• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

whats classic is the polished tank section and all the old colors for the different models the old letters Wood beway Kool 2 WRs'CRs' XC's or ORs change EXC/TEs to RT Freeride to WRX [300 2t] for wide ratio xtreame IMHO they need to get as much KTM out of them as can as fast as possible the world already has enough KTMs no matter what color they are. rant over... maybe
 
troy deck said:
whats classic is the polished tank section and all the old colors for the different models the old letters Wood beway Kool 2 WRs'CRs' XC's or ORs change EXC/TEs to RT Freeride to WRX [300 2t] for wide ratio xtreame IMHO they need to get as much KTM out of them as can as fast as possible the world already has enough KTMs no matter what color they are. rant over... maybe
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Ouch.

I agree however, Huskys of the future should be created in their own direction regardless of the shared parts future models may have. That being said, I like my 450. It's a great bike that I enjoy riding.
 
Riding together :thumbsup:

My ducati had a small issue at Blackhawk Farms Raceway in 2007. The cambelt broke and I bent two exhaust valves. It sat on my lift for several years when a friend needed an example like mine for the 2012 Chicago Motorcycle show in Rosemont (it's this weekend, I'm going Friday). So I got it together and put it into the show. Then I figured a track day was in order and went to Road America last year. There I blew the front headgasket (moral: don't buy cheap head gaskets). I decided to do a full restomod to it. I bought new painted bodywork in yellow and took the bike apart to paint everything else with a fresh coat. After taking apart the motor, I found the piston was damaged, probably detonation, and needed to replace it. So I got all the parts and started reassembly. Then I got a great deal on an engine\crankshaft combo to make a 944cc unit. So, that's where I am. I still need to finish the chassis painting, rebuild the forks\shock, find a yellow gas tank, etc. I will keep all of the original bodywork in it's current, nice red state.
 
Wow, you're close. My son and I ride occasionally at FVOR. I'll be driving right by your place after lunch today on my way to St. Louis.
 
eddychecker said:
Wow, you're close. My son and I ride occasionally at FVOR. I'll be driving right by your place after lunch today on my way to St. Louis.
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Yes, if you know what to look for, you can see our Horse Farm from 39 or I 80.

Yeah we will have to go to Fox Valley. Guess they got some funding for Gobb Hill out in Atkinson.

I was just up in your neck of woods in Woodstock/Cary, last week.

You are welcome any time to come down and I will have to stop by you to ck your bikes out.

Then you'll have to takes these ol mules for ride when get them done.
 
Think what I'm going to do. I have to travel to Indy next week. Think I am going to take couple more sets of rims down.
First, run them down and let them strip the anodizing off, squeaky clean.
Then bring them back, weld them, polish them. Then run them back down.
I will try to document the process and prices.
 
That is the bluest yellow I ever saw. Whats the back-ground color behind the numbers(the white of the plastic?)? The colored graphics look good.
 
dartyppyt said:
Kinda play with side plates now?

Any thoughts are appreciated?
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Okay, here's something I've been thinking about, doing some siginicant re-work of the side panel shape at the back end. Directionally, the number would have to rotate a counter clockwise, but what I was looking to do was to expose the backend a little more while eliminating the big somewhat square number area.

In regard to the blue and yellow stripes coming off the tank to the side panel, would like to see something a little more unique, not sure what though. Maybe fade the stripes into the husky lettering, or have the husky lettering match the width of the stripes with each letter being half blue and half yellow?
 
dartyppyt said:
Kinda play with side plates now?

Any thoughts are appreciated?.
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I like the way the stripes flow from the tank down the side panels. Not so sure the lower side panel ones , fit the same flow.

I think the larger "H" on the tank , look more modern & makes it stand out better. Remember most
stripes look best if they follow the lines of the panels there on.

I've seem too many Tuner cars with just stupid looking stripes applied, like pin stripes, there suppose to accent the car's body lines, same with a bike.

Never understood why people paint the car wheels completely black, I think they looks better if there something to break to break up all that black (tire to the rim). A simple polished edge or
1 stripe make things really stand out.
 
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