• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

KTM NA is having sales meetings here in the next couple of weeks. Some word on distribution may come out of those meetings. May I said, so far KTM NA will not acknowlege anything with reguards to Husqvarna.
 
I think the "transition period" with BMW is until the end of May. Maybe there is a gag order on talking about the future until KTM 100% officially takes over?
 
ScottyR said:
I think the "transition period" with BMW is until the end of May. Maybe there is a gag order on talking about the future until KTM 100% officially takes over?
Click to expand...
Fred said Husky NA Corona could be done as early as tomorrow and would transition to KTM USA then....
 
Xcuvator said:
So I take it that Fred still has a job there?
Click to expand...
Fred still has his job, until the transition to the new KTM USA run Husky. He has not been offered a position in the "New" Husky USA.... Fred is going to help his dealers sell Huskys and race Huskys until he's told to stop.
 
Norman Foley said:
Fred said Husky NA Corona could be done as early as tomorrow and would transition to KTM USA then....
Click to expand...

I think that rumour has been squashed. I have talked to a few guys who work for HNA and they sure dont know anything about the Corona offices closing?
 
ScottyR said:
I think that rumour has been squashed. I have talked to a few guys who work for HNA and they sure dont know anything about the Corona offices closing?
Click to expand...

In these types of deals there is not going to be a friendly heads up I don't thing. Slash and burn unfortunately as we have seen already.
 
ScottyR said:
I think that rumour has been squashed. I have talked to a few guys who work for HNA and they sure dont know anything about the Corona offices closing?
Click to expand...
Husky Reps were told at the meeting in March, at KTM USA Headquarters in Murrieta... That Husky NA was done in 60 days, with a possible 30 day extension. It was not made clear if this was calendar or business days... It's about 60 days out this week.
It's still an assumption, but it's hard to believe KTM pay the rent over in Corona, when Husky can be run like Husaberg, out of KTM USA Murrieta, with a few offices and data lines... Jon Erik wouldn't have to leave the premises to run Husky.
 
Such an arrangement also leaves open the possibility that some of the folks in Corona could be retained and commute to Murrieta. Some of this depends on how much appearance of independence they want to project, as opposed to operational efficiency.

These details help tell the story of the future, but I doubt that all such decisions will be consistent. Moving office space around in fairly cheap in the grand scheme of things, and who knows what the timing and terms are on the current spaces.
 
Boogie said:
My new bike is 3 up, 4th row from the back.

raiders_of_the_lost_ark_government_warehouse_new.jpg
Click to expand...
ha small world boogie, mines just in front of yours! what are the odds?
 
AGAIN!! NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING****************************************! AND ALL IS JUST RUMOR AT THIS POINT. Walk softly carry a big stick and believe NOTHING till you see it with your own eyes! And look twice to be certain****************************************
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top