• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

All 2st A sad sight at my nearest KTM/Husky dealer

My idea of the sad sight is going into a dealership where the owner had achieved AA status riding Husqvarna in the past and now has a scooter on display which is of the Peoples brand made in Tiawan and has discontinued carrying Husqvarna. I am not talking hole in the wall size dealership.

The top riders seem to switch from brand to brand what is wrong with the customer doing it? How may years did ktm come with tapered handlebars before Husky followed suit?
 
fletchman45 said:
If you were a dealer and made more on orange bikes then red/white ones which would you push to sell???? Now factor in the fact that the orange crap is cheaply built and requires more parts to maintain then a Husqvarna and BINGO!!! I was told this myself years ago buy a dealer who quit selling Husky's!! In 2004 I won Vet A (On a CR 250 Husky) The KTM guy at the awards banquet said if you had been on a KTM you would be getting $500.00. I simply replied, if you gave me 2 free KTM's to ride for the year I would rather see them burning in my driveway. This is the truth. I simply HATE orange. But that is the problem. Husky also needs better PR with the magizines and needs to throw more perks their way. (Alot of people really listen to what they say!) Fact is I wish I worked for Husqvarna. Because I would do the best I could to promote the brand. I remember in around 92 or 93, I was pointing out why a freind of mine should have a Husky instead of his YZ (hec Husky's had dished out bolts all the way back then if my mind serves me correctly) I put on a darn good sales pitch and he said holy cow are you sure you don't work for Husky. I thought to myself I wish. Anyways BMW if I (I mean we) must put up with your involvement then please do ALL that you can to make money yourself and promote the brand that we on this website are loyal to!!! And KTM guys, be glad some one bailed them out in 1991 when they were filing bankrupt and were just about done (god I wish I could have drove that stake........ whoops sorry got off course for a moment!!) look where they are at now!!! If the italians had done what they should they would.........................ok ok I would need hours to properly finish all this..................
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before i bought my husky wr300, i was looking at a ktm 300exc from the dealer. I already knew a bit about the ktm's i mean they are everywhere. When try to make a deal on a 2011 ktm because the 2012's arnt far away i thought well if he wants to get rid of the 11's show me a good deal... PPPFFFTT didnt want a bar of it he told me everything i already knew saw me only as a young hoon (21yrs old) and said i'll become a better rider on that bike or it will make me look like an advanced rider at that point i told him i was also thinking a husky wr300. So now you think he lay on something good to keep me in the shop but nop he said if u arnt buying the bike im not cutting a deal, 1 you never gave a deal for me to think about, 2 you suck at trying to sell me a bike and 3 why are you bashing husky so much?

His reply was because they break and they get ppl trading for ktms... your unlucky if your foot pegs snap c'mon cant win me over by saying how bad husky appreantly is...? I then went to husky where straight up honesty told him how it was what ktm said and bam i got honesty back and he cut a deal including skid/pipe guard and radiator guards with a lower price to begin with and huskys bike feel lighter bit taller and when i read huskys 300's go harder then the ktm 300's i smile and cant wait to line one up on the trail. ktms are not better by anymeans
 
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HuskyWR300 said:
before i bought my husky wr300, i was looking at a ktm 300exc from the dealer. I already knew a bit about the ktm's i mean they are everywhere. When try to make a deal on a 2011 ktm because the 2012's arnt far away i thought well if he wants to get rid of the 11's show me a good deal... PPPFFFTT didnt want a bar of it he told me everything i already knew saw me only as a young hoon (21yrs old) and said i'll become a better rider on that bike or it will make me look like an advanced rider at that point i told him i was also thinking a husky wr300. So now you think he lay on something good to keep me in the shop but nop he said if u arnt buying the bike im not cutting a deal, 1 you never gave a deal for me to think about, 2 you suck at trying to sell me a bike and 3 why are you bashing husky so much?

His reply was because they break and they get ppl trading for ktms... your unlucky if your foot pegs snap c'mon cant win me over by saying how bad husky appreantly is...? I then went to husky where straight up honesty told him how it was what ktm said and bam i got honesty back and he cut a deal including skid/pipe guard and radiator guards with a lower price to begin with and huskys bike feel lighter bit taller and when i read huskys 300's go harder then the ktm 300's i smile and cant wait to line one up on the trail. ktms are not better by anymeans
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Got YA! Good for you. I do believe there are good KTM and bad KTM dealers out there just like anything else. I know that 300 Husky motor rocks doesn't it! All the magizines complain about the kick start lever being funky. I have been kicking on that funky kickstart lever for years and years and it DOES NOT feel funky to me!!! (Not recently because I'm on a smallbore) Stick with Husky. The BMW thing I now think is good! I got a Husky newspaper in the mail for the first time in my life and it looks like things are getting better. And with the lower Husky price a guy can afford to do a few things that he would do to any bike! ood luck with your new scoot! And may I say good choice****************************************************************************************************************************************************************!
 
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