Husky pup
Most of us can recall that magical moment when we first saw the motorcycle of our dreams. For me, it was an August day in the early 1960s when I witnessed Mike Hailwood on his howling MV Agusta win the main race at Thruxton on the Italian ‘fire engine.’ But, for a young lad from Devon, it was when he attended his first motocross meeting, where he both saw and heard a screaming two-stroke with the name ‘Husqvarna’ on the petrol tank.
Resplendent in gleaming red and silver paintwork on its slim petrol tank and purposeful high rise silencer, the Husky hooked the teenage Richard Tupman and 45 years later he now has six of the Swedish off-roaders rubbing handlebars in his south Devon workshop.
Mention the name of Husqvarna and many of us will conjure up a mental image of Steve McQueen in On Any Sunday, perhaps the fabulous V-twin four-stroke raced by Stanley Woods in the 1934 TT, or if you’re a motocross buff, the big, lusty singles campaigned by Bill Nilsson and Rolf Tibblin in the early 1960s. However, it is
