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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1983 WR 125 -Scrambler build

ata boy put your bigboy pants on and deal with it after all your the one who left it outside for 25years
 
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That will be an awesome project. To still have the bike after all these years is good. If you sell it ..... it's gone .... that's it !
You may regret that in the years to come. All the parts are easily available. Just take your time. I would advise putting a Husky motor back in there of whatever size you choose.
It would be good to keep it original as far as is practically possible. Keep the Husky forks, they work well. I am a bit of a purist, so would go with the theme (as is) of an enduro model. Maybe do the frame and running gear first, and spend the time looking for another engine. I still have a bike I bought in 1982 when it was 9 months old. It got treated badly down through the years, but I rebuilt it a few years ago and now I really enjoy riding it (not quite as much as the Huskys though).
 
Dam, how could you get any closer to the original parts you need... I would figure there is probably so many small little shops and guru's that are husky fans in your area that you could rebuild any husky from 87 and down with original parts all the way... Hell , if we can do it I am sure you could do it with ease.
 
hard to say, maybe most stuff was shipped out? more hoosks were sold to the states by far than anywhere else
 
Hello again.
Nice to see that you decide to keep it.
There is group on Facebook called Kamratgruppen Tvåtaktarna.
I'm there and so is most of Swedens old vintage riders.
Im sure you can find all the info, and parts you need there.

But don't forget to keep us updated here.
 
The engine is trash, the fork is trash.
What engines from like the 70s up to the 90s would fit bolt on in the frame?
What husky forks would work?
 
Rallyjohan said:
The engine is trash, the fork is trash.
What engines from like the 70s up to the 90s would fit bolt on in the frame?
What husky forks would work?
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I think you can more or less put any Husky engine in there that have right side chain.
 
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