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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Unsure what to do....

Bigbill

Bigbill

Husqvarna
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I think having a husqvarna dirtbike in a 250cc, a 390cc, 430cc and a 500cc all 6 speeds would be neat. Maybe even an automatic. All restored in excellent condition. But on the other hand maybe I should go with a 2015 husqvarna 2t 300? But I like the comfort and handling of the twin shockers.
Being a big man can feel a flex between the swing arm and frame on my '98 & '99 husqvarna. The twin shockers seem to be more stable and the frame and swing arm feels more rock solid. Both my '98 & '99 were registered for the street. This is where I felt the flex between the swing arm and the frame. I wish sometimes they would go back to the twin olins. The single shocker seems to try to pick two lines.
Now my '99 Suzuki 1200 bandit with its monster swing arm never did that but look at the size of the swing arm. With me being educated in the structural design and fabrication I think a better design could be done. When the metal is put in a vertical position that's where most of the strength is. Maybe the design of the mid 80's husqvarna swing arm was better because of its boxed shape.

I don't have all the answers but I'm torn between the older and newer husqvarna. I still like the huskys and won't ride anything else.

I got off the bandit because of the speed. I found myself going faster and faster. The bike was so smooth you didn't know how fast you were going. Speed can be addictive and the end result not good. I found it hard to throttle back. It was time to get off of it. I was a good rider and could drag the pegs on the ground with the best of them in turns. Advertised as a sportbike it could hang with the gixers.
 
The mono shocks are well known to "pick two lines". That was one of Husqvarna's reasons for keeping the ITC twin shocks in the '80s I think. The newer stuff has sorted that out I think.

Kind regards
Lucien
 
I loved the way the twin I olins handled. I always thought someday we'd see them back again.
 
the twin shock ITC was a great setup, sadly the public image was awful. dual shock was like reintroducing air cooling at the time. didnt matter that all the best riders were winning with them... that being said, im working on an 84 right now to be a RIDER for next year. i didnt get enough weird looks or looks of disbelief with the 88 this year!
 
face it...theITC was pretty close to perfect for an out of the crate twin shocker set up. as a young bloke in the late 70's and early 80's, anything with "ohlins shox" was a serious weapon....
 
Remember in the old days some looked down upon the olins. But then again most husqvarna haters lost there races to husqvarnas. There's quite a race legacy when it comes to the husqvarnas of yesteryear. Now the olins are making history on dirtbikes and snowmobiles.
 
Olins weren't the hot ticket years ago. Nor were my husqvarna bikes. We rode husqvarnas while everyone else rode kawsakis and hondas. The older riders who knew the husqvarnas from the old days would give a thumbs up.

Exactly right inexperienced and uneducated.

The olins were the hot ticket many years ago as they are now.
 
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