• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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 250 Project

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When I was growing up my dad always talked about how good the old Husky's were. A few years ago I was looking on craigslist and found this bike. $500 dollars later I was the proud owner of a pretty rough non running 1983 WR 250. The bike was pretty complete so it was a good starting point. After a year of working on it, it was finally "finished"
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When I bought my new TC 125 I had graphics made to make it look like my 1983 and I think it turned out awesome.
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Now I'm updating the suspension and brakes a little by adding a set of 4054 WP forks and a Brembo front brake set up. I still have the original front suspension and wheel in case I decide to go back to the original setup.

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The bike is done very nice.Did you bob the rear loop or did you get it like that? It has the center guard rail under the engine so it has to be a WO or XO frame prefix.
 
jimspac said:
The bike is done very nice.Did you bob the rear loop or did you get it like that? It has the center guard rail under the engine so it has to be a WO or XO frame prefix.
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It was already cut. When I bought it, the bike still had the original WR decals on the plastic. So I'm pretty sure its a WR, it also originally had a black seat cover.
 
So are the lights going back on or are you planning on multi purposing it? I plan to set up mine versatile so I can ride enduros or hare scrambles. If the mood strikes Unadilla Rewind Weekend.

No problem with the KTM, Husqvarna and KTM are now siblings.
 
The KTM looks sort of weird , like the mid 80's Kawasaki's, something with back suspension look & the rear fender.

great bikes, just NOT my cup of tea in styling .. Now the Husky a different story...:thumbsup:
 
The KTM looks sort of weird , like the mid 80's Kawasaki's, something with back suspension look & the rear fender.
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Your description is dead on. I agree, the husky is way better looking but I like different & the KTM is different for sure.
 
im always amazed at how much the primary kick swedes and the 80s ktm engines look...who copied who? i know the primary kick husky existed in prototypes and works racers late 70s...
 
ditch the disc cover and cut the side plates down to reveal all that "air" behind the twinshox and it would look sensational....
 
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