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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Actual news on the KTM purchase of Husqvarna

fletchman45 said:
One thing is certain if I had to take a KTM or Husaberg(Remember this is if I were stuck on Gilligans Island for a long long time ) And Marian wasn't there! If I had to pick between the two. No prob Norm your Blue Clone bike wins!! Why? Well the wheels are blue it has a skid plate! And it is only $100 more then a KTM And looks well nicer! It's all good but lets do a quick reality check. The original Swedish Husqvarna guys are the ones that started the 4-stroke revolution and came out with a competitive high output 4-stroke. Yes I know many people were mad or upset about the buyout from Cagiva around 87 or whenever but the Italians did kind of keep it going in true Husqvarna fashion. And yes the old Husqvarna guys were drinking beer and didn't like the Italian thing (I understand we all have our pride!!!) And formed Husaberg! Well I am sorry but hey a rebadged Italian Husky would have a hec of a lot more in comman with the true Husaberg then a Rebadged KTM!! Ok Ok just trying to be funny. I like cloned Husabergs way more then KTM's LOL!!! Hey at least if you end up with a Huskyberg I would bet it has better power, handling and sex appeal!!! Don't take any of this personal please!! But most may be pretty accurate we shall see !Take with a grain of salt and sip some fine Italian wine! It's all good!
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Maybe Coffee will set up a big charter trip, so we can all go to Milan in November. The whole CH crew can see SP unveil the new Husky brand and if we don't like it.... form a mob!:oldman:
 
southy said:
Will just mean Bajal will also be the major share holder of Husqvarna.
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Nope, SP owns Cross industries which owns WP and owns Husqvarna soley for the moment,.......I'm pretty sure he didn't need any financial backing to "buy" Husqvarna soley so it's completely his unless he decides to let KTM buy into it. He has a big loan due very soon which means probably selling off some if not all of his controlling interest in KTM and I'm sure Bajaj is ready to take over financially. However everything that makes a KTM a KTM (WP, Cross, etc) is SP's and he can have HSQ plugging along fairly quickly without KTM should the relations with Bajaj go sour in the event of a take-over of KTM.
 
Well.......should I buy a new 310TXC? Sold my 10 TC250 and 11 449TXC and miss having a Husky. New 310 TXC'S are being blown out at $4999. I figure nows the time to buy!! So many rumors out there.
 
fire1998 said:
Well.......should I buy a new 310TXC? Sold my 10 TC250 and 11 449TXC and miss having a Husky. New 310 TXC'S are being blown out at $4999. I figure nows the time to buy!! So many rumors out there.
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If you find a '13 310TXC for that price then take it and run.
 
Norman Foley said:
My Husky District Sales Manager said.... All new TC250 and TE/TXC250/310 for '14 and no 450 until '15. DI WR250/300 was put on hold, last Fall.
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Considering the source, this is one of the more revealing revelations (speculations?) in this thread. Last I knew KTM didn't have a 310 engine.
For 2014 production to start on schedule I'd think that the Italians had already all but finalized the designs, and parts were being produced. Would make sense for a number of reasons for manufacturing to remain in Italy at least for the short term; basically new factory, skilled labor familiar with facility and product etc.. Did the district sales manager happen to say what language the workers assembling these 2014 models will be speaking?
 
This is getting really, really confusing.

So many reports on what's happening, who really owns what - and that "ownership" is the really important matter.

Bajaj seeking to get full controlling interest in KTM?

Well, that would be an interesting thing - long expected, from my point of view.

I do believe that that would give them controlling interest in Husky. As I feel in my (very ample) guts that Bajaj are the financiers of the Husky purchase.

Meh, who the flip knows? - I'm having a ly down - I'll not be getting back up, for quite some time. That, I 'am' sure of, as I've just been on a great ride.

Though, I doubt that it's been as convoluted and treacherous a 'ride' as this whole Husky buy out has been.........
 
Howard V said:
This will disappoint some, but I like it.


http://www.indiancarsbikes.in/motor...ual-purpose-enduro-motorcycle-in-india-70199/
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BAJAJ AUTO - READY TO RACE !

Just add numbers.....

"Notably, Bajaj Auto was one of the first Indian motorcycle makers to produce a mass market, dual purpose motorcycle in the form of the Bajaj Enduro SX based on the Kawasaki KB100, a motorcycle that was ahead of its time. Once the Husqvarna dual purpose motorcycle arrives into India, the clock would have come a full circle for Bajaj Auto. Bajaj Auto is expected to manufacture the dual purpose Husqvarna in India. Like other KTM motorcycles built in India, the Husqvarna could also be exported to countries across the world. Also, Bajaj Auto is expected to come up with a racing series revolving around the new Husqvarna dual purpose motorcycle, in line with what it is currently doing with the KTM Duke’s Orange Days.



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I just caught up with this article in motociclismo.

http://translate.googleusercontent....-54842&usg=ALkJrhhAB68IkKQ7_UZm_gw2PeJcjddY8w

Giovanni Castiglioni finally breaks his silence on the BMW - KTM Husky deal and answerS the criticism from those slagging off at Cagiva. Kudos to the the Castiglioni's, I have great respect for them. No matter what you think about the Cagiva days, they certainly had passion and built some fantastic bikes and kept the brand alive during the previous GFC - does anybody remember the 1987 stockmarket crash and how bad the motorcycle market was from 1988 through to 1992? Even KTM went broke over that period and nearly disappeared forever. If my memory serves me correctly from the magazines articles back in the day, SP was the accountant working for KTM at the time they went broke and along with a few others, got to buy out KTM for a song.

As far as the Cagiva Husky's go, I guess you don't appreciate what you have until its gone. At least I have still got mine and will keep going it forever, just like my old Swedish bikes, they get better with age.

The bottom line is, BMW made a great cash offer to Cagiva in order to get a slice of the KTM offroad market. Cagiva thought - why not! and staked their future and cash into a relaunched MV-Augusta. The irony is, BMW have handed Husky along with the future of the Euro off road market to KTM - the very company BMW was trying to knock off in the first place? I guess this is what the you call an "EPIC FAIL".
 
I will forever have a fondness for the Cagiva bloodline because of their GP bikes and John Kocinski:

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Fighting the big factory guys in the early '90s was maybe even more of an asymetric war than it is now. The MV logo is cast into my clutch pressure plate - how cool is that? If it said BMW, Kymco or KTM instead it just wouldn't be the same.

I'm just a sentimental old fool...:lol:
 
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