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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husky CR 500 Silverstreak

Bengt Husky

Bengt Husky

Husqvarna
AA Class
A good mate loaned me a copy of the MXA from 1982, which did a write up of the 82 Silver streak. Thought I would post it up for info.

Steve
 

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I couldn't bring myself to ride that one. I would build another not original to ride. It's an awesome bike Bengt.
 
those bikes are of the "rare" type and it should be museumed... get a later 83 or 84 milker if you need to ride a 500.... lots of them about....
 
i almost agree . in that original condition i think it should be savored .
anyone that restores one and doesnt ride it a waste of parts imho
 
suprize said:
those bikes are of the "rare" type and it should be museumed... get a later 83 or 84 milker if you need to ride a 500.... lots of them about....
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you mean like this other one of mine...it's got the correct ITC shocks and I've changed the blue rear sprocket before the "concourse" police raise it....:D

I don't want to museum the "Streak", but as it's only been ridden a couple of times since it left the factory it would be a shame to throw it down the track...IMG_2226.JPG
 
Very nice bikes :) cylinder is unpaited on silverstreaks orginal.

I have five orginal bikes and three replicas :)

Bye Niklas
 
Ride em all day long and worry about museums when your in one.
That said i would put track kit on it mud n a few tank dings so you dont feel too precious about it.
 
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