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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

MikeB said:
My 2012 TXC310 has been a really great bike and has taught me a lot and has made me a bit of a 'cool' outsider and has earned me more than $1000 in Husky bucks. I wish everyone had a chance to experience what I have - but it appears the Xlites will be fading into the sunset.

I'm not afraid of what will replace them. I've read every post on this forum regarding past, present, and future ... unless I'm mistaken I read some very positive messages between the lines. I fully expect that the Husky brand will see a resurgence. I fully expect that the new 'H' bikes will be different from the KTM's they are based on in signifigant and meaningful ways. I fully expect that Husky will have a strong U.S. based factory and factory-associated race presence. (the possibilities of 'factory-associated' r&d race teams are especially exciting)
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the insider info I have on them is yes, berg like but different and VERY good. Not surprising as the Bergs have always been very good. I was super close to owning a FE390 and I LOVED that bike. I am just sad we have one less unique choice. the funkiness was part of the draw for me. I;m sure the new "husqvarnas" will be great bikes just like the KTM and Bergs are now.
 
I hope the new Huskys don't come with the weird to me anyway ergos. My son had two and I've ridden a few others and never liked how they felt under me.
 
This is the finished Dirtbikemagazine project bike, TE300. Coming soon to DBM, can't wait to read the article. :D

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joedirt said:
Looks like a KTM with blue plastic.
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Take the tank and plastic off and it is virtually the same bike. Well the berg has a different (plastic) subframe and different suspension. Based on the same bikes but lots of different part numbers.
 
Interesting to see nearly all the manufacturers migrating back to silver rims. Is that just a fashion trend or some other reason?
 
Motosportz said:
Take the tank and plastic off and it is virtually the same bike. Well the berg has a different (plastic) subframe and different suspension. Based on the same bikes but lots of different part numbers.
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The engine is hopped up more on the Berg, 3 more hp stock. And it has a wider ratio transmission built more for enduro than the mx track (wider than xc-w).
Motosportz said:
I'd like the Berg more than the KTM if it had the linkage (and 300 less stickers :D) . I just prefer linkage bikes. Does Berg (soon to be husky) have linkage bikes?
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I am pretty sure the PDS stays. Though I prefer the Berg's pds, it is highly refined and feels a lot like the linkage on the 449s.
 
Tinken said:
I am pretty sure the PDS stays. Though I prefer the Berg's pds, it is highly refined and feels a lot like the linkage on the 449s.
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My favorite PDS was on the FE390 Berg. Seems to work great stock. The Bergs seem to lay the shock down at a more radical angle or at least they did on the 70 degree motor bikes.

- and what I was asking is does berg make a linkage model like KTM does? And might that continue on a husky version?
 
Motosportz said:
The Bergs seem to lay the shock down at a more radical angle or at least they did on the 70 degree motor bikes.
- and what I was asking is does berg make a linkage model like KTM does? And might that continue on a husky version?
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Even the 125's have the radical angle pds.
 
The 690 has a composite sub frame/fuel tank and I head from an owner of one that the mounting holes go after awhile and need new bushings. I don't like the idea of my butt or my fuel riding on a composite sub frame.
 
Tinken said:
They look different to me, but maybe because I looked closer :confused:
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They have probably noticed that all say that of them look the "same", so it is starting to separate them. In fact, at least I look forward to seeing what comes from Husqvarna
 
XLEnduroMan said:
The 690 has a composite sub frame/fuel tank and I head from an owner of one that the mounting holes go after awhile and need new bushings. I don't like the idea of my butt or my fuel riding on a composite sub frame.
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Sounds like something that ZipTy is going to have to find a fix for. :D
 
Tinken said:
Sounds like something that ZipTy is going to have to find a fix for. :D
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That's not going to go over well. People are already mad about putting a few hundred into a Husky that was 1500 less then the comparable KTM, not to mention the fire sale bikes lol.
 
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