• 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.

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How about Darin for Husky bike builder of the year

GaryM

GaryM

Husqvarna
AA Class
Since they are doing the year end reviews on sports - how about Darin for Husky bike builder of the year. I don't think anyone can match him in this last year. He is are Jessie James guy on the site and hand done with hand on craftsmanship. Look in the restore section.

Darin aka dartyppt, has a whole family of 80s Husqvarna's under restoration, please take a look. Ok - he not just restoring them but adding updated new sic look to these 80s bikes. Not all traditional but dang they are looking good.

It a good thing ! But its a bad thing I can't keep up with him !

We should have more of these year end votes for bikes of the year. Yes.
 
Oh boy! Just read this early in the morning.

Well thanx guys! Means a lot ! I wish I could just order everything to finish them over night. But I don't have that kind of funds. Sometimes, takes me lil longer to do stuff, cause I am looking at the expense versus new.
But I have to spread the cost out over time. Still, the amount of time it takes and the hard work is very teadious, even if all the parts and machine work was all done. Still take long time.

Believe me, sometimes things go flying out the shop door and I need a break.

I use to race couple of these back in the day and did all my work on my own. But I am still learning stuff every day.

What is nice about our section, on Cafe Husky is:

Everyone has some expertise that they are good at and I am sure we all learn something new every day. I know I do!

One of these days, tell you a story how it all began. It is quite interesting as I look back.

Thanx

Darin
 
I agree - loved the newer bikes he has done as well. Attention to detail exceptional . Also a very helpful guy when I bought parts off him - one of the best
 
I desagree !:)
Started a thread in 2013 , and after 28 pages in 2015 , not able to present a whole finished bike !:D
Nice job ! Do you do yourself aluminium welding ?
 
Michel, he had stated that he does not have the money needed to buy everything all at once. I am in the same position as are several others among us. I myself find it is more productive to complete the identical tasks for all projects at the same time rather than do one bike start to finish and allow the other stablemates to languish while all the attention is directed at only one. Especially when doing the atypical tasks like repairing corroded cases when I need to mix up special compounds for repairs.

We all approach genius status when tackling the issues we encounter when we work on 25 plus year old machines that had long been cast off by indifferent boys and fell into a pattern of neglect or butchery maintenance attempts
 
Ok, so dartyppty IS bike builder of the year, now what? Maybe we can chip in for a bronze statue in his likeness! Maybe send him to Sweden, to Husqvarna AB to see if he can connect with the Swedish Husqvarna spirits? He's going to need a push to get to the end.......
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