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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

What is a "Mag"?

Coffee

Coffee

CH Owner
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At the vintage MX race last weekend I asked "what year Husky is this?" the answer was a 19__ "Mag".


What is a "Mag"?

Magic? Magic Carpet?
Magnesium?
Magnificent?
Magnifique? (sp?)


:excuseme:
 
Magnesium. The 1974 CR250 had magnesium engine cases. Question: Did subsequent CR's also have mag cases? And what about the WR?

BTW, which vintage race were you at?

Marc
 
Coffee- the Mag designation was for the 1974 250CR to differentiate it from the 1974 250CR (essentially a holdover '73 & yes they offered 2 mx models) and it had different swing arm, suspension and all-new magnesium cased engine & pipe. In 1975 the CRs changed again with new frame & suspension plus a 360 motor in magnesium cases. The WRs maintained the old-style engine but used the '74 mag swing arm yet by '75 had switched over to running essential the same set up ad CRs, mainly because Burleson was killing the competition.
 
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