• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

My build list is growing.

Bigbill

Bigbill

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Basket cases,

82 430cr
83 430wr milk truck
79 390 OR
77 250 cr
82 250wr

84 250wr complete runner just needs cosmetics. Milk truck plastic tank, cr cylinder. Orginal.

Scavagening up more parts. Two cylinders came with unused new pistons.

One must know his parts. A while back I purchased a complete 430wr engine it was advertised as a military 250. It's not a auto. The pic of looking in the exhaust port told me it wasn't a 250. I purchased a 250 cylinder/head that I thought was a 390. Bigger bore in the pic than a 250. It turned out to be a 420 go figure for $39? I just purchased a crank for a 250 it looks like a 390. I can't wait for it to get here. People don't know exactly what they have. Better know what your looking at. Parts is parts, extra parts is even better.
My work starts with building complete ready to run engines. Then build the bikes as fast as popcorn. Well age has slowed me down.

Unfortunately the price of parts is slowly going up. I see single shock frames for $500.
 
Bigbill said:
Basket cases,

82 430cr
83 430wr milk truck
79 390 OR
77 250 cr
82 250wr

84 250wr complete runner just needs cosmetics. Milk truck plastic tank, cr cylinder. Orginal.

Scavagening up more parts. Two cylinders came with unused new pistons.

One must know his parts. A while back I purchased a complete 430wr engine it was advertised as a military 250. It's not a auto. The pic of looking in the exhaust port told me it wasn't a 250. I purchased a 250 cylinder/head that I thought was a 390. Bigger bore in the pic than a 250. It turned out to be a 420 go figure for $39? I just purchased a crank for a 250 it looks like a 390. I can't wait for it to get here. People don't know exactly what they have. Better know what your looking at. Parts is parts, extra parts is even better.
My work starts with building complete ready to run engines. Then build the bikes as fast as popcorn. Well age has slowed me down.

Unfortunately the price of parts is slowly going up. I see single shock frames for $500.
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single shock frames for 500? i see whole bikes for less. there are always people asking too much for stuff.
any bikes put together and running yet? no pictures of any of these?
 
yeah pics ????? sounds like you have been officially "CALLED OUT " LOL !!!
 
There all apart, I have parts all over the place, downstairs, in the kitchen(boxed). In the bedroom and garage.
There all apart. I been buying all the affordable parts. Like a disc brake front rim for $39. Example. Affordable frames, tranny gears, I'm turning into a hoarder I guess. My 84 250wr is a runner it's been in a barn for decades, the suspension was reworked and she runs great, it needs some tlc.

I have a few pics of my huskys of the past.
 
The cost of buying a bike part by part. The frame, swing arm/shocks, front tree/ tubes, tires and rims gives you a roller.
Then it's little parts, rear brakes, brake pedal, bars/levers, gas tank, seat, plastics. The biggest nut is the engine. But the parts won't last forever.
 
There all apart, I have parts all over the place, downstairs, in the kitchen(boxed). In the bedroom and garage.
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Yea I think that anytime ones motorcycle hobby begins to invade the house and eventually finds its way into the bedroom it can officially be labeled as hording. But on another note, if that's what floats your boat then more power to you. :D Live on my friend!
 
The wife isn't happy right not. She's filling the garage with my parts. If she wasn't here I'd be building them in the living room and rooms too. My health isn't great so I can get away with it for now.
 
Bigbill said:
The wife isn't happy right not. She's filling the garage with my parts. If she wasn't here I'd be building them in the living room and rooms too. My health isn't great so I can get away with it for now.
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You've got one of those too? My wife gets downright mean when the smell of solvents, oil and/or 2-cycle exhaust seeps into the living room from the basement or garage. I never understood the appeal of a detached garage until I was married.

On a serious note though, I couldn't keep my bikes straight if I worked like that.
 
No smell of grease or solvents in the house. I found a 390cr complete bottom end for my 420 cylinder.
 
It's happening this is my bucket list to turn the earth on a 390cr. My muesum pieces will go to my sons.
 
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