• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Huskynoobee said:
It's got a severe case of ADD. Look, there's a chicken!
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Ok, did you see the chicken fall from the sky, or did it run across the ground? Alice Cooper was once accused of biting the head off of a chicken on stage (way before Ozzy choked down the bat). Seriously, the real drama of this whole thing is being played out in Italy still. However, without Pierre AG being in Austria, I don't really know what the Italian government will accomplish beyond words....
 
I would welcome the Husaberg airbox and rear grab handles (yeah I know our Huskies have them, but the ones on the Berg are pretty nice), but let's keep the good ol Husqvarna steering geometry. :D I hate the quick-turning feel of the KTM/Husaberg.
 
It looks uncomfortably close to BMW's rather anonymous efforts to me. No gunsight = no deal. :)

The stylists of upcoming brand new Huskies have an interesting problem - there will have to be a nod to Husky heritage (no point in buying the company otherwise), but they will have to differentiate themselves from the immediate past somehow. Blue and yellow might be seen as twisting the knife by Husaberg customers. I always liked tricolore graphics but obviously there's no Italian connection any more. Red, white and a little bit of blue is always a good combo... ;)

I'm just hoping that they resist the urge of gaudy coloured frames. It can work, but it usually ends ip looking like something a kid with a bunch of spraycans would knock together in his dad's garage.

It's always fun to see people's photoshops (especially when some lazy journalist gets fooled by one!).
 
7point62 said:
It looks uncomfortably close to BMW's rather anonymous efforts to me. No gunsight = no deal. :)

The stylists of upcoming brand new Huskies have an interesting problem - there will have to be a nod to Husky heritage (no point in buying the company otherwise), but they will have to differentiate themselves from the immediate past somehow. Blue and yellow might be seen as twisting the knife by Husaberg customers. I always liked tricolore graphics but obviously there's no Italian connection any more. Red, white and a little bit of blue is always a good combo... ;)

I'm just hoping that they resist the urge of gaudy coloured frames. It can work, but it usually ends ip looking like something a kid with a bunch of spraycans would knock together in his dad's garage.

It's always fun to see people's photoshops (especially when some lazy journalist gets fooled by one!).
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The 449/511 style fender has the gunsight molded in BTW
 
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Motosportz said:
"Take me to your leader"
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She does have a little of the alien grey about her. Or maybe the Borg Queen.

A logo on the front mudguard does not a brand make though, imo. Even when it's not covered in mud.

Some time ao I had my Husky parked outside the factory where I used to work. It had the badge on the front mudguard, but spare "naked" blue tank panels fitted. Some damn fool asked me if it was a Yamaha! The Italian technicians on site knew what it was though.
 
7point62 said:
She does have a little of the alien grey about her. Or maybe the Borg Queen.

A logo on the front mudguard does not a brand make though, imo. Even when it's not covered in mud.

Some time ao I had my Husky parked outside the factory where I used to work. It had the badge on the front mudguard, but spare "naked" blue tank panels fitted. Some damn fool asked me if it was a Yamaha! The Italian technicians on site knew what it was though.
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I get that all the time now, they think it is a newer Yamaha and are like :eek: when I say 04 Husky :cool:

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TXC449 in white and I peeled the black sticker off of the front fender logo, too.

Still looks like nothing else on this planet :)

I may do black no-logo side panels on the 511 beside it..arent big bore Huskies supposed to be black?

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