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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husqvarna History highlights...

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I've been spending time with people trying to better understand the last few decades of bikes, both because of the upcoming Vintage Motorcycle days and possibly altering some forums slightly.

These descriptions are for the 'average Joe', to give him a vague idea where to put his posts, and has nothing to do with whatever vintage racing association rules there might be.


circa 1986 / 1987: Electrolux sells Husqvarna to Cagiva

1988 & older: Made in Sweden, 2st & 4st all had left kick, right side chain, and left (or possibly dual) mufflers

About 1989 to 2002: "older single cam 4st", most were left kick , right side chain, left side (or dual) exhaust. About 1989 the production was transferred to Italy. The USA had different designations than the rest of the world. In the USA in about 1990-1996 both 2st and 4st were called WXC, unless the light kit was added, then it was called a WXE.

2003 started the 'newer' bikes. 2003 was not brought into the USA.


Does that sound like a reasonable high level description?
 
2003 factory was 2 meters under water (100 year flood), so we got them in 04 had that not happened? who knows, would have been 2 years ahead of the rest of the pack. And Aprilia wouldn't have had the V twin would have stayed at Husqvarna.
Later George
 
Was this flood in the same area that the current factory is at now?


Considering 2004 was the centennial year, maybe in 1904 they would have also been underwater, if they had the same location back then... But of course they were being made in a completely different country in 1904.
 
Flood was at the old factory, which is now the MV Agusta factory. It is right on the shore of Lake Varese. This was the Aermacchi aircraft factory. Seaplanes were pushed out of the factory and into the lake to be launched. Aermacchi later built motorcycles there and then sold the motorcycle division and factory to Harley Davidson. H-D produced small bore 2 and 4 stroke motorcyles there and then sold it to Cagiva. Cagiva bought Husky from Electrolux and moved production from Sweden to this plant.

I forgot to add... Ironic that H-D would end up buying MV/Cagiva and getting the old Aermacchi factory back, plus the company they sold it to!
 
Wow. Thanks Norm for that bit of interesting history. :thumbsup:


Anyone know of the relative elevations between the new plant on the old plant? I believe they are close to each other.
 
Coffee;107324 said:
Wow. Thanks Norm for that bit of interesting history. :thumbsup:


Anyone know of the relative elevations between the new plant on the old plant? I believe they are close to each other.
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I think the plants are on opposite sides of the lake, about 40 minutes apart. I'm not sure of the elevation on the new plant, but I'm pretty sure when the Castiglioni's built the new one it would be a little higher and drier!:busted:
 
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