• 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.

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Prototype future husky engine we just missed

Norman Foley said:
Don't blame Cagiva.... Electrolux was the problem!:oldman::cry::thumbsdown:
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absolutely, i dont blame the italians..thats why i have the 95! cagivas are sweet bikes but with husaberg the company was a lot smaller. the 2 and 4 stroke development staying in sweden together would have been awesome..
could have been sold by now or a real powerhouse like ktm..
 
The cassette boxes that ossa have made on the explores are being replaced in 6months, well dodgy.

Previous models of bikes have used a few sucsessfully but they have to be very well made to be adequate.
Tbh the std gearbox isnt a problem to work on theyre all plenty strong.
 
Cool design, seems small bore though...
Didn't gasgas bought the engine designs and rights ?
 
Crankhouse. I get some amusement on how some of the stuff translates.
Did they put some bearings on the shaft the clutch cable goes to?
 
Correction - I removed the Zabel engine pics as i had them mixed with the Husky prototype and replaced with Husqvarna.

See the Husky letter in detail here in native language.

See the Husky engine and letter below in new post
 
juicypips said:
The cassette boxes that ossa have made on the explores are being replaced in 6months, well dodgy.

Previous models of bikes have used a few sucsessfully but they have to be very well made to be adequate.
Tbh the std gearbox isnt a problem to work on theyre all plenty strong.
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if the swedes would have continued on and built it, i doubt it would have been dodgy. the swedes had small issues here and there like anybody, but always fundamentally sound engineering...
 
Looks like the overly used Wr Cr 250 bottom end through Cagiva to BMW end.

Just not cassette with kicker moved to right.
 
I guess I fail to understand why this Zable engine is a proto type Husqvarna ? To me it looks to be a re designed 83 Maico which was Maico's " new " Japanese style Engine. Although Maico went bankrupt ( for the 1st time) when the engine was released this engine design went on to be made for another 20 years or more. It powered Side Cars and Shifter Karts along with ATK's. Made by a number of manufactures all with there own designs on the same basic 83 design.
 
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