• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

Actual news on the KTM purchase of Husqvarna

new's HUSQVARNA=
SWEDEN october 2013
ITALIA november 2013
(EICMA 5/10 november Milano)
FRANCE
(Paris 2/8 Décember 2013
salon de la moto )
 
I have not kept up with all the latest news, but do we really know at this point that Husqvarna wont be more distinct than Husaberg was?
 
Kartwheel68 said:
I have not kept up with all the latest news, but do we really know at this point that Husqvarna wont be more distinct than Husaberg was?
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No but it seems the writing is on the wall. New owners talk about shared motors and frames and suspension and how Berg is gone and replaced with the husky name as it is more recognizable around the world. I;m sure there will be some level of uniqueness to them like there is with the Berg but far from a completely new bike and unique to husky like it is now. Yes all speculation at this point but many things seem pretty clear. Now some will say this means "Husky" sells more bikes, has top level racers in all types of racing and will be huge for the brand. Well thats only if you look at it for what it is, a company and it's unique offering disappearing and looking successful as a KTM with different colors. Thats to me is not "husky" being successful that slapping a sticker on the KTM and calling it success. IMHO.

I read on other forum how this is awesome for husky and they will sell so many more bikes. Really, "husky" is selling bikes or we are being sold KTM's? I like KTM just fine, thats not my issue. My issues is the rebranding. So if we slap the "husky" name and logo on some POS Baja scooter and it sells 30000 units is this husky success too?

In the end none of this affects me personally. I have several great bikes to ride, have no stake in the game nor do I have any ownership in any of this. If i want sexy Italian inspired designed there are still several great choices. My point is just like when the Swedes sold to the italians you are going to loose some customers because it is a drastic redirection of a brand. Its great that the name lives on, it is a proud brand. I just hate seeing it loose it individuality, uniqueness in design, and the quirky little fun to mess with machine I have grown to love. I own 3 huskys and two Saabs, I like different and I think many here do. Thats the part that stings more than anything with all this. Its not the cool Ferrari / MV anymore, it is a cool Toyota / VW now.

Again just my random thoughts and feelings. Maybe everything will be wonderful. None of it really matters as we will all just buy the toys we like and enjoy.
 
From the MX side of things I think the four stroke engines will be better. However I fear the WP suspension will overshadow that advantage.
 
kneehurts said:
I'm thinking some of us should get together and buy the Varese factory and continue to build nicely priced, well engineered and beautiful motorcycles. I'm ready to move out of the US since it's gone to hell anyways. We could hire back the better performing Italian workers and off we go. I'm half serious. I'm sure the Italian government would float us a nice zero interest loan to get some people back to work. We would have to establish a new dealer network, which would be the hardest part. We could just purchase a license to the Cagiva name and off we go. Better yet we could call it Vor and probably not have to pay anyone for a license. Who's with me?
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The problem is Italy is further down the "road of good intentions" to hell then the U.S. is. Going to Italy is like leaving the frying pan to jump into the fire.

We need to fine a better venue.

I dunno, my Taiwanese SYM Scooter is azz kickin'
 
Tinken said:
Many people see this new merger as KTM taking over Husqvarna. Looking at things at a different perspective, I see Husqvarna taking over KTM. Time will tell.
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thats the Sprite Tinken like i said before S,P. owns the whole deal if he wants to be #1 he's got to build a bike thats better than aKTM
 
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