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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

pics and age of left kicker riders?

IMG_2763.JPG

I'm 29 and got my first Husky at 14 (1972 250 WR), went to look at it while on a family vacation in Arizona. 2 weeks later it arrived in a big crate in my driveway in Buffalo, NY. Been hooked ever since. Picture is from the Unadilla Cross Country Race last year, 1967 Husqvarna 250 8 Speed, first time the bike had seen this kind of MUD and my first race ever! Now I'm really hooked...
IMG_2683.JPG
 
NGW said:
View attachment 39695

I'm 29 and got my first Husky at 14 (1972 250 WR), went to look at it while on a family vacation in Arizona. 2 weeks later it arrived in a big crate in my driveway in Buffalo, NY. Been hooked ever since. Picture is from the Unadilla Cross Country Race last year, 1967 Husqvarna 250 8 Speed, first time the bike had seen this kind of MUD and my first race ever! Now I'm really hooked...
View attachment 39696
Click to expand...

oh that's awful sorry there's no known cure and that's the way we like it:thumbsup:
 
how do you like the 8 speed ngw? pretty cool to see quite an older husky getting a good workout. are you thinking of branching out to other years of vintage huskies?
 
heres my guess...the cr has a wr rear fender and headlight? and the cr has conventional forks? looks like a spark arrestor on the cr as well. im only calling it a cr because i see the cr rear brake pedal and stay. i see the inverted forks are on the other bike?
 
Justintendo

There are quite a few non-competitive Vinduro rides on the east coast of Australia, probably about 18 in total ( 6 in each state) but unfortunately only one competitive Vinduro on the calendar so far.
The organising club for this one are switched on, it rained overnight so they cut out some potentially hard stuff (slippery and boggy) out and a few riders still had troubles, but it was a fantastic weekend. Non-competitive ride/practice on Saturday and racing on Sunday.

I wish we had more competitive rides. I guess I could ride MX:confused:
 
Wayne, chase up some natural terrain mx as its just like a short cross country and you can really give the 450's a hard time. they don't like being passed by 30+ year old bikes and riders..heh heh heh.

they generally don't have huge jumps so you've got them on an even track.
 
I am 47 & 5/12ths, the 1986 WR 250 in the pic is owned by Norman Foley, I am the proud Caretaker/Rider. This bike and Norman Foley enabled me to get back into riding after many years away from it. I can't thank them enough.

1986 Husqvarna WR250 4.JPG
 
The date on the pic above is not correct, I think I took that pic in the spring of 2013.

The photo below is me on the 86 and my friend Calvin on My '98' RMX 250, Fall of 2013



Jake and Calvin on Dirtbikes 2013 A.jpg
 
justintendo said:
how do you like the 8 speed ngw? pretty cool to see quite an older husky getting a good workout. are you thinking of branching out to other years of vintage huskies?
Click to expand...

To be honest I never had to use the overdrive on the 8 speed. Probably could use it in the desert.... Oh yeah i'm going way newer... all the way to 1971 with my 400 cross that's getting ready for this years Ahrma races. Also trying to get another 67 Frame ready with a 360 motor for the Classic 500 Class. Lots to do and it just snowed yesterday...:banghead: I'm usually riding my old Norton with 1 Up 3 Down on the right, so I try to keep the shifter on my motocrossers on the right as well.


Here's my 71 400 that I restored and sold a few years ago. The race bike isn't this nice..IMG_1433.JPG
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top