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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Warming the 86 240 up.

dukkman

dukkman

Husqvarna
AA Class
Changing to Waterless Coolant so I can sleep at night and have to warm her up first to wash the old stuff out. Was having nightmares about waterpump corrosion.
Both bikes have been sitting for a year or so. The 240 took less than 6 kicks to start and the 400 took only two because it has a deco and can be primed.
As you can see the 240 is well used.

View: https://youtu.be/u1PopWeUR5Q
 
The Swedish Husqvarna bikes have their own sound like the Harley's. The 240 sounds awesome.

Being retired and sleeping late sometimes one morning while waking up I heard a familiar fin ring go by my window. I jumped up and caught the back end of a white and blue bike. Looked like a '83. The local kid who works on a farm near me bought the bike out of the barn. He didn't mix the ratio correctly.it was way too rich. He sold the bike to me. Every time I hear a husky engine I think of the bike passing my window.
 
Bigbill said:
The Swedish Husqvarna bikes have their own sound like the Harley's. The 240 sounds awesome.

Being retired and sleeping late sometimes one morning while waking up I heard a familiar fin ring go by my window. I jumped up and caught the back end of a white and blue bike. Looked like a '83. The local kid who works on a farm near me bought the bike out of the barn. He didn't mix the ratio correctly.it was way too rich. He sold the bike to me. Every time I hear a husky engine I think of the bike passing my window.
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something to be said for sleeping in :thumbsup:
 
Ahhh, ringing fins and rattling clutch baskets. Almost as good as toast and coffee on a Sunday morning.
 
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