Are online forums a reason you bought a Husqvarna Bike?

Oh big time!
If the groups with the 610's weren't so good to let you know what the issues have been and the fix's.
I would not have bought the best DualSport bike built.

Its a funny thing...I bought my first 06 CR after viewing a buyers guide issue in cycle canada magazine...I was always a 125 2T guy...

It was the red and white that got my attention....reminded me of the husky days in the 70's...

I rode it for the first year....and it wasnt till I started searching on the internet after... that I found that I wasnt the only guy interested in husky's....thats where I found all you great folks on here....

I did....My TE510 was my first dirtbike ever, and I bought it from a neighboring state sight unseen. If it wernt for the good info on the forums i never would have known about Husky~

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These forms MADE me buy two Husky's (08 CR125, 09 TXC510).. LOL now I am looking into a third! You guys need to stop or ban me from seeing your bikes and reading your great post.

I don't know I was looking into a bigger 2 stroke ; WR250/300. I have an 04 Aprilia RSV 1000 Factory for street duty. See I am needing somthing between the 125 and 510 and the little 2 stroke reminded me how much fun they can be. See what you did, now I am thinking about the 610 LOL.

After riding Russ's 07 TE 450, I knew that I wanted a REAL dirt bike with a plate. Based on what I found on ThumperTalk, I decided to buy an 08 TE 450. Without the forums, I would be on a Honda CRF450X.

Almost everyone I ride with I met on TT.

Yep, absolutely.

I bought a BMW f650 to get back into Motorcycles after not riding for 20 years. I bought that bike strictly cuz I liked how it looked. "dual sport" seemed cool, but I'd never ridden on dirt before.

Once I had that Bike, I started exploring a bit and found I really liked going off the beaten path. I also rapidly discovered that though I "could" lift it. I can't really lift it 5 or 6 times. After one or two falls, exhaustion sets in making more falls almost inevitable.

SO I started looking for a smaller bike, but nothing had what I liked about the Dakar, long service interval, reliability and decent road manners. I relied very heavily on online reviews/opinions to steer me to the Husky 610.

So far I'm really happy with it, even though it tried to kill me on my third ride.

Yes, it started with watching my first Dakar (when it still on "SPEED", mid 90's?). That planted the seed. Then I got into dreaming of long offroad trips & found "Horizons Unlimited", while reading that web site, one of the small bikes they recommended was the TE 610. So the internet search was on. Unfortunately they weren't available in Canada.
I stumbled onto TT, talked to many new online friends.

Mike Kay convinced me to get the 510 Along with positive reports from others on The Big Bad Wolf (BigBob, etc. )

Wasn't for me.

I grew up liking sports and certain sports personalities. Then you link them with the brands they represent. In the period I was interested in motorcycles, Husqvarna was well known and was winning.

Decades passed before I ended up with my 08 TE 250 and I considered KTM, Honda, Kawasaki and Yamaha but decided the Husky was better looking and went over to Uptite to take a first hand look.

On-line forums were definitely one of the reasons I bought my Husky.
It's how I first learned of the bike being available and where I learned all the issues and praises others had for the bike that ultimately swayed me to pull the trigger on it.

I had wanted a Husky since seeing them in local desert races in the '70's, but with no local dealer, it became extremely rare to even see one around my area, let alone ride or buy one.
It wasn't until spring of 2007 when a fairly new dealer brought out a '07 TC510 demo bike to one of our club rides, that I finally got to ride a Husky for the first time.....came back giggling like a little school girl w/her first crush.

Couple months later I noticed in one of the fourms, that the local dealer had just got in a new '05 TE510 he had found. Our monthly trail club meeting just happen to be hosted at his shop the next Monday so I did some reseach in the Husky forum over the weekend, then looked the bike over Monday night.....after a restless night, re-reading the mostly highly positive stuff in the forum, went back to talk to the dealer at noon Tuesday.....he said $5199.....I said "SOLD!".