• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I wating that new supermoto soo bad.....I wanna see how it will going to look+what engine it will come
 
As far as the forum goes, people will go where they can find what they want / need. KTMTalk, ADVrider, CafeHusky, BMWMOA, even ThumperTalk all serve their purpose. Their are enough people who venture back and forth between the forums like I do to make it a non-issue in my mind. If people are looking for KTM LC4 info over at KTMTalk, they are often referred to ADVRider because there is an abundance of information there. When someone shows up at CafeHusky with an issue on a KTM based 2014 Husky, they will probably get pointed to KTMTalk as it may be a carryover issue from 2013 KTM / Berg models. Folks with Italian or Swedish Huskys will continue to be referred here from other sites. Sites gain and loose members based on the quality of the conversations in the forums. If you don't want this site to grow any bigger, just refuse to embrace the post-Cagiva models. I don't see larger forum membership as an issue as long as the infrastructure can handle it. The only real downside is that the larger the population is, the greater the chance of a d-bag finding their way in. When that happens, there is always the housekeeping button and the ability for mods to ban individuals, give a time out or put them on probation. Rivalries in motorsports are best when they are friendly. The forums should be no different. OK - that was enough rambling
 
Well said RXC -
Will the new Husky's actually 'be' Husky's or not may be debated by purists but the brand will probably flourish. I know quite a few hard core riders who are old enough to remember the original Husky's and would love to ride a Husky but have chosen other brands to ride. One recently bought a Husa300 and another a Husa500 - and a few more are sounding pretty excited to see the new Huskies. I predict the crowned H bikes will be warmly received.
 
MikeB said:
Well said RXC -
Will the new Husky's actually 'be' Husky's or not may be debated by purists but the brand will probably flourish. I know quite a few hard core riders who are old enough to remember the original Husky's and would love to ride a Husky but have chosen other brands to ride. One recently bought a Husa300 and another a Husa500 - and a few more are sounding pretty excited to see the new Huskies. I predict the crowned H bikes will be warmly received.
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funny statement, the Italian Huskys really are Huskys but not to the people that believe a company has no right to sell it's business to others, the company that created the motorcycle division was taken over by bean counters and as such it was specifically a fiscal decision and nothing personal, now to the die hard fans they are not true blooded because they were mixed with Cagiva blood :eek:
so I find myself on two of the forums here pretty regular, I have 3 Husky 430, a 500 and 250 of 85-88 vintage and bought a 93 360 on a lark, really did like it but bought a KTM 380 at that time too, now let me be clear I am a KTM fan but prefer the handling of the Huskys as better for what I do, that said the 380 was an awesome bike, so much easier to start and jetting (Kiehin) was a snap, but here is a twist of events the KTM had a 5 speed and the Huskys had 6 speeds and I prefer the extra cog so I opted to sell the KTM, since then my KTM buddy has switched to the Husaberg line and they really are more tuned for my style so I am looking forward to seeing the end result ;)

well kids one more exciting BS day and the cat will be out of the bag, so enjoy the conjecture :banana:
 
so currently there is a tab for 2 stroke (which infers Italian) and Vintage Left Kickers which infers old
so that said will there need to be a new Kusky tab :D
 
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