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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Magnificent 7

Gees, they previous guy sealed the Gunnar up with permatex gasket sealer.

That stuff beech to get off.

Here is levers and mounts with handle bars and grips.
 

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Here is triples and fork cap on, that I had to file and polish from previous hammer ass!
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Yup been there, done that...the file-polish after dumb ass thing. Oh, I saw the real motivator on the bench behind the clear fork leg....big cup-O-joe.
 
This is just a rough hand drawn sketch of the graphics that will go on tank.

Dark filled in is the matching Bahama Blue.

Then outlined area will be the School Bus Yellow.

But it returns to the original lines that go into my side plate decals.

Like the decal I have that I taped on old side plate.

This all gets painted on. Providing these winter temps cooperate.

Will remove this and take to my vinyl guy and he will reproduce like masking tape.

Other ones that are on there, fit is not greatest, because I took about 1/2 to 3/4 inch out of tank sides, so it is slim and you can slide up tank easy.
 

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oldbikedude said:
Gonna look great. Nice to be able to use some creative liberty to build something just a little bit different.
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Thanx,

Thought I would go big like Cagiva did with elephant logo and how they increase size of Husky logo.

Old Husky logo was sooooo small that bikes were often times mistaken for Maico's.

Drove Cagiva nuts so:

Elephant stands for big, stomping, powerful mountain beast, that likes to squish things with its big feet, poke you with big tusks! Just don't let mouse run by it or feed it peanuts out of your hand unless you at the zoo!

Nah! But Elephant was there logo. Here is some reading, even the relationship with Jawa,CZ,MV Augusta, Ducati, etc.....

http://www.cagivaonline.dk/history.htm
 

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Itc springs

Humm? Yellow up top or yellow on bottom. White on top or white on bottom?
Dang heck getting old!
 

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Parts showed up to make my new brake rod.
Threaded the end of aluminum rod and screwed it into a metric clevis.
I will weld it when done as well.

Also, aluminum showed up to cut my new rear brake pedal.
 

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Tm designs chain guide I fitted using die grinder and stock 83 bracket.
Will trim some more so it floats real good but going to wait till she runs to see what hole I run.
Front hole is compatible with stock. This is also anti drag guide roller.
 

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This will be concept of my rear brake lever with a modern tip on it.

It getting close to Christmas so where black is will be like cut out cookies.
 

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Good thing I never was an attorney! Cause I wouldn't pass the bar exam!

Lookin ok!

But getting a nice surprise tomorrow night!
 

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I LOVE polished aluminum! The blue pops. I like your style. I'm not sure about the aluminum brake rod. I Just think it might wear fast, but I know you'll make a new, better one when it wears out......lol
 
Stainless steel springs to make my foot peg springs. Heat bend and snip but $3 bux!
 

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oldbikedude said:
I LOVE polished aluminum! The blue pops. I like your style. I'm not sure about the aluminum brake rod. I Just think it might wear fast, but I know you'll make a new, better one when it wears out......lol
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Yeah, prob agree with you on brake rod. If it doesn't work then I will have to get a stainless rod and thread it.
What I wanted to try or maybe some day on list. Is to get two magura hydraulic clutch units and make two hydraulic brake units. The magura clutch units pull but not sure if they would create brake drag, as they release?
So would have a front brake unit, rear brake pedal unit and should be able to size one to put a hydraulic clutch on as well?
Wish full thinking!
 
Oh no! She wants to go look at furniture tonight?

What ? How I suppose to build bikes with this as a distraction?

That's because with furniture. She can't sneak it in lil at a time! But you can a bike!
 
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