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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TC 500 83/84

Jens Ries

Jens Ries

Husqvarna
AA Class
In march '84, when I was 15 years old, my father bought me this TC 500. In Germany Huskies were very rare, especially the fourstroke ones. It was brandnew and more a mythos than real bike. I was very proud to own one. Every race I rode with this bike was a big fun for me, being crowds pet with the special sound of fourstroke within all this noisy twostrokejam.
In summer '85 the Huskydealer took it back for the first TC monoshocker. The bike was sleeping at the dealers magazine, untill we bought it back in a package with a Husaberg in 1990. The berg was terrible these days and it s long gone.
In 1993 I had the idea to restore the bike and tuned it up with a two in one exhaust some 610TC parts and a discbrake at front. Now Im building it back in original conditions like we bought it in march 1984file.jpeg file-3.jpeg file-9.jpeg
 
I rode a YZ 125 until end of 83 too ... but I didn t like the stressy sound and power. In summer 84 I became 16... but was a big problem for me to ride at our local assosiacion the nationals 250-500 cc.
Usually had to be 18 for this class... but the officials discussed and cracked the rules for me, so I could race together with my buddies from the club ... and my father on his 500 AE ... were big times for us ☺
 
@ oldbikedude: No we don t. My father rode four of autos ... first Husky he had was a 420 '79 four speed (one of the best bikes I ever rode) '84 he bought the 500 ITC three speed... this bike was horrible ... vibrations in every part at every rpm ... noisy ... and difficult to set up ... in 85 and 87 he rode the 430 three speed this both bikes were easy to ride ..like the old fourspeed
@ bigbill: I rode the first husky( 420AE) in 82 .. I was tall enough .. but to slim and less power to ride it for a long distance
 
i thought the auto was a 390 in 79/80 420s where 81/82 but that might be a US thing i rode a 87 430 once it was crazy fast:thumbsup:
 
yes ... think You re right .. could be a 1980 issue ... but still with a flat tank and 17" rear wheel with a cone hub. We bought it end of 81 as a used one.
The 430 lc three speed was very fast at the starting grid ... always a holeshoter, beating big bore Maicos and Hondas
 
yes ... good old times ...
back to TC ...
first step was to disasemble the bike and weld on the backframeloop I cut off '93file-1.jpeg file-4.jpeg
 
in 1993 I welded the Pipes 2 in 1 ... with a 610TC silencer ... now it s a big challenge to rebuild them original file-5.jpeg
 
as You can see .. it s not the correct body .. I had to change a one from the 85/86 mono TC for a race... had problems with the incoming gearbox shaft. It cracked at the right side at the bearing
 
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