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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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Bigbill

Bigbill

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Big Hoss purchased a '79 husqvarna 390 OR and a '79 husqvarna 390 CR for $7,000 for both. WOW now do we restore them and display them in my man cave or sell them?

It's my love of working on them and letting my son ride it.
 
Bigbill said:
Big Hoss purchased a '79 husqvarna 390 OR and a '79 husqvarna 390 CR for $7,000 for both. WOW now do we restore them and display them in my man cave or sell them?

It's my love of working on them and letting my son ride it.
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I have plenty of garage queens but they just sit there and look pretty and aren't much fun. I like my riders and enjoy them way more!
Marty
 
I have always admired the husqvarna motorcycles after running the husqvarna chainsaws logging. There chainsaws never quit on me. I did always use the husky chainsaw two stroke oil. The chainsaw cylinders use a industrial hard chrome lining. I did work at a local dealership. If a cutter brought in a non running saw we could sometimes just install a new piston and ring. The quality was awesome.

This experiences with there saws made me want to try the husqvarna dirtbikes. I restored many of them a longtime ago. Now I'm just going to restore a few and maybe enjoy a ride once in a while.
I'm thinking of tearing my 250wr & 430wr and rebuild them with what ever parts they need. Once there rebuilt with running a good quality two stroke oil they should last long enough for my 4year old grandson to ride them too.

There transmissions are so over designed they put any size cc cylinder and crank on them. The 430/500cc engines use the same trannys but a different case than the 250cc.

We never wrecked an older 76-81 tranny too. Even the newer 82-86 trannys held up.

I welded and repaired many Japanese dirtbike frames but never repaired a husky frame. Not that it can't happen but these less bent frames with the Swedish chrome moly steel.

My dad was a prototype experimental machinery and when he ordered steel for any project it was the Swedish chrome moly steels. Because it was so awesome to machine.

Your right there made to be ridden. Bill
 
motomwo said:
I have plenty of garage queens but they just sit there and look pretty and aren't much fun. I like my riders and enjoy them way more!
Marty
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Years ago we restored then as close to orginal as I could get with no new orginal plastics at that time. But they looked perfect then we ran the heck out of them.

I said before my son was my test pilot with every new husqvarna bike we got running. He traded me his 85 Honda 125cr for my 83 husqvarna 430wr he loved that husky.
 
The owner of the two 390 husqvarna bikes on pawn stars wanted $12,000 at first he settled for $7,000.

How much can the value increase on the husqvarnas? There finally getting there just do in the limelight.
These new dirtbike riders just don't know the history of the Swedish dirtbikes. Nor the old European hare scrambles.
 
Bigbill said:
The owner of the two 390 husqvarna bikes on pawn stars wanted $12,000 at first he settled for $7,000.

How much can the value increase on the husqvarnas? There finally getting there just do in the limelight.
These new dirtbike riders just don't know the history of the Swedish dirtbikes. Nor the old European hare scrambles.
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If you find the right buyer you could get allot of money.
Or you get no money.

I bought my 85/87 Cr500 Motard build for almost $4,000.
More or less new/nos but it´s not a stock bike.

There was an 87 Cr500 for sale this summer that was "brand" new.
Started three times and NEVER ridden.
$8,000
I have a friend that have spent $7,000 on buying new Minarelli AM6 50cc engines so he can tune them.
If you find the right man that have left most of the logical mind at home, you will get money.
For me that lives in Sweden and have worked on Husqvarna (Chainsaw) factory there is only two brands.
Husqvarna and Husaberg.
I pay what i feel is right.

And then I build a fort so my fiancee won't kill me.
 
justintendo said:
so youre saying she knows what she is getting into when she marries you right?
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Lol.

She is well aware of what she get.

-She told me ones that she is probably on like place seven on my list.
1;Dog
2:Bikes
And so on.

But that's who I am.
I think our second date was in my garage.
She was sitting in my racing chair reading a book and I was tinkering with my Kawasaki.
 
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