• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Husky 360 Viking Stars in Vintage Desert Racing 1967

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:popcorn: This film is a gas to watch. I think this is where the tank-slapper was perfected. :banana: What is it that motivates 800 guys to take their 400lb BSA's, and the like, with 3 inches of suspension over 80 to 100 miles of the Mojave desert for 2 or 3 hours??? :excuseme: Oh, thats right I use to do it as well.

Only 250 finished, that's a lot of bikes for the sweep crew to pick up. In the end JN Roberts takes the win on his 360 Viking. Its awesome to watch the pioneers in action.

1967 Desert Racing
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a64niu0db8


Then when you're done watching 1967 take a look at a desert race helmet cam from 2012. Amazing how far dirt bike technology and digital recording technology has come.

2012 Desert race helmet cam
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTcnH-FLnCA
 
Thanks for posting this. The historical footage is impressive stuff. GoPro footage, no matter whose helmet it is on, always makes me feel like I am looking over someone's shoulder in an arcade. Probably just a sign of my advancing age.
 
As you well know aside from the Husqvarnas most bikes back then were British twins and singles. More twins than singles as I understood it. Think about it, in the 60's Triumph 650s were ridden for the National Enduro championship. Bill Baird for 7 consecutive years and in 1969 it was won on a Honda CL350 over Husqvarnas
 
My bad, but it was a 500 twin in 1968 at least. I do remember an old John Penton interview with him saying he was riding against the 650s
 
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