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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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Bigbill said:
Can parts be found for the Italian husqvarnas?
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i manage to keep my 360 running...halls, ebay, and numerous aftermarket companies make it happen. everything except plastic is fairly ok to find. i would be more worried about the newest italian four strokes, those may be tougher.
 
When I purchased my husqvarna/Italian '98 250wr another guy who raced NETRA hare scrambles bought it's twin and cracked the swing arm. No new swing arm could be had.
In the middle of race season he traded it in for a gas/gas. To this day new parts for the newer bikes are hard to get. The only draw back is parts availability.
Someone was saying he can't get a clutch lever at his local husky dealer.
Finding parts is a problem. My twin to my '98 husqvarna was the '99 husqvarna TE-610e dual sport. Again a great awesome bike. I wished I kept both and parked them.
With the new bikes today I'm not sure if it's the dealers not wanting to invest $$ into parts. Maybe things have changed since some ktm parts may fit the husky too.

My point is I like the husqvarna bike more but the dual sport Honda has parts available.
But I'd like a e-START 2t ride also. The beta x trainer looks good. I'm not sure how the parts supply is for them too I heard some have traded in there betas because of no parts. Now there's 90's husqvarna parts on eBay. "Used"
 
Bigbill said:
When I purchased my husqvarna/Italian '98 250wr another guy who raced NETRA hare scrambles bought it's twin and cracked the swing arm. No new swing arm could be had.
In the middle of race season he traded it in for a gas/gas. To this day new parts for the newer bikes are hard to get. The only draw back is parts availability.
Someone was saying he can't get a clutch lever at his local husky dealer.
Finding parts is a problem. My twin to my '98 husqvarna was the '99 husqvarna TE-610e dual sport. Again a great awesome bike. I wished I kept both and parked them.
With the new bikes today I'm not sure if it's the dealers not wanting to invest $$ into parts. Maybe things have changed since some ktm parts may fit the husky too.

My point is I like the husqvarna bike more but the dual sport Honda has parts available.
But I'd like a e-START 2t ride also. The beta x trainer looks good. I'm not sure how the parts supply is for them too I heard some have traded in there betas because of no parts. Now there's 90's husqvarna parts on eBay. "Used"
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ive never dealt with dealers in person, they stock nothing and if they do its triple price. ive always ordered. and before the internet i just called halls and did the work myself, cut out the "dealer" and dealt with the real dealer. also used stahls, erics, and a few others pre-internet. i guess i just kept extras of things and have never expected being able to find air cleaners or such in stock somewhere as ive never owned a jap dirtbike, only street.
 
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