• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Brittle plastics on newer bikes, why ?

Motosportz said:
I think we were lied to. I don't think Stephan is going to cough up parts for our bikes like he promised. I don't think huskys will ever be much different than KTM like he promised. I think the end game was always to get rid of husky and simply market more KTMs with the name. Hope I am wrong.
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I found almost the exact same words coming out of my mouth the other day while talking to a KTM riding buddy.
 
Alberto said:
Who is Stephan?
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Stefan Pierer Pierer Industrie AG

"Pierer Industrie AG, a stand alone company set-up and owned by Mr Stefan Pierer, has, with immediate effect, acquired and taken over in full Husqvarna Motorcycles. The company, the recently modernised factory in Varese, all parts, stock and staffing are now owned/controlled by Pierer Industrie AG."

- which was nothing more than smoke and mirrors show so they could get around the anti-trust laws.

Also promised not to sell the factory and move the production which happened almost immediately. Not believing a word that comes from them from now on.

"Former Husqvarna PR man Martino Bianchi confirmed that the factory near Varese will be shut down this month and production transferred to one of the KTM factories in Austria. This is a below-the-waistline blow to the economy of the region. Local politicians have not stepped in to prevent the move that KTM’s parent company, Pierer Industrie AG, promised would never happen."

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Slowly but surely, Bajaj Auto continues to gobble up pieces of KTM’s stock. Taking its investment position now to just over 47%, Bajaj has acquired another 6.3% of the Austrian motorcycle manufacturer, and is projected to continue acquiring stock in the company.
The second-largest motorcycle manufacturer in India, Bajaj is also the second-largest shareholder in KTM, with KTM’s largest controlling position belonging to Stefan Pierer (KTM CEO) and Rudolf Knuenz (KTM Chairman of the Board), whose combined holdings come to just more than 51% of the company.
 
Motosportz said:
Stefan Pierer Pierer Industrie AG

also promised not to sell the factory and move the production which happened almost immediately. Not believing a word that comes from them from now on."
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I tried to keep up on the interviews and I missed him promising not to shut down the factory.
From what I understand about "Italian labor relations," I wasn't surprised when it happened though, IE the "Huskys sent to sleep with the fishes".:excuseme:
Let's not loose sight of the fact that after all a tough world market.
Having said that I still hold out hope there will be parts availability because there is money to be made and SP is smart enough to realize that screwing over a segment of the MC market isn't a good idea. IMO removing competition and the resulting bad press could alienate more than just the Husky crowd and have long lasting effects.
My fingers are crossed.
 
Motosportz said:
Stefan Pierer Pierer Industrie AG

"Pierer Industrie AG, a stand alone company set-up and owned by Mr Stefan Pierer, has, with immediate effect, acquired and taken over in full Husqvarna Motorcycles. The company, the recently modernised factory in Varese, all parts, stock and staffing are now owned/controlled by Pierer Industrie AG."

- which was nothing more than smoke and mirrors show so they could get around the anti-trust laws.

Also promised not to sell the factory and move the production which happened almost immediately. Not believing a word that comes from them from now on.

"Former Husqvarna PR man Martino Bianchi confirmed that the factory near Varese will be shut down this month and production transferred to one of the KTM factories in Austria. This is a below-the-waistline blow to the economy of the region. Local politicians have not stepped in to prevent the move that KTM’s parent company, Pierer Industrie AG, promised would never happen."

also...

Slowly but surely, Bajaj Auto continues to gobble up pieces of KTM’s stock. Taking its investment position now to just over 47%, Bajaj has acquired another 6.3% of the Austrian motorcycle manufacturer, and is projected to continue acquiring stock in the company.
The second-largest motorcycle manufacturer in India, Bajaj is also the second-largest shareholder in KTM, with KTM’s largest controlling position belonging to Stefan Pierer (KTM CEO) and Rudolf Knuenz (KTM Chairman of the Board), whose combined holdings come to just more than 51% of the company.
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Some of the reason I'm not interested in the white KTMs myself.....
 
Super5onic88 said:
I'm sure the plastics on my 449 are all made by Polisport. Found their little stickers here and there.
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They'd be better than the shit fitted to 13/14 te250/310r then.

Here's what I did today.
YZ guard, needs to go back 20mm but it is a retro fit, went on easily with some predrilled holes.
Some stickers will see it ok.
Thicker and better plastic than the OEM husky crapola.
 

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Dangermouse449 said:
Each to their own Moto :)
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Just can't get on with ktm, tried an 07 250excf, bog off idle, revved well, gutless though, sold it.
Bought a 13 300exc, hated it.

Bought a 14 te250r, apart,from plastics, absolutely love it.best bike I've had,in years and I am a massive Yamaha dude, so that's saying something.
 
rabskyline said:
They'd be better than the shit fitted to 13/14 te250/310r then.

Here's what I did today.
YZ guard, needs to go back 20mm but it is a retro fit, went on easily with some predrilled holes.
Some stickers will see it ok.
Thicker and better plastic than the OEM husky crapola.
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I think they're polisport on the 250/310r too.

YZ front guard match the Husky rear nicely
 
Ya I put a ktm front fender on I think it looks like an updated husky fender with the black triangle middle. Front to mounting holes lined up and just drilled 2 new holes for the rear mounting holes, and bonus the trailtech headlight mounts right up to the ktm fender
 

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rabskyline said:
Dealer wanted $20 for a sticker, none in the country though, all imported wtf ?
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How come your sticker was so cheap????
The one on the 449 was listed at $45**************************************** The frigging guard was only$52!
I ended up going to a Husky mower dealer & got a brushed alloy badge for $25. Stuck it the the front race plate & then used the backing to make a new sticker out of vinyl for the guard :)
BTW, on 449, guard comes with a sticker (doesn't show on parts list that way)
 
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