• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

The snail pipes did not last very long. I think you found the reason...

I am not criticizing your work but the snailpipe was a bandaid for down pipe bikes like the mid 70's Maico that did not have the space over the engine that Husqvarna did.
 
Here few more pics of some:

It is a lost art of that era.
 

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jimspac said:
The snail pipes did not last very long. I think you found the reason...

I am not criticizing your work but the snailpipe was a bandaid for down pipe bikes like the mid 70's Maico that did not have the space over the engine that Husqvarna did.
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I will find out. One of my neighbors had a modified 125 Elsinore with one on it and an older friend had one on his CZ.
 
I think they look cool. Definitely different. It may not work exactly as you wish but it will stand out. In any case your bikes would stand out... I can't wait to see them finished IRL.
 
I text my neighbor growing up. Dean said that he and his dad, did the DG head, snail pipe, ignition, and bigger Carb on his Elsinore back in day. He said that bike ran awesome back then. I asked if there was difference between the snail pipe and stock. He didn't know because they bolted everything on all at once.

Chayzed Pilot on here? Might have run one?

I will check with bud Scott about his CZ.
 
Nailed it!

Or do you say " Snailed It"!

Some old lost artwork!

Even got Husky And Fox badge on it for Fox Husky.

I know what pipe is going on the Maico!
 

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There's nothing wrong with a snail pipe. Jimspac is right about why they were utilized, but if you can get the right cones on there they will work as well as any. And coolness factor... well just look at those photos! Might kick up a bit of dust, though!
 
New designed shock mounts for my fox shox. Built into the existing mounts and if a guy ever wants to put back to stock. Just cuts them off carefully and grinds down all the welds flush to old frame and mounts. Plus retains all the stuff for side number plates.
 

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