• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

good to hear! i think they are very underrated...i will look forward to seeing how you tackle a nice 85-88....these and the early husqiva were really sharp bikes...it makes me sad we didnt get to see how the swedes would evolve from the eighties..
 
I know I haven't posted in a while but I have been busy.

Looks like I am also building one of my favorites in the assembly line. So that gives me 6 bikes for now until I get these all done.

I think you can guess from the tank I finished spraying yesterday, which bike I have added to my collection.

I have to back up a little and catch this one up with the others.

It may take me a little longer to do all six, but that is fine. I just want to make sure they are all done like they came off the showroom floor.

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I've been watching this thread and you are so making me want to build one. I'd just have to have you do my tank.
 
MOTORHEAD said:
I've been watching this thread and you are so making me want to build one. I'd just have to have you do my tank.
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How bout you build one and next time I'm coming down to Evansville, I teach you how to do it?

I can bring my stuff, as long as you have a compressor.
 
Well I think I am finally catching this one up to the others.

Frame was painted over last weekend.

Next up, I have to get these up on stands/secured with pipe wrap foam/heavy duty zip ties, to the stands.

Plus, I still have to label every part to this bike in large freezer bags and get them into 2 tubs (1 for frame parts and 1 for engine parts).





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Thanx guys!

Guess 125 should be eeny

Guess the 430 would be meeny

Guess the 250 would be minee

Guess the 500 would be moe?

Thanx guys, probably nuts for taking on this size of a project.
 
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