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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Unadilla.. Vintage Rewind May 30 - June 1

Having some fun on the vintage XC course. 6 motos and a XC race on the same bike. I love 125's...
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I think Joe C , said Drew had a 85 250WR, which it, looks like he swapped the tank for 83 & a homemade safety seat.
 
85 Wr with a custon 83 tank to clear radiators and a safetey seat. I made them. They work nicer than stocker setup
 
Any update on Gary ? how is his leg ???

Talked to Gary Saturday, he broke is leg in 4-5 places (cracked) right below his knee & is to have surgery on Tuesday His Doctor is a
X-games specialist, and said the surgery is one he preforms on skier's . He was in good spirits

 
i am glad to hear Gary is in good hands. Sports doctors are the best when you need to get back close to 100%

John - I got everything on the 390WR engine all cleaned up and am getting set to start repairing the center cases. I was surprised to find the webs over the top of the crank (seems much like an auto crank). Seeing one broke off and caused the damage, what function do they perform? Should I try to restore the feature? The 82 and newer cases have a more conventional crank well
 
Hoping Gary is recovering well, here's some action pictures my daughter took of his 1st moto.

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Gary's on the inside line here.

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plenty more to come
 
Yeap, I was chatting with Pat this year, talking about the old days racing at Fishkill, Walden, Claverack. He even mentioned the time his Dad chained is motor into to his frame LOL.
 
Wow great to see the Photos. Hi all. What a great weekend. Had me just a little moment on the last lap of my moto. If you look at the last photo above just 25 feet before , I did a simple foot tap down to hold bike a bit.

In a milli second
I broke my right tibia plateau in a few pieces. No crash just foot tap down. It hurt a lot - thought I just twisted knee - looked at leg said no bone coming out so I finished the moto !!

Well my sister in law just broke two legs falling off her porch, brother in law fall off roof in Mich last winter removing snow build up and ice and broke pelvis.

I guess what place is better that the GP track at Unadilla to have a moment!!

Only regrets bike was working fantastic. Wanted to race all my motos. I not fast as age 20 but it was great to feel the Husky working at the Dilla. Hundreds of races but never broke anything in old days.

That was a brand new original tank I installed for the race too. So I said yeah let that bike race and I was so Happy that John raced it and great friend Jeff had a chance to race it also

Just want to say thanks for all the feedback. It was great weekend - great to pit with HuskyJohn and daughter Allison. Could have not made home without Jeff. Joe Chod has more Husky stories than anyone I know - please challenge him on anything Husqvarna. Norman thanks for your support. And Randy and Henryetia from Houston great folks and friends to be at race with. No words can describe friends Frank and Ric from Rome they are part Unadilla hill people I think.

Thats the Dilla weekend. Nothing like it
 
that foot dab and radial twist is a killer on old bones...this is a real common one for old bikers and mountain bikers..a positive move is required and avoiding get the heel down first. hope it pulls together ok
 
john....your daughter get any pics of me on MX track?

Yeap, only she couldn't $ afford to get them all developed at one time, she said she took close to at least 1 roll for each
of us. I've got a bunch more to post tonight or tomorrow, 2 more rolls should be ready in a day or so, then another 2 & so
on so forth, til all 8 rolls get developed.

She's been eyeing a digital camera , but doesn't what to just trash all her expensive 35mm lens. It looks like she found Pentax
makes a body where the older lens can still be used, I told her to do her research cause it's big $ to shell out.
 
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