• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

250-500cc Twin sons of different mothers

Beauties! I would like to have an early 80's HVA to ride and admire. To me the shapes and form of the aircooled engine with its radial finned head is far more interesting to look at compared to the industrial look of the modern watercooled engines.
 
Russ Henry said:
Curious as to the power and handleing differences
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Definitely different. The 83 feels long and slow handling by comparison but it actually works quite well. Sunday was an eight mile all single track loop with more corners than you can count. You would think that the layout would put you in a rear steer mode but that's not the case. The bike is firmly planted and alows you to get over the bars and and really hustle through the tight stuff if you want or you can hang off the back and brake steer. Keep in mind, I grew up with these bikes but I guarantee, I didn't have the appreciation I have now.
Same thing with the power, the 83 is a true tractor. I'd like to hook something up so you could download the revs this thing can be riden at. It seems like it just will NOT stall. As a matter of fact, I've never stalled it. It doesnt have a big hit or rev fast but it makes good smooth meaty power. You ride it in the meat, don't touch the clutch and make time in ground speed. It's jetted perfectly so you just roll it on and I'm sure the guys on the new bikes following are thinking wtf.
 
troy deck said:
shouldn't the seat and jug be black
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Yeah, I guess they should but it's not intended to be a showroom spec garage queen. I ride and I ride a LOT. I think the restoration is awesome and I wish I could take credit for it. I bought this one ready to roll and roll it does.
I always thought the yellow seat looked good with the blue and yellow stripes on the tank and side panels. It might get a black jug later but right now I'm just going to ride it.
 
cool stuff man. time yourself on the same loop sometime and lets us know the times between the bikes, would be interesting.
 
is it bad i prefer the 83? i love the styling an so simple to do work on aircooled 2 smokers ... next project... uhh oh
 
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