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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

$4995 New TR650 Strada

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Husqvarna
A Class
http://www.cycletrader.com/Husqvarn...a|2318034&keyword=Tr650 Strada&sort=year:desc

What's the meaning of this? How low will the price go?

From all the introduction rumors last year, it does indeed seem like they were stacking (warehousing) them deep and now they are selling them cheap.

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My te511 was 6500$ to my door tax and everything delivered from southern, ca.

Hard to sell a bike that is no longer supported by the oem.

I wish they were a paralell twin. Would have been a great bike.
 
That's a low mileage demo bike. I wonder how much more is tacked on for the OTD price.
 
These TR650 especially the Strada will go for all prizes. I bought mine say 2 months ago with 300 km for euro 4.200,- in Belgium. The Strada's were not so popular as the Terra's and the Huskie warehouse was full when KTM boss bought the brand and dumped all BMW engine based Huskies. From the Husky factory only the sales department is left over to sell the stock.

Honestly the bike has no superlooks but it is a nice and relaxed bike to ride, especially if you compare with the other single cilinder competitors. I am very curious how the prize will go, but in my eyes the only way is down. All dealer will like to sell this "outdated" and "impopular" model asap.

Even we are big fans of our TR650, we have to face the facts that commercially this TR650 is a big disaster for BMW as well as for KTM. Better for the KTM boss to swallow this loss quickly then to let it swear for many years. The sale has begun, see how it bad it get in the current economy.

For the consumer like us it is a much better situation, we can enjoy a good quality bike for less then China bike prizes. I think about to buy a second one in the Phillipines, because they become dirt cheap and in this way I even have my spare parts assured.

An advice I can not give for this 5000 dollar prize, but it would not surprize me if the prize will go down even a 1000 euro or dollar more. My guess was that the 4.200 euro for a demo bike that I bought was about bottom in Belgium, but it only based on my feeling.

Best Regards, John
 
Funny thing is, in the US, Terra's were cheaper than Strada's due to the ABS (I think). But, supply and demand has caused the Terras to cost a bit more now.
 
broadwayron said:
Funny thing is, in the US, Terra's were cheaper than Strada's due to the ABS (I think). But, supply and demand has caused the Terras to cost a bit more now.
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Yes, the Terras sell out much quicker. My local dealer sold out the Terras a lot faster than the Stradas. I think they still have a couple Stradas in inventory. I bought the last Terra. All of the bikes came from a lot they purchased from another dealer closing out. The local dealer is still a Husky dealer with new models on the floor.
 
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