• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Fork legs done.

Cannot even tell where I filled all the nicks and gouges in/baked them with JB Marine Weld.

One of the Maico C’s was partially missing that I built back up with JB stuff.

Now I’m gonna do the lettering in black.

Only brought one set of springs in to take pic.
 

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Surprize!

Here ya go!

Hubs are in oven!

So that means clutch cover has to be all black instead of polished.
 

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Dentist!

Couldn’t reach the dent so I ended up cutting the tank and welding back up.
 

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In this restoration genre, time spent is inconsequential. Think of what a custom like that would cost to have made and at least you have exactly what you want. You may be even if you assign a value for your hours spent. Myself I do not count my hours unless I am working on someone else's.
 
jimspac said:
In this restoration genre, time spent is inconsequential. Think of what a custom like that would cost to have made and at least you have exactly what you want. You may be even if you assign a value for your hours spent. Myself I do not count my hours unless I am working on someone else's.
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I’ll never get what I have in these.

But I enjoy doing it.
 
Is that an 83 chain guide you're using ? I'm going to show Jim the pictures when I see him in a few weeks . I'm sure he'll like seeing what you're doing and how the swing arm polished up .
 
ct cr430 said:
Is that an 83 chain guide you're using ? I'm going to show Jim the pictures when I see him in a few weeks . I'm sure he'll like seeing what you're doing and how the swing arm polished up .
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No, it’s for 79. I think got it from Chippy’s in Australia. They make several for different years.

I met Vic Krause at mid Ohio. He is also old Maico guy. Many should know him from Sidewinder sprockets.
Think he is doing a 79 too!
If you read old Maico articles in old mags, his name is all over the place. Been texting him pics and he loves the bike.
 
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