• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Hey , I just found the picture on the web and thought I'd share. It's not my doing. It was on a euro website and I was sure you'd all just love to see it. :D
 
Motosportz said:
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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I never get tired of looking at that pic - and yes, I reckon it would look mint with blue rims! It makes me want to put my bike back to '04 spec, but the seat kills my 46-year-old backside...

My "Yamaha":

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apparently there's a pierer interview in the latest issue of the german "motorrad" magazine, where he's stating that husky will turn a 100% ktm daughter company.

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Do you think a successful company like KTM needs another bike lineup? Until I read it myself I don't believe it is KTMs best interest.
I do believe it is in SP interest. Someday he could be forced out of management at ktm, but as the owner of Husqberg that would never happen. It is also in his interest to make a quality product that can compete with KTM. He may want to sell it for a profit.
Those are sound business ideas.
 
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Well, if you're wondering what BMW is going to do with the 449/511 platform, it looks like they are working out something with Speedbrain. This is a new rally bike Speedbrain is offering. It's about $20,000 euro.
 
Speedbrain Customer rally bike looks great. But they have completely parted company with BMW, this is a Speedbrain solo venture.
 
Chilly said:
Speedbrain Customer rally bike looks great. But they have completely parted company with BMW, this is a Speedbrain solo venture.
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It's the same bike that they developed for BMW when they were running BMW's rally effort. I would venture to say that it's pretty much a made over G45, just as the rally bike started out. I'm sure the motor is made by Kymco, ther wheels are Husky and the rest of the bike is by the original vendors to the G45 production. They have probable bought, or have a contract to use, the BMW tooling. Speedbrian, I'm sure, is just assembling and selling them.

I'm sure it's a cost out measure for Speedbrain to reduce the cost of their now "one off" rally bikes and continue to race the bike they developed without BMW support.
 
MOTORHEAD said:
It's the same bike that they developed for BMW when they were running BMW's rally effort. I would venture to say that it's pretty much a made over G45, just as the rally bike started out. I'm sure the motor is made by Kymco, ther wheels are Husky and the rest of the bike is by the original vendors to the G45 production. They have probable bought, or have a contract to use, the BMW tooling. Speedbrian, I'm sure, is just assembling and selling them.

I'm sure it's a cost out measure for Speedbrain to reduce the cost of their now "one off" rally bikes and continue to race the bike they developed without BMW support.
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I think you are correct. They may have 3 or 4 of them and not sell that many.
 
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