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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Just checking back in

old76cr

old76cr

Husqvarna
AA Class
Been a while. Was busy with renovations and restoring a Norton. Had the old girl out today. Still rips!
 

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I raced the similar 75 360cr in 75 and although the suspension and agility were great I didn't care for the power band. It lacked torque and for me it was especially noticeable after racing a 450 for a of couple years. In hindsight I understand HVA's need for a competitive MXGP bike but I think it hurt HVA's American off-road market.
 
Norton? My coworker had a 750 norton commando and a restored matchless. Fourth years ago I knew nothing about bikes but what he had surely was purdy. Now I realized what he showed me.

I built a fast '81 cr250 but soon after I bought my first cr390. The 250 was left in the garage, the 390 was so much faster. Everybody I let ride both bikes liked the 250 much better. The 390 had power top to bottom.
 
Bigbill said:
Norton? My coworker had a 750 norton commando and a restored matchless. Fourth years ago I knew nothing about bikes but what he had surely was purdy. Now I realized what he showed me.

I built a fast '81 cr250 but soon after I bought my first cr390. The 250 was left in the garage, the 390 was so much faster. Everybody I let ride both bikes liked the 250 much better. The 390 had power top to bottom.
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Mines fast enough for me. I'm the same age as my numberplate.
 
A guy on a old suzuki rm250 tried to keep up with the cr390 and couldn't. He showed up days later with a new Yamaha 400. But he never came near me again. I really liked impressing other riders who didn't grow up or knew about the huskys. They don't realize that the newer bikes with power valves take some of the top speed away and add more bottom end. Funny some of my buddies who got spanked by my cr250 would show up in my shop and look at the rear of the 250 when they seen the rear view before anyway and ask what bike is that? I wanted to say that's the old bike that kicked your butt. But I kept my mouth shut. When ever my son was on that 250cr our secret word would be, " take it easy on that old bike" that meant show them what this old husky gal could do.

As we get older we tend to slow down and just enjoy the ride and hearing the fin ring again.
 
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