• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

LandofMotards said:
I think Huskies are going to be priced more like jap bikes rather than KTM. I'm to busy to go through my CSI mindset right now though, it's be like a short book lol
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I have heard some steeper prices but I shall keep them to myself until bikes hit the sales floors.
 
photoguy_43420 said:
That already happened with BMW, my long time dealer left Husky, because of their new corporate model . They brought in a lot of ex KTM people and their ways too. Cagiva USA ran it like a small importer should, flexible and family like. KTM isn't going to be any worse than BMW, to US Dealers.

Norm remember when Cagiva took over from Husqvarna in July of 1986 dealers started to leave in droves they were not interested in small dealers wanted. That is why in Ohio we have 2, Michigan 2, and Indiana 1. Before Cagiva took over there where like 30 dealers in those three states. So Lets hope it's not ran like Cagiva or BMW ran dealerships and more like it was ran when Husqvarna Sweden ran it.

On the lighter side I can't wait to get some of that gear it will go great with my 87 CR 430 the last "real" Husqvarna LOL!
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All too well! My KTM/Husaberg dealer, was a Husky dealer back then. He's still bitter after all these years, at the treatment he got at Cagiva NA's hands. Most Husky dealers were Mom and Pop dirt bike shops and couldn't handle the Cagiva and Ducati street bikes. Ferracci and Cagiva USA, ran it more like the old days. He still has doubts about Husky, even thought it's in KTM hands. I hope KTM treats Husaberg dealers well, through this transition....
 
So, I can go buy a 2014 Husqvarna WR250 that's made in Italy from a old Cagiva design for about $4700 OTD, or I can wait a bit and get a 2014 Husqvarna TE250 that's made in Austria, that's a Husaberg, made from KTM parts with a linkage for about $9400 OTD.

Hmm, think a TE is twice as good as a WR?

Let's see, both bikes have water cooled, reed valve two strokes with power valve and a 66 x 72 bore / stroke combo, steel tube frame, single rear shock, aluminum swingarm with linkage, 48mm cartridge forks, 21" / 18" wheels with Brembo brakes.

Hmm, can't be too much better.

Wait, I get a 6th gear and electric start for the extra $4700 OTD. Gee, what a deal!
 
visiteur1948 said:
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Is that a KTM motor or a BMW motor?
 
MOTORHEAD said:
So, I can go buy a 2014 Husqvarna WR250 that's made in Italy from a old Cagiva design for about $4700 OTD, or I can wait a bit and get a 2014 Husqvarna TE250 that's made in Austria, that's a Husaberg, made from KTM parts with a linkage for about $9400 OTD.

Hmm, think a TE is twice as good as a WR?

Let's see, both bikes have water cooled, reed valve two strokes with power valve and a 66 x 72 bore / stroke combo, steel tube frame, single rear shock, aluminum swingarm with linkage, 48mm cartridge forks, 21" / 18" wheels with Brembo brakes.

Hmm, can't be too much better.

Wait, I get a 6th gear and electric start for the extra $4700 OTD. Gee, what a deal!
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I've had my share of good deals on new Cagiva Huskys. The problem is that, they never really made money on them and they couldn't stay in business. Our good fortune, turned into our misfortune.... if Cagiva could have charged more and we paid it, they would still be building Huskys! I'd have my electric start WR250, in a 125/X-Lite frame. Sad, but true boys....
 
AgedFlatulence said:
Is that more or less expensive that wops, spics or zipperhead bikes?
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Oh and I actually read your other comment regarding this. I forgot that it is considered deragatory because you saying it was the first time I heard it. In my mind it's just shorthand. Sorry for the original smart ass reply but you'd get better results with a simple explanation.
 
Husky is short for husqvarna, Euro is short for European, Aussie is short for Australian, Ruskie is short for Russian, that being said .....call me honky i am not offended at All! However calling my wife " Husky" is apparently bad....real bad.. She gets upset and I get in trouble ....despite that I believe " husky " an endearing term because everybody knows I love my husky ! She just took it the wrong way .....either way my new " huskies" are going to be expensive whether it be cash..or emotional capital ....
 
Norman Foley said:
I've had my share of good deals on new Cagiva Huskys. The problem is that, they never really made money on them and they couldn't stay in business. Our good fortune, turned into our misfortune.... if Cagiva could have charged more and we paid it, they would still be building Huskys! I'd have my electric start WR250, in a 125/X-Lite frame. Sad, but true boys....
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Yep a friend of mine here in SA owns a KTM agency---The mark up on the bikes are so low it is not worth it imho to sell them --On the spares side they have a better mark up and can at least negotiate discount for people who race --Only reason I don't ride a KTM --I want to stay friends with him:D

Here I call A KTM ------ A LEMON ---Disguised as a Orange --

Hmm now we will have Husabergs --Disguised as Husqvarna's --

Im, sure I will get used to the new Husqvarna's in time--Was there when Husqvarna sold to the Italians --I was very upset but became to love the Italian Husqvarna's as well as well as the German ( BMW) Ones

Lets see what unfolds in the future :thumbsup:
 
I can understand the markup on Huskys being so low as to make it unprofitable for dealers to sell new bikes as the markup on parts makes up for it. So now I know why they make their trashy bikes so that they kayteeboom so often.
 
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