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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

81 cr430

R

Randyhowell713

Husqvarna
A Class
Just picked up a 430 from 65 year old guy in Northern California has a pro circuit boost bottle .he went thru the bike nicely like new rebuilt olhins clutch cover his childhood friend that helped him it was a husky dealer in n callifornia in the day. Rode it down the street yesterday for the first time it starts very easy usually two kicks one when warm . I got tell you this thing might be the fastest open bike I ever rode . I have had them all this thing has a power band a mile long and super strong super clean jetting this thing will be at unadilla next year for sure with all you husky nuts pease out Randy
 
Is it the one that was on Craigs list in redwood city ?

I sent him a half dozen e mails and then actually got a call back 3 weeks ago saying it was sold.

Nice Bike if it is.
 
Yes That's it, Could you post a picture of boost bottle mounted to frame ?
I have a brand new one that I will be mounting on my 1982 250xc, already modded the manifold.

Do not remember how my original one was mounted in 1982

You scored a nice Bike.
 
You better lock your garage Randy. Because we are going to take a look in that cylinder to see whats porting is in there.

You got a great buy on that bike. As the Ohlins were rebuilt and all. We will have to see if it has the Husky factory porting mods or
Pro Circuit porting mods. Or something else. Cool deal here !
 
richzajic said:
Yes That's it, Could you post a picture of boost bottle mounted to frame ?
I have a brand new one that I will be mounting on my 1982 250xc, already modded the manifold.

Do not remember how my original one was mounted in 1982

You scored a nice Bike.
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Will try and get some pics for you soon thanks randy
 
I thought all the Swedish husqvarnas were fast? They all snickered when I pulled up with the old left kickers on the trailer. But down the straights break out the crying towels for they had no clue. Just a little added porting. Open up and polish the exhaust port. What a sleeper these bikes are.
 
Relative to the KTMs and Japanese, the Swedish Husky 250s were not "fast" after '76 or '77 which is why Kent Howerton "invented" the running in a higher gear in corners while brutally slipping the clutch technique, and as much as I love them, the Swedish Husky 125s were never fast compared to...well...anything.
 
I second that Kwheel, my 79 is a lil disappointing even tho "Big B" I did port and polish in all the right places. I just take it for what its worth, it's pretty quick but its not scary fast that's for sure.
 
I put "fast" in quotes because, except for starts, I personally think the power delivery style of the Husky 250s makes everyone but the top Pro faster, but it doesnt FEEL faster. Because of that they got called slow in magazine tests compared to the very abrupt and fast feeling KTMs and Japanese, but that abrupt power makes for slower lap times with anything but a Pro rider.
 
84scrambler said:
I second that Kwheel, my 79 is a lil disappointing even tho "Big B" I did port and polish in all the right places. I just take it for what its worth, it's pretty quick but its not scary fast that's for sure.
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keep tuning, it will run well. i always liked how mine ran...good traction, power delivery, and gear spacing. not too many many 250 bikes will be "scary". the swedes definitely fall more on the usable side anyway..
 
That is one thing that I liked when I first got on a husky , no abrupt power band hit. I would much rather have the user friendly power, when you need more you just twist more.
I do need to tune and jet my 79 and finish a few things on it, maybe I'll make a new thread on doing this.
 
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