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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

June Motorcyclist Magazine--Singles Club

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Two interesting articles involving the TR650 in the June, 2013 issue of Motorcyclist:

1. On Page 26, when talking about the Nuda, our pal Pierer states "We don't want that kind of motorcycle in the Husqvarna range. Our dealers won't be able to sell or service it because it's based on a BMW. We'll shortly stop manufacturing them."

2. The TR650 wins the "Singles Club" shoot out on pg.63. :thumbsup:


I personally don't think that these two articles being placed in the same issue is a coincidence. The sales numbers and critical response are all saying the TR650 is a winner. I don't think it's a stretch to say that Motorcyclist is giving it's blessing to the bike. Ari Henning (also a MC magazine employee) did a recent video hailing the TR as his preference over the KTM Duke. Let's hope that Pierer is paying some attention to the media outlets and owner responses and doesn't just see the TR650 as a baby Nuda and give it the axe.
 
Have been wanting to get a TR this spring. I am now concerned about the build gualityof this Husky. Whats the morale like on the shop floor when you have been told your gone after the remaining units are built. arrivederci saluto, addio so sad
 
RidingDonkeys said:
And couple that with a reported shutdown of the Italian production facility...

http://www.motociclismo.it/husqvarna-da-agosto-blocco-della-produzione-moto-54772
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And in English:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http://www.motociclismo.it/husqvarna-da-agosto-blocco-della-produzione-moto-54772&act=url

Translation is rough. It seems like rather than doom and gloom it's seeking clarification from Pierer or Husky since there seem to be so many conflicting messages. On a re-read it does say that they are trying to liquidate current inventory and that there is "no intention to close".
 
visegrip said:
Have been wanting to get a TR this spring. I am now concerned about the build gualityof this Husky. Whats the morale like on the shop floor when you have been told your gone after the remaining units are built. arrivederci saluto, addio so sad
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Probably better than the first production run in India on any given day. This bike is awesome, and it is still a "buy" in my book.
 
Can someone scan and post that article for those that cannot get the mag ? (Motorcyclist, June issue). Would be nice...
 
Mario, I will try to scan it tonight (might be tomorrow) after work and send you a PM with my email address. There are a couple of cool TR650 items in the issue.
 
Hey Mario,
I just got that article scanned. Sorry it took so long, it's been a very busy week. Shoot me a PM with your email address and I will send you the scans.
 
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