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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2014 Husqvarna Journal

What do you guys think of that subframe? I wonder how much they cost to replace?
Looks like a Mud magnet.
 
They are nice, built very well and much better than the cheesy KTM aluminum one. The carbon fiber sub frame retails for $1000 though.
 
So, I've been outta the fray for a while, but today I got the "journal" and I'm all sorts of confused...

Are the new Huskys using all KTM parts/motors or do they share Husaberg components?

Is Husaberg gone as a brand?
 
krieg said:
So, I've been outta the fray for a while, but today I got the "journal" and I'm all sorts of confused...

Are the new Huskys using all KTM parts/motors or do they share Husaberg components?

Is Husaberg gone as a brand?
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Man you have been out of the loop. ALL Italian based bikes are gone. Husaberg has been renamed Husqvarna and Berg is gone.
 
You're right Kelly. I've not been paying any attention for almost a year. Until I got the journal in the mail.
 
krieg said:
So are the new Huskys using former Husaberg motors or KTM or a bit of both?
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the Bergs were largely KTMs anyway. Basically changed / upgraded KTMs. So thats what "Husky" is now. Same basic motor and frame and components with some different colors and flavors but 90% KTM. The Huskabergs get the plastic subframe, different suspension (surprisingly all linkage :thumbsup:) and white plastic and husky logos. If you like KTMs these should be fantastic bikes. I'm sure they will be very good and well supported. the downside for me is ALL the Italian design bikes are gone and the 125 and X-lights will be missed. So will the 449 and 650 platform by many. I have yet to ride a bike that handle as good or better than the X-lights.
 
I got mine a couple of days ago and I guess I have a little different take on the whole thing than most. It seems to me that Piere is really trying to promote the brand in a much bigger way than the Italian or Germans did. The fact that they are little more than rebadged Husabergs is not really such a bad thing considering that they only had 6 mo. to put something together to keep the Husky and Husa dealers supplied with product. All in all this could be good thing for Husky, only time will tell if they will truely become a more unique bike than KTM but I suspect there will eventually be some substaintial differences.
For those that think Husky has lost their identity I would suggest that maybe Huskys real Identity is that of a survivor. It has been continuiously produced (albeit by different manufacturers) for over a 100 yrs and that in itself is an Identity.
 
rajobigguy said:
I got mine a couple of days ago and I guess I have a little different take on the whole thing than most. It seems to me that Piere is really trying to promote the brand in a much bigger way than the Italian or Germans did. The fact that they are little more than rebadged Husabergs is not really such a bad thing considering that they only had 6 mo. to put something together to keep the Husky and Husa dealers supplied with product. All in all this could be good thing for Husky, only time will tell if they will truely become a more unique bike than KTM but I suspect there will eventually be some substaintial differences.
For those that think Husky has lost their identity I would suggest that maybe Huskys real Identity is that of a survivor. It has been continuiously produced (albeit by different manufacturers) for over a 100 yrs and that in itself is an Identity.
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:thumbsup:


Why do you have to always be so sensible and level headed? :D
 
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