• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I got a Husky Bucks contingency certificate last week.....
About to send another one in... as long as Jenna keeps responding all is well with the world.
 
Here's a post on my local forum for a long time KTM rider/racer he's got a lot of connections so I'd assume this is accurate.


trailguy said:
A little more info.
- The current red & white Husky color scheme was an Italian/Cagiva thing, thats done, Husky/Bergs will be returning to the original Husky colors of Blue/White/Yellow. ( Sorry Joe about the graphics )
- We've seen the 2014 Bergs. Looks like the 2015 Husky offroad bikes will be in fact refined/updated 2014 Bergs. Good news.
- We probably won't get any info on the new Husky MX bikes until they are launched in Sweden in October.
- KTM Canada has no obligation to the current Husky dealers Barrett Marketing set up, where if you took 10 or so bikes you could get a Husky dealership. Its also reviewing all its current Berg dealers for when things switch over to Husky.
KTM Canada will have it very structured for future Husky/Berg dealers. Like a KTM dealer, they will be required to stock the entire line up of bikes.
- Confirmed that Husky and KTM will not be aloud in the same shop. I'm guessing one dealer in Alberta will be grandfathered in with both Husky & KTM though as he does an excellent job with both lines.
- I'm 99% certain of one local shop that will be getting a Husky/Berg dealership after all the re-structuring occurs. The owner is very passionate about the new Husky/Bergs, customer service, catering to the hard core offroad riders, etc. :thumbsup: :canada:
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Color depends on where your timeline starts...

Bikes in the 60's had red tanks. My 76 250WR had a red tank with chrome insert.
Fenders were white.

In the 70's and early 80's, Husky wasn't married to any particular color. Other than the trademark chrome insert, tank colors varied.
In '83, the color scheme went mostly white, some blue and yellow. Once the metal tank became plastic in 84, it was all white, blue and yellow.
After '87, Cagiva then moved the colors to only blue and yellow (ugly IMHO).
In 07, it went back to red and white.
 
If they start making refrigerator bikes again, my next bike will be an orange KTM instead of a white one.
 
My wife thought every Honda was me at the last race so maybe blue/yellow isn't so bad. I'm thinking purple would be a real stand out lol
 
LandofMotards said:
I'm thinking purple would be a real stand out lol
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