• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

typeone said:
oooh, that would look HOT. will do later on, need to crank on 'real' work for a bit :D (cant stop reading/thinking/staring at these new bikes)
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My wife was upset because I never get time off and this is all I've talked about lol. I'm thinking a 449 and te300 will get me to shut up...for a little while lol
 
Well, it is a little disappointing that not much of the Husky bike is Husky except the name and the sticker, it looks like a KTM with Husky BNG.

I guess my WR-300 is now a collector's item.

http://www.racerxonline.com/2013/10/07/2014-husqvarna-line-unveiled

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So are these ultimately just Bergs with Husky stickers? From looking at both they look completely identical. Also no street legal enduros?
 
TITO said:
So are these ultimately just Bergs with Husky stickers? From looking at both they look completely identical. Also no street legal enduros?
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Kinda, some upgrades and one big one, linkage on all bikes. I greatly prefer the linkage but man does the linkage stick WAY down on these bikes or what?
 
They look cool but to me it's due to very busy bodywork and graphics. That was the cheapest way to do a makeover. And any street legal bikes would need to pass EPA certification and why there are none. I like the fact that the '13's are collectable now. End of line. I imagine prices will parallel KTM now. I am less likely to buy funny colored vinyl, especially that institutional blue and yellow. I think black vinyl best for the seats, etc... The fender shapes etc... are KTM. Hoping for a more distictive Husqvarna down the road. New is always cool but new tends to be old within a few weeks time. At least the '13's will stand forever in the history of Husqvarna.
 
My buddy is cheap so when his crap stock KTM kickstand folded like a cheap kite (they are garbage and have been for years) and tore his seat he went to the fabric store and did this. Orange alligator baby. I actually really liked it.

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Well saw the new 2014 lineup. If i wanted to buy a Husaberg, i would have bought one. Gone are the Huskies lads. IMO the best year was the 2009 bikes. Wish i still had my EFI 510.......
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I probably should stay out of this discussion, but I am amazed after reading this forum for 4 years and the over riding sentiment being the vast majority owned Husqvarna because they either hated KTM or just wanted to be different. So now we have basically KTM's with different plastic and many are ready to place an order.
I would suggest save some money, buy a used KTM and order the new Husqvarna plastic....

Sorry, but I am having a hard time with this also, loved my Italian Huskies, and I wanted to conquer KTM, not join them.
 
Neesmo31 said:
Well saw the new 2014 lineup. If i wanted to buy a Husaberg, i would have bought one. Gone are the Huskies lads. IMO the best year was the 2009 bikes. Wish i still had my EFI 510.......
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The big difference to me is the linkage. But I bet it still will not handle like a husky x-light package. They will be great bikes they just are no longer huskys as we knew them.
 
water racer said:
I probably should stay out of this discussion, but I am amazed after reading this forum for 4 years and the over riding sentiment being the vast majority owned Husqvarna because they either hated KTM or just wanted to be different. So now we have basically KTM's with different plastic and many are ready to place an order.
I would suggest save some money, buy a used KTM and order the new Husqvarna plastic....

Sorry, but I am having a hard time with this also, loved my Italian Huskies, and I wanted to conquer KTM, not join them.
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Don't worry the fire will be redirected. Beta is next best so they'll be the new target lol
 
water racer said:
I probably should stay out of this discussion, but I am amazed after reading this forum for 4 years and the over riding sentiment being the vast majority owned Husqvarna because they either hated KTM or just wanted to be different. So now we have basically KTM's with different plastic and many are ready to place an order.
I would suggest save some money, buy a used KTM and order the new Husqvarna plastic....

Sorry, but I am having a hard time with this also, loved my Italian Huskies, and I wanted to conquer KTM, not join them.
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Pretty much how I figured the fallout would be. Even seeing it on the husky fanboy site where those three people are discussing it. The bottom line is these are Bergs which are possibly better KTMs but still KTMs. As you noted and we all noted over and over if we wanted this bike we could have been riding them for years now. I read the other site and some are excited and I have to wonder why those people did not just by a Berg or KTM a long time ago? It is what it is. I think they look great and are sure to be fantastic bikes and get rave reviews. The done side is we lost a choice plain and simple. We gained nearly nothing. It did make the bergs look better and have a linkage so that nice. Buy wahtever motivates you and ride.
 
After all this disappointment, I am really considering trading my 2012 TE310 in for a 2014 TE310R since it will be the last of the Huskys for what may be an eternity... I looked at a 350EXC back when I bought my Husky but wasn't $3500 more impressed by the KTM. It's either a 2014 TE310R or a CRF250X or keep the 2012 TE310 or??? Undecided I am:confused:
 
reveille said:
After all this disappointment, I am really considering trading my 2012 TE310 in for a 2014 TE310R since it will be the last of the Huskys for what may be an eternity... I looked at a 350EXC back when I bought my Husky but wasn't $3500 more impressed by the KTM. It's either a 2014 TE310R or a CRF250X or keep the 2012 TE310 or??? Undecided I am:confused:
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the nice thing is there are no bad choices these days. Piles of great bikes to choice from.
 
They look great but i allready own a one of those but whit ktm logo..

my only wish now was that someone made cagivas (09 husqvarns) again.
 
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