• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Parting Out a 510

Phoenix

Phoenix

Husqvarna
AA Class
I've been trying to sell our two motards for a a couple of months now, and all I've gotten are lowballers and trade offers for random cruisers, pickup trucks, etc. I'd really like to get the money out of the 510, so I was thinking about parting it out. The bike is a 2006 510 SMR...well maintained...have everything to sell (well I might save the clamps and bars for my new TXC 250). (pic below)

Has anyone had any luck parting out a Husky? Since the market is smaller, I'm concerned about getting the engine and frame sold. There is obviously no reason to take it apart if those things can't be sold. So, has anyone done this, and if so, what were your most productive sites to advertise on? Thanks!
 

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In my opinion, it would be a shame to part out a bike that nice. I parted out a 360 a few years back and barely got half the value of the bike. Once you put a bullet in that 510, there's no turning back.
 
It's a bit of a shame when nice bikes get parted out.... Sometimes you can get decent $$ doing it that way, but it's a PITA and timing is everything; You need desperate guys with money looking for the exact parts your selling at the time your selling them. Otherwise, you'll end up selling to guys just adding to their parts inventory.
The other thing to consider is that some parts will not likely sell at all, or you'll likely almost have to give them away; like swingarms, air boxes etc.
 
Yeah, I hate the idea of breaking it up. I know what you're saying about timing too...I rebuilt a R1 that I wrecked a few years ago and had a lot of parts leftover. I still have a bunch of them laying around.

I guess i'll just hang onto it and maybe try to sell it again later. My other option is to go the other way and add some more bling to it...I'm thinking about powdercoating the frame and maybe swingarm in red, white or black. How about that option? :)
 
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