything about Steve Marpes of VintageOhlins in South Carolina? Any work ever done with him?
 
I would like you to consider Drew Smith at WER. And Craig C. at the Huskyclub.com
 
Just search the web for husky club of latest number. He only does ohlins now. Husky stuff all gone.

Folks here really like Drew and all rave his work

Used Craig from past cause he has my valving shims numbers all set for me. Did not know Drew at that time. Craig has a lot of parts, more that most.
 
cognitive 390 said:
Hey guys (or gals) anyone know anything about Steve Marpes of VintageOhlins in South Carolina? Any work ever done with him?
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Steve Marpes worked at OHLINS USA for several years. He was their vintage shock guy and started his own business a few years ago. He knows his stuff when it comes to the OHLINS.
Marty
 
Second or third vote for Drew. He has been running Husky (mostly ITC) for last 4 years. Got it down to a sciencde as well as springs and if you feel you need the gold valves for forks too.

Joe
 
wow how weird i'v been looking for him[STEVE] for like two weeks found him just a Minuit ago[On marks vintage swap-meet] been texting:excuseme:
 
I hate to say any thing negative here but you asked, I sent my remote ohlins to steve and he told me he could not get the one apart and deemed them un rebuildable but he just so had another pair he could sell me on his shelve for a lot more money. So I told him to send them back and I let the shock soak in PB blaster for a week or two and I got it apart and sent them to Drew Smith at WER and he rebuilt them and sent them back good as new. So yes Drew gets my vote.
 
Drew just took a set a very very bad 78 remote husky and made them up for a 80 PE 175 for mre as a gift to a buddy. new bottoms , hoses, basicaly kept shafts, reservoirs and bodys and top mount

amazing and fast turnaround
 
not ohlins, but i had the suspension from my 95 back from drew super fast...packed well and the guy will talk things over on the phone as well.
 
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