• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

250-500cc I'm almost ready to give up on old huskys

pablopaints

pablopaints

Husqvarna
B Class
Ok, I found a manual online. Payed big $$ but it's complete and helpful. Wired the bike. Just need a reg to finish it and fire the rebuilt motor. Bike has been rebuilt from top to bottom and I got it as an unfinished project rolling with rebuilt motor installed. The rest of the bike came in boxes and looked very much complete but after bolting it all back together last night it seems most of the plastics are from somthing else! I started looking online for replacements but they just don't exist for my budget anyway. I'm a full time carer for my lady who is very unwell. Don't have a choice but to look after her full time and work when I can. This bike was for me to ride with my mates who I rarely see but it would have given me the odd day out with the boys trying to break my pelvis.

I have what appear to be mid 90s radiator shrouds. They fine and fit the tank and seat etc.
I have a front guard which works just fine. Fits well though has been hacked up.
Seat fits though needs cover and I can do that.
Side plates and rear guard are way wrong. well rear guard looks to be from a peewee and is cut in half. No use to me. Side plates are 88 model but very yellow and don't meet up well with front plastics at all.

I'm at the point where I find the side plates and rear guard off a mid 90s wr wxe or whatever that match the shrouds for a reasonable price or project has stalled and I wreck it for the benefit of others seeing parts are impossible to find and find somthing that I can just ride. If anyone has side covers and a rear guard mid 90s or early 90s in white laying around and would sell to me please let me know. Or if anyone wants or needs parts for an 89 cagiva husqvarna w somthing let me know.
Just needed to bitch. Cheers
 
If it was me i would mount it anyway drill holes to get it on and rivit some plastic to the mudguard to keep crap off.
Keep an ear to the ground for another guard and side panels.
Would ride it looking tatty just because it sounds like your very busy and dont get much r and r.
Keep the faith dont cash your chips just yet.
 
DC plastics makes reproduction (well, a vacuum formed version) of the side panels... otherwise the damn things seem all sorts of unobtainable for nice OEM parts.
 
i understand your frustration, but you picked probably the hardest year of any husqvarna to get parts for. the swedes made before it were much much more popular, and many parts are reproduced and parts swap from year to year etc. after your bike 92 or so and later it gets easier to find parts again...
89 being the first year of italian 2 stroke husky, i bet some cagiva parts fit from 88 and earlier. nothing husqvarna 88 and earlier will fit your bike other than a few bolts. you have a great bike tho, just difficult.
i hate to say it but i would go earlier or later in another bike and part or sell the 89. just a tough row to hoe...we are here if you need it tho so good luck:thumbsup:
 
dhallilama said:
DC plastics makes reproduction (well, a vacuum formed version) of the side panels... otherwise the damn things seem all sorts of unobtainable for nice OEM parts.
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yup, the bikes were overhauled quite a bit in 90-91. 92 and up are much easier to deal with, 95 and up are even easier.
 
heres some 89 bikes...cagivas made to look like 88s basically. it may be possible to force fit the swede shrouds and sidepanels?
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Thanks for the encouragement and after sitting there just looking at it the other night made me think it's just so cool. I would have killed for this bike in 89. I have done a lot of research online chasing bits and so far it seems it resembles a 90-91 more than an 89 which its stamped as. It's real odd. I run all the numbers and just can't find anything on this bike. I will post some numbers when I find pics. If halls deliver to Australia for a fair fee I'm looking good. New rear fender is like $40 usd so can make it look like it's real self. The seat has been recovered and made very round and balloon like. I got the staples, vinyl and glue today to recover after I reshape it to suit my short stature.

Maybe here in Australia we got the later model earlier than others or this bike is a true mystery.
 
pablopaints said:
Thanks for the encouragement and after sitting there just looking at it the other night made me think it's just so cool. I would have killed for this bike in 89. I have done a lot of research online chasing bits and so far it seems it resembles a 90-91 more than an 89 which its stamped as. It's real odd. I run all the numbers and just can't find anything on this bike. I will post some numbers when I find pics. If halls deliver to Australia for a fair fee I'm looking good. New rear fender is like $40 usd so can make it look like it's real self. The seat has been recovered and made very round and balloon like. I got the staples, vinyl and glue today to recover after I reshape it to suit my short stature.

The pic I found is the closest example I can find. Other than being an enduro model. But all numbers say 89
Could be Aussie version of the Italian swede but seems to be the only one of its kind in this country .bike is a true mystery.
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Yeah I have them bookmarked but found an option today that might just work. See pictures I post today, thanks for looking though it's getting tricky.
 
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