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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

It's a boy! Finished rebuild pics

L

Larsa

Husqvarna
A Class
Guys,
Had to drop in a thread to show off my bike, finished it today. Started out from more or less a wreck which I was going to only get running and use, but as so many times earlier it got out of hand into a full restoration job. When I realized this is one of the few made road legal back in -84 and was still in the government computers I decided to build a full 'road kit' that can easily be dismantled (10 min prob.)

Everything on the bike has been rebuilt and the engine was in poor shape (except cylinder which was original bore) so I replaced almost all gears and actually also the case. Headlight is RD350 (-82) with custom brackets, went with that as I have such a bike aswell and could use a spare. Turn signals are RD400 (-78).

Nothing magic or fancy with the engine, 1st oversize w. wossner piston, new round slide mikuni 38 and Performance pipe from US.

I would like to thank GaryM for selling me a great engine case and for friendly and good advice, Philip at Husqvarna-parts, Andy at HVA-factory, Dan at Husqvarna Classic parts and all of you great guys here on the forum for all the help!

P.S I know I have the wrong side panel decal on (WR), but it's the one I had.....will replace someday :)

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Now that is b e a u t i f u l****************************************!! Thanks for sharing it with us. Much too nice to get dirty or broken. I´d keep it in my living room.
 
Very nice looking bike, good job :applause:

I'd keep it in the bedroom, not the living room :D

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Well that will sure turn head when you ride it, better be prepared to answer all types of questions when every you stop...LOL
Great job
Husky John
 
Beautiful bike for sure !! Wish somehow I could get my bike over there to Sweden and going riding with you !!

Thank you for your comments.

GaryM
 
I would like to thank each and every one of you for the very nice comments on the bike! I run and restore old bikes to use them but really more then half the fun is to meet new friends and guys like myself and help eachother out.

-Rick, I attached a picture on my daily driver RD350 (Its a 1981 model). Really this picture does not do the bike justice as it is dark and the bike is not polished but it's the one I had on hand. Anyone who likes to ride big bore two strokes should try these, they are so much fun. I used to drive also a 1300cc bandit but this bike outperforms the fun level of that by alot! This particular model is early and does not have the YPVS (exhaust vale control) which means it has a very signifficant power band hit. Will raise fwd wheel on 1st, 2nd and sometimes 3rd, depending on my weight at the time..
Everything was restored/tuned on this when I rebuilt it, but it is some time ago so using it has made some marks.. I use it for driving around town/work etc, not for long trips :)

Thanks
Lars
 

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Awesome RD I think they stopped US import in the late 70's but not sure. A friend of mine had an 83 or 84 but think it was a Canadian model
 
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