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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

83 125XC with 175 top end

Y

yota

Husqvarna
B Class
I became the caretaker of this bike in 1996. it appeared new when I found it, with maybe a couple of rides on it. no visible signs of wear. the clutch didn't work but it ran and I figured the clutch plates were stuck together from sitting for years and this was the case. I was just coming off of a long hiatus from riding due to marriage and babies so this was my only bike for the next 4 years. it was used most sundays in the florida woods and saw a lot of stinking florida mud. I ran it hard but it never broke on me.

those 4 years were fun but I eventually ended up with newer bikes and must confess I let this one sit in sad shape and mostly ignored for many years. about 10 years ago I got a wild hair and decided to make it right. I tore it down to the frame, glass bead blasted all the metal, primed and painted with automotive basecoat/clearcoat and replaced all the rubber and plastic parts.

I have to admit that I regularly cleaned this bike with purple power cleaner to get all the stinking gooey florida mud off. it ruined the anodizing on the gold rims and on the shock reservoirs. the shocks were taken care of when I did the basecoat/clearcoat (they were also rebuilt) but the rims I never got around to refinishing.

so after ten years I finally disassembled the wheels, drove to Tampa and dropped them off to be re-anodized 2 days ago. I'm very excited to finally complete this project.

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cushy. the stock white springs were always too soft for the abundance of sand whoops here in central florida.
 
Good job! Glad to see you are freshening it up and making it look good again. The 83 125 with the 175 top end are pretty rare to find these days!

Marty
 
Thanks Marty. the 175 parts were NOS and I only rode it twice with them right before I redid the bike. not sure I want to ride it now and scratch it all up LOL.
 
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