• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

yeah the blue head with the bare fin ends looks real trick and stylish, not too much.......the yellow was just too out there if you ask me ;)

where did you get those engine casing protectors - I want some of those ?
 
Rossik said:
yeah the blue head with the bare fin ends looks real trick and stylish, not too much.......the yellow was just too out there if you ask me ;)

where did you get those engine casing protectors - I want some of those ?
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Thanx guys! Thanx for help!

Rossik, I made those engine guards from scratch.
 
Okay, I'm torn on the engine guards. Would love to see some pictures outside. In your shop lighting the guards are getting lost being close to the same color as the cases. Maybe best to stick with the blue.
 
What colors are you going to use on the side panels? That may help dictate how much blue or yellow you use elsewhere.
 
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What colors are you going to use on the side panels? That may help dictate how much blue or yellow you use elsewhere.
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The side panels will have the yellow and blue stripe like original. Except where Cr 250 is, going to say Husqvarna
Then there will be couple of blue dashes towards front of plates, yellow and blue accents heading to number plate area.
Number area is white, black numbers, like these:
 

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adam6402 said:
Okay, I'm torn on the engine guards. Would love to see some pictures outside. In your shop lighting the guards are getting lost being close to the same color as the cases. Maybe best to stick with the blue.
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Yes, you guys on money! Can't see the guards cause they blend in with engine.
 
Here is shot in just blue and yellow!

Remember, the blue and yellow are not a matched color. Just gives you idea of the colors?
 

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Side plates is going to say Husqvarna instead of Cr 250.

Here is sticker I used to get size of lettering.
 

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You know, you need to stop this build, finish all of your other bikes first so we are not all let down with anti-climactic stock rebuilds! (Unless you plan on going berserk on those as well :-))
 
adam6402 said:
You know, you need to stop this build, finish all of your other bikes first so we are not all let down with anti-climactic stock rebuilds! (Unless you plan on going berserk on those as well :-))
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Ha! Yeah, those are going to be boring. I don't know? Kinda been rethinking the 82 Cr 250?

Might have to swing around and do some neat stuff to it!

Can't wait to get graphics on and wheels laced up.
 
I like the blue/blue combo and the head blue with the edges silver. Beautiful work you're doing there. I've got my Ducati 851 in pieces that could use the same going over. I too am struggling with colors and ideas but your work is helping me decide too.
 
eddychecker said:
I like the blue/blue combo and the head blue with the edges silver. Beautiful work you're doing there. I've got my Ducati 851 in pieces that could use the same going over. I too am struggling with colors and ideas but your work is helping me decide too.
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Thanx! Nice Ducati u have there! Yeah, it's tough sometimes trying to figure out color schemes.

That's why thank you guys for imput.
 
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