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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Actual news on the KTM purchase of Husqvarna

The little trucks are fun to look at, cute and a step above using small MCs to move huge loads of various types in Asia etc.
I like them!
 
Back in 1987 I was stationed in Japan and they were everywhere then. Difference was some had 2t motors back then. Very small skinny roads too. Being 6'4" with a 38" inseam they won't be in my future unless I have 8" chopped off the legs. Are cushmans still around?
 
organ donor said:
Now that the thread´s been hijacked, you might as well just show pics of fat people and their trucks.
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Challenge accepted.:eek:
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mnb said:
Considering KTM is already overpriced… I don't think it's going to fly.
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I was at the Motocross Races today...lots and lots of KTM's...there so called premium pricing does'nt seem to be holding them back...in terms of bike sales...people will buy husky if there is value...which will be created through marketing and racing...you'll see.
 
I think like has been said many times, Husky has been under priced when you average in the year end fire sales each year. There was never enough profit to sustain the brand, much less finance a serious racing program or buying off the mags with advertising to get complimentary/fair test ride reports. :excuseme:
 
If SP really intends to "double Husqvarna motorcycle sales" I don't see how pricing it *above* KTM is going to help achieve that.
 
Radar said:
When I bought my bike the lower price was not the deciding factor.
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People say this all the time... but I think if we could all be honest those that bought Husky over KTM the past few years were largely swayed by price. Then because nobody wants to look cheap we take the marketing reasons provided by the manufacturer and claim that to be the excuse.

This doesn't account for everyone... but in the west in the plated enduro market it is a big big factor.

There is also the rebel crowd that bought Husky because it is not a KTM even when they dont think their Husky is the better bike. Some of those guys eventually up grading to Beta. Beta has the non KTM logo with better than Husky fit and finish. Funny how a KTM clone can be perceived as an anti KTM product.
 
I didn't buy a year end blowout. I paid near MSRP for my '11 TE310 not long after they were released. I bought it because I liked the bike. The price didn't really come into it. Sure, it was less than a KTM, but I couldn't care less about KTM. It was similarly priced to the rest of the dirt bike world instead of overpriced. I bought it because it fit me better than any other available model and I was fond of my '03 TE610e.
 
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