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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Works Performance

Bill502

Bill502

Husqvarna
AA Class
Anybody on the west coast know if there still in business? I have been trying to get in touch with them and am not having any luck. Need some spacers for my shocks.
Bill
 
jimspac said:
I knew they were as late as 2013. I have not looked since. If I find them I will respond with a link.

Just checked and found this: http://www.worksperformance.com/
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There website still works,I have called and got linked to an answering machine and left a message a month ago but no replies.
Chayzed Pilot said:
The internet buzz is that they are closed................for good.
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I did talk to one of there resellers and they said there was one family member that wanted to keep it going and and another that wanted to shut it down after the owner died.
 
Gil, the founder and owner, died a while back and it sort of stayed open but I heard recently that it was closed for good.
 
a month or so ago one of the guys in our shop got a set shocks for his Dyna Superglide from them. so if they closed the doors it was recently. it's a shame because Gil and Margie where very awesome people to deal with.
 
Just called today, went to their voice mail box which was full, so I couldn't even leave a message. ????
 
Penton closed, looks like all the older places that made this sport great we're losing one by one. We all get old or pass on but no one younger wants to carry it on. That's sad we're losing that knowledge too.
 
I've been rebuilding Curnutts for the last 4 years as I worked at the factory/shop back in the day. I have tried to get one of my grandkids interested in taking over for me but that hasn't worked out as he shows little interest in doing something besides his cell phone and he's 19. I've talked with other young guys that are into bikes but they don't seem interested in the older stuff. Pretty soon all the older guys with knowledge are going to be gone and they are going to take it with them to the grave. Sad.
 
Chayzed Pilot said:
I've been rebuilding Curnutts for the last 4 years as I worked at the factory/shop back in the day. I have tried to get one of my grandkids interested in taking over for me but that hasn't worked out as he shows little interest in doing something besides his cell phone and he's 19. I've talked with other young guys that are into bikes but they don't seem interested in the older stuff. Pretty soon all the older guys with knowledge are going to be gone and they are going to take it with them to the grave. Sad.
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yes, we're losing a lot of good knowledge- hopefully your grandkid will see the light someday soon. put him on a CZ- maybe that'll work.

Have you considered making a youtube video to save some of your knowledge, and posting it, uh... ...later?

good luck.
 
I guess we had our hay day of Husqvarna knowledge in the past not many gurus left. Good thing we have this site and George from uptite. Uptite is still in business right?
 
They are closed, from Oct 24th 2016:

After decades of providing performance ignitions and service we have decided to retire from the ignition business. BJ and I are working with our dealers to put inventory in their stores and I am talking to interested parties that may wish to continue where we are leaving off selling performance ignitions.

Dane and BJ worked tirelessly for decades to keep motorcycles and karts running and along the way forged lifelong friendships. BJ and I wish to thank all of our loyal customers and dealers that have supported Penton Racing Products.

While this is the end of an era in business our family is very happy that BJ will be able to spend the time necessary to manage mother and fathers affairs and oversee their care. They are doing well and we want to make sure their quality of life is the best we can provide.

As I move on I hope to be able to pursue my interests in capturing the history of offroad motorcycling. More about that concept in the next chapter.

Thank you.

Jack Penton
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There is many of the dealers supplying Husqvarna parts that's listed in the tech ref parts section.
 
Chayzed Pilot said:
I've been rebuilding Curnutts for the last 4 years as I worked at the factory/shop back in the day. I have tried to get one of my grandkids interested in taking over for me but that hasn't worked out as he shows little interest in doing something besides his cell phone and he's 19. I've talked with other young guys that are into bikes but they don't seem interested in the older stuff. Pretty soon all the older guys with knowledge are going to be gone and they are going to take it with them to the grave. Sad.
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then there are "younger" guys like myself that have no one else in my family interested in motorcycles..lol, i wish i had an uncle like you in my family!
 
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