Hello All, I have read a lot lately about the KTM/Husky merger and have seen a lot of negativity in the comments. I have 2 Husqvarnas and although I like my TE449 I find my 2009 WR250 does all that I ask. Yes I am no young gun being 48yrs young. But, I am no slouch on the bike and have no trouble keeping up with younger guys on newer bikes. I go to the Dalby series trail rides where they average about 400 riders each. My point is this, I would love a new bike but like all of you I will have to wait until Husky release the things and even then I may wait a year and see what they are like. There is nothing wrong with what we already have and in reality how many of us can ride it to its full potential. Letti finished second at Ezberg on a 4 year old design so the bikes can't be that bad. Yes I am disappointed in what BMW did but at least we may see the bike design move forward now and see some more race teams.We just have to have some patience at this stage and see what the future holds. Just don't buy a pumpkin.
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Be happy with what we have
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Nordic
Husqvarna
A Class
The point about riding to a bike's full potential is very good. Having been away from bikes for 30 years, I am stunned at how good new machines are right off the showroom floor. Your comment also makes me think about how fast riders were on the technology that existed back then: technology that would be really dated now compared with a standard production bike.
ajaxauto
Husqvarna
Pro Class
My 300 does everything I need it to do and more. all the little things I have done along with the money spent on Ohlins suspention has made the bike just work great. the new KTM 300 is $8500 dollars then add around 2,000 in spares to go racing is a lot of money to spend. I have had a great year of racing and even with all my good finishes the Husky contingency would not justify the cost of a new bike Plus factor in that all most everything interchanges on my husky with my other 4 Husky from 2006 up gives me a lot of parts IF NEEDED Every 2 years I get a new husky since 2006 I keep telling my self I need a
new race bike yet the one I am replacing works fine and I still ride them So yes I was thinking of another 300 but it will not be a KTM I will wait to see just what the heck Husky can build that is so new so trick and work so well that I will gladly spend over 10 grand for it
Until then I have a CR 125 a CR 165 a Wr250 a wr/CR300 and TE510 with a plate so
OK Husky/husaberg you want my money show me something special because a Blue and White Husaberg with a Husky sticker on it does not excite me .
I am glad so far BWW does not own it any more as they did little to advance the Husky brand in the racing world. BMW did build a few new bikes that you could mount your suitcase to the side of aka Adventure bikes But that is not what Husky is about Now maybe we can get back to building RACe bikes
new race bike yet the one I am replacing works fine and I still ride them So yes I was thinking of another 300 but it will not be a KTM I will wait to see just what the heck Husky can build that is so new so trick and work so well that I will gladly spend over 10 grand for it
Until then I have a CR 125 a CR 165 a Wr250 a wr/CR300 and TE510 with a plate so
OK Husky/husaberg you want my money show me something special because a Blue and White Husaberg with a Husky sticker on it does not excite me .
I am glad so far BWW does not own it any more as they did little to advance the Husky brand in the racing world. BMW did build a few new bikes that you could mount your suitcase to the side of aka Adventure bikes But that is not what Husky is about Now maybe we can get back to building RACe bikes
ray_ray
Mini-Sponsor
I hear ya both loud and clear ... ESP on building racing bikes and bmw... And I hope for no blue rims or blue anything really on these first new bikes ... Not that they don't look good, but save that for the Bergs history ...
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My WR250 2t is now promoted to my daily bike with the 250 4bangers waiting in the wings ...Its just too cool a bike to sit and its hard as nails so far ... It always deliveries the mail on time ...
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PS -- Nice stable of bikes you have also
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Amen. TR650, TE511, WB165, Dont need anything else and am not looking for a new bike. These are all setup for me and cover everything I need. Unique looking, work great and take me where i want to go. All get ridden frequently and all perform flawlessly. I am also 48, almost 49, ride a ton and very happy with my "old" huskys.
I cant get excited about that at all.