• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 "unconventional" 1969 250 cross

You can polish the heck out of (or have polished) that air cleaner then coat with POR Glisten PC which will keep it very shiny indefinately. It's hard to spray... kind of a weird consistancy so best if a body shop does it. Also.., after polishing make sure to rub the thing down with lots of acetone or laquer thinner- the polishing sticks use wax that inhibit the Glisten PC from adhearing.
 
To coin an automotive term "restomod". Beautifully done. Caught my attention immediately. The curved shifter lever has me intrigued. Just for style or did it help positioning for the long shift throw on our machines?
 
Yes, it's beautiful. Nice job. Unfortunately, what we have here is a "drive-by posting." One post by the author then... nothing. We want to know!
 
Hey all! Big mea culpa for me not getting back to all of you. It's a shame, but besides moving the bike I haven't touched it; has been a rough year. (Un)fortunately the bike is still in the same 'shape' as about a year ago. Regarding the questions:
- the rims have been bought at Huskyjunk.com. Assembly (spokes from Buchanan) has been done at the 'Wheelmaster' in Tacoma, a reference in that kind of jobs!
- the gear shifter had been bent 'on purpose' I imagine (have seen loads of pics of other bikes with same form). The real reason for that, I have no clue!
- for the tank: the tank was in pretty good shape with some minor dings. Emerald Queen City Plating took them out and replated the whole thing. Took about two months to finish the job!
Bike is running great (bit loud!), I use vegetable 2stroke oil (Denicol Grand Prix) and the smell is AWESOME!!!
 
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