• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rossik said:
can't wait to see the swingarm with all the bits mounted......sounds amazing.
and any chance you can post a pic of the TM chain guide? And is it something that bolts straight on or did you have to mod it a little?
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I had to modify it just a little. But have to wait till I get it all bolted up to make sure 100%.

Will do posting this weekend!

Hey got my graphics proof!
 
Here is the swing arm and shock eyes fresh out of box.

Gotta tell you, this plater does nice job!

In 30 years after all these parts end up on Ebay! You youngins, gonna say: That's old man Typpy's bike!
 

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Dang! Better get some of these HD Night Vision glasses if you gonna go riding with me!

For a limited time! U get second pair for free!
 

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Thanx Rossik and Visiteur! That's Mr Bean!

Ok guys need some imput so don't sit back. Please chime in.

I moved the WER swing arm decals back because shocks were blocking them.

Now, looking at everything. Maybe engine guards should be polished instead of blue? Yellow?

Now, look at the porcupine head. I don't think I like the blue? Maybe all yellow, with tips of fins showing the aluminum?
I think natural the work will blend in? Or just do center in yellow like I have the blue?
 

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Engine guards should be polished, not blue or yellow. I would try the yellow on the head first including the tips. However, before you change color, you need to take the bike outside in the sun, shop lighting sucks, then decide if you don't want the blue. Aesthetically, I like the blue, but in your shop with the shadows, it really does not stand out. Really like the chrome swingarm!
 
adam6402 said:
Engine guards should be polished, not blue or yellow. I would try the yellow on the head first including the tips. However, before you change color, you need to take the bike outside in the sun, shop lighting sucks, then decide if you don't want the blue. Aesthetically, I like the blue, but in your shop with the shadows, it really does not stand out. Really like the chrome swingarm!
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Thanx Adam,

Good advice!
 
Yeah, the blue in the head kinda gets lost in the shadows. Sunlight would help. I'm normally not a big fan of yellow but that might make the head POP especially with the other yellow accents on the engine. I would liked to of seen the whole head porcupined. I like the edges of fins aluminum. I think the engine guards look good blue but polished aluminum always looks good. It's a home run already....awesome machine.
 
oldbikedude said:
Yeah, the blue in the head kinda gets lost in the shadows. Sunlight would help. I'm normally not a big fan of yellow but that might make the head POP especially with the other yellow accents on the engine. I would liked to of seen the whole head porcupined. I like the edges of fins aluminum. I think the engine guards look good blue but polished aluminum always looks good. It's a home run already....awesome machine.
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Sheet! I got so much paint on this head that gonna have to strip it and beed blast it again.

Yellow? Just is not zinging? Black, no! Cast iron grey, is not bad! Here is where I shot it in Ford Blue?
And I can accent the fin tips? Or leave well enough alone?

Had to take cylinder out in sun cause shop door is frozen!
 

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i kinda like the blue head with bare fin edges, and perhaps also bare where husky machined clearance to access the head/cylinder nuts.
 
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