• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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Pawn Stars Husky 390s

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Husqvarna
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I missed the Pawn Stars last night with the 390s how did it go? I did see the Pawnolgey after where they valued the bikes at $6000 each. Just wondering.
 
I am sure they are going to butcher them into choppers like they did with the 1974 400CR a couple years ago. The thought it was a tragedy seeing they never asked anyone with vintage background about potential resale value
 
I hate to see any husqvarna bike turned into a bobber "butt" what do you expect from Harley guys. I purchased plenty of used husqvarna parts and non runners back in the day. But I restored them. I did experiment with one aluminum swing arm from a mid 80's bike with an '82 frame. I mounted the single shock in a twin shock frame. I extended the lower link with a grade 80 threaded rod so I could adjust it as an assembly till the swing arm suspension fully functioned. It worked. I proved you don't need all that rigidity like the mono shock frames. It's just excess weight if the designer does his structural design work properly.

Husqvarna runs through my veins from dirtbikes, to Swedish mausers/handguns, sewing machines to chainsaws I have them all.
 
Yaa, I agree with Bigbill about all the other things Husqvarna. I also agree they should be left alone.

I have a 3 year old Husqvarna lawn mower too and the damn thing is powered by a Honda Engine! WTF?

I still like my Husqvarna Chainsaw and my old Husqvarna Sewing machine though they are the real deal. I even got 2 Husqvarna 16" metal cutting rescue saws. Its always fun breaking them out and letting 'em get busy. They will slice a car in half in about 5 minutes.
 
my awd push mower has a honda in it, but both the chainsaw and weedeater are lil swedish fireballs..
 
Like I said, I agree with "Bigbill" about all things Husqvarna and nobody in their right minds would build a Bobber out of a good Husqvarna dirt bike. Even it was just the engine they had to work with, as it basically renders it useless.

The Pawn Star guys If I remember had their buddy "Danny Koker" from "Kounts Kustoms" in Las Vegas build the Bobber bike and whether it has anything to do with them being Harley guys or not. The whole Country is building Bobbers out of just about anything nowadays. I personally find most of them stupid but don't talk S#1T about the builders of these 1 off bikes. "Shannon" who works for "Danny Koker" is a talented builder. I have respect for that, although I personally don't like the style of most of the bikes he builds either. He works for somebody else.

I've been building Custom Bikes on the side in my own Fabrication shop since 1976 or so. Probably 30 or more of them at least, along with about 20 full tube Chassis drag race cars. All of the bikes were Harley V-Twin based, whether they were aftermarket engines or not.

So that being said the comment above from "oldbikedude" I agree with also. "Not Cool"

I've found over the years. Its best to not talk down to or about Harley guys unless your willing to do it to their face. Then I guess "it is cool", if you get away with it.

The Harley Davidson motorcycle and all of its iterations has been able to continue to set many of the trends for on road motorcycling more than any 2 wheeled device in history. The Harley Davidson Motorcycles though boring to some, remain to be timeless.

I wish I could have kept and not sold about 12 of my own over the years but you gotta make room for the next bike and Trends come and go.

I will always own and ride a Harley. Along with my European Dirt Bikes..
 
Has anyone been checking this out
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Discussion in 'Vintage Restoration Projects' started by kgi4x4, Dec 3, 2012. I think it was a cool build. I'm a purist but it is cool to see some one use there creativity to build a bike and not fix it up like some factory thought it should be. Back in Sweden that's what people did to the road models Silverpilen and Drombagen made them bobbers and dirt bikes both descendent of the Husqvarna 4-speed 250, 360 and 400s of the sixties and early 70s. Its not my cup of tea but kgi4x4 did a cool job.

One thing that gets me about "Harley guys" is the posers. Now my dad made a 56 pan in a chopper back in 72 so I have been around real "Harley guys" my whole life. Funny my dad dosn't ride a H-D any more he has a Gold Wing and Triumph. But real Harley guys where the ones who cared about riding and giving a hand to other motorcyclist yes they might razz you about your bike but would be glad to give you a hand or a wave. Not like these Harley posers who only think they are the badist person to ever ride anything on two wheels and who could care less about helping another motorcyclist even if he is on a H-D. I will never forget my brother and I went to a bike run in the mid 90s he had a 883 Sportster and I had a 60 BSA. Parked next to us was a Honda magna. Now we where coming back from getting some food and these poser H-D guys saw the Honda and pointed to my brother who was wearing regular clothes no H-D stuff on and yelled at him and said " that must be the Honda guy why would he ride a pice of junk like that". So my brother gets on his Sporty fires it up and says 'just because you don't have any Harley clothes on does not mean you can't own a Harley"! Those guys didn't know what to say but there was a real Harley guy right next to us and goes "yeah brother that's true". Wasn't long after that he sold his Harley and got a Triumph, he said he was sick of Harley posers so am I.
 
i agree, when i was shopping for a newer streetbike all i heard was "why do you want to buy a rice burner" and "get a real bike"..i can appreciate all different types of bikes, on or off road. i was surprised to fine out they all had japanese quads. i asked why they did not buy a polaris atv instead of rice burners, and that seemed to confuse them. im not saying all harley owners are like this, but there are many that give themselves a bad name..i myself would love to own an older pan harley but the cost is too high to be my vintage muse. i have encountered many bad attitudes from hd guys that it kind of turns me off from getting one.
 
The real crime on the 1974 400CR from 2 years ago is that dumb ass Corey seized the bike within 20 miles . 2 stroke dirtbike were not jetted for road use and and have been known to run lean in upper midrange when constantly held there without throttle variation
 
New fighting dog in the CVO HD cage. 2014 Indian...
My job is to commission and service these Indians. Also done two customs on them. very impressive machine. Proper design, engineering, componentry, geometrics etc.

Been building and racing Huskies for 30yrs, still my fav. presently busy with a twinshock 2T 500 LC flat tracker. no chopping etc, all original Husky components with some internal suspension alterations.
 
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