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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1987 TrailRider magazine and Drew Smith

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Houredout401

Husqvarna
AA Class
A fellow NETRA member was getting rid of his collection of TrailRider mags from the 80's and I took a December '87 issue that had write-ups on a bunch of ECEA and NETRA events. Also had detail on the ISDE held in Poland that year. I had no idea Drew was such an accomplished racer, he finished that '87 ISDE, placing the highest in his class of any of the US riders. Not on a husky though, it was one of those red bikes with a model that started with an X and ended with an R.

I'll see if I can scan it in and post.
 
Drew raced against the best...Dick Burleson & beat him more then once. Drew help develop the Suzuki PE's
& Honda XR 's too, and still hauls butt in the woods :D .

And the best thing is humble as hell :thumbsup: & a good friend, have a beer with him, he's got some great race/bike stories.

And since I've know him, he's turning into quite a Husky Guy, maybe I'm rubbing off on him, LOL...
 
Drew is top notch both on his bike and as a person. Very grounded. I think he has ridden about 20 ISDT/E events and has a nice collection of medals too.
 
Yes Fredette was Mr. KDX....but a new England rider named Kevin Lavoie actually had a very early role in developing the Kawi enduro bikes.
 
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