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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'73 Husky 125

dingodog

dingodog

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi there. I am looking at buying a 1973 Husqvarna 125 mx 'Schoolboy' Anyone own one of these?
I can't find reference to 'schoolboy', was this the actual name of this bike? Anyone have a manual or parts catalog?
Thanks.
 
I have two 125s, but they are shed bikes , i don't race them. I have manuals and parts books, they come up on ebay from time to time. Pistons are getting rarer. I think they are better than schoolboy bike. There's a few good posts on this site about 125s.
 
Schoolboy was a slang term for a budget racer... the kind a schoolboy could afford and have some fun with on the weekend. 125's were cheaper to buy, so it was synonymous with the 125 class. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what it meant around me when I was, well, a schoolboy! Grew up near Carlsbad Raceway. Gee, I sure hope there are still some guys and gals around who remember the significance of Carlsbad.

I've had my eye out for the right 125 or 175 for some time now. Has to be the right price at the right distance... Hasn't happened yet.
 
Thanks Picklito & Dave-CR125. Yeah, I've got one lined up to buy locally, tank a little dinged etc but a 'rider' for my son.
Regards, DD
 
When I was, well, a school boy, a friend of mine had a early 70s 125 (maybe '72? yellow tank) and his brother had a 125 Pursang. The Husky was beautiful but slow, and wasn't easy to turn, and the Bultaco was just beautiful and loved going in a straight line. My TM-125 was better then either, but that Husky was just so cool. I'd get one in a heart beat if one came around (the Bul with the right side shifter, primary drive chain, and f'glass tank--not for me).
 
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