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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1928 Husqvarna Model 200

DeathFromAbove

DeathFromAbove

My Cat Says AREAR!
So It's not a left kicker but a Husqvarna all the same.
I bought this as a 30 yr of work for my last company gift to myself.
I have my own company now and and working harder than before
This 550cc v twin is pretty complete and has the look I want in an antique.
As I repair the things I see, Ill lost up pic and what not like she is the welcome addition to my collection.
It was imported from Austria.
And was a clusterF of an operation for me with NO experience.
That said it is in the shop and waiting.

So I got a chance to sit down on a bucket and do an examination on this bike cursory as it might be I found three or four kind of glaring problems but nothing that can't be remedied.
Looks like a craigslist paint job on the frame and everything else the black
. Broken stud off the oil tank
Front right lever is for outside band brake on rear wheel not holding in the front of the perch
They stuffed a little bitty new battery that's dead and the Bosch box
Spark plug wires don't seem to be actually connected to the magneto
When I pulled one of the wires the rear spark plug wobbled in its hole
Throttle is binding
Lots of new fasteners in all the wrong places
Headlight was removed for shipping without a drawing on which pieces go and what order to put it back together.
Compression release is not adjusted properly
Found a brand new clevis pin laying under the bike could not find out where it came from yet
Drive cover's been hacked looks like with tin snips.
I'm going to say this bike hasn't ran in a long time they said 2021 I'm going to say I doubt it

That's all I want to think about at this point looks like I got some real investigations to do we'll see how we roll
More Pics To come. Chris
 

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For a 97 year old motorcycle I'd say it looks pretty good. Since its used, its no surprise that bits and pieces would be missing or show wear. Looks like a great project for a mechanically inclined fellow.
 
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