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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Opinions please, what colour, if any?

M

Murph

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hello gents. I am looking for opinions and hopefully ideas or inspiration. :)

I am getting closer to completing the 390 rebuild (will post more pictures really soon), and am unsure what to do with the tank on the bike.

I am not restoring it as original, it will be raced, so am open to any and all suggestions. I have kept the frame silver but rather than fit white plastics, I am using a pair of yellow M Robert guards (the rear with the built in number plate).

I have a clean but well used alloy tank in the original colour, black with the polished panels. It currently has the worn areas where the knees rub on the paintwork, and at first I was going to leave it like that, but I am not sure now.

I thought about painting it yellow with the polished panels, like the 125cc bikes in the 70s. I have also considered removing all the paint and polishing it, especially after seeing the tank on Husky Ts 390.

What do you think? :notworthy:
 
Yellow tank would look great:thumbsup:, never really cared for the all chrome tank look :excuseme:.

Husky John
 
Even though John doesn't like it (see above) , I'm partial to all polished chrome look but I also really dig Wally's 78CR250 Yellow and black.... However I do agree with John and if I was doing another bike, I would go for the yellow....(yes - on a 390)

Stock Purist Husky to me is boring but that is just me....:excuseme:

I prefer individuality and personality.

T
 
Thanks guys, I am thinking along the lines of the yellow tank as well. It would look nice with the yellow guards. The rims are plain alloy rather than black, but at least they aren't gold. I think that would clash a bit with yellow.

Cheers for the input!
 
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