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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Don't look now but....

HuskyDude said:
This is what I just received... Don't know how true it is either.

Husky will put $2500 rebates on everything but the 650s. Which will get a $1000 rebate.

Kinda tells ya how much profit are in these bike from the factory.:thinking:
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ALmost but really not a good tool to measure "mark up." Remember that Husky was bought out as we all know and we really have no way of knowing what figures were used on existing units etc. Surely at a reduced rate as part of the "lot" purchase.
I don't think this is a liquidation maneuver as some stated or fear, but just the new ownership looking to get some of initial investment back into the coffers so to speak and sell off the bikes quickly. They got them right, dump them and on to the next big event. It really makes sense.
 
Motosportz said:
:eek:


Uh er... WHAT!!!


Wonder what a WR250 might go for then?
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Pretty stinking cheap. Prices that won't be seen again for a very long time if ever. Now you know why i might have another new dirt bike for a used bike price....Can't pass it up
 
Ken Woods said:
Thought I should take the time to apologize for any perceived general shittyness directed toward ToyBoy a couple of hours ago. I wasn't trying to be an ass, I promise! Didn't want him (...or anyone) to feel like they needed to be vindicated, at least from anything I posted.

I'm a new member here, and I'm still learning the rules and culture! Most of the other internet related motorcycle forums and mail-lists I'm a member of are......caustically abrasive.

Enough of the flowers and puppies and feel good crap, though....I'm headed back up to the shop. I'm trying to make room for the terra!
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Hi Ken,
Thanks brother but we are totally good. I didn't take it personally. Was more relieved than "vindicated" actually. Was worried that I was the little boy crying wolf more than anything. I knew info was fresh but thought there are more "in the know" people than me on here that would have heard it as well and would have echoed my statements. You said it best and I was really only posting it for the good of the order in the long run.
One thing I learned about forums, texts and emails is that without the inflection of the spoken word, it is easy to be mis-understood. So again, no worries on my end, thank you for your post.
Now, the most important thing for me is to do my financial "goesintas" and try to figure out if I can swing a deal on a 2 stroke bike. Always wanted a WR150.......hmmm a Strada would be nice too... So many bikes, so little time.......
 
I've seen deep discounts on Husqvarna a few times before....when BMW dropped the $8,999 price of the TE 630 to $6499 for instance.
My TE 310 came heavily discounted as well (mid $5k)



Ken Woods said:
That makes you sound exactly like FOX News, and therefore are a little untrustworthy.
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This isn't the place for politics - but since you've thrown out your opinion....

In my opinion - Fox news is the one place you don't get a severely left-skewed view of things.
I prefer that, they are my first choice.
 
Toyboy said:
...One thing I learned about forums, texts and emails is that without the inflection of the spoken word, it is easy to be mis-understood...
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No truer words have ever been typed... and that is the entire reason for these types of symbols, which help tremendously :cheers:

As far as all the other back and forth.... there is a constant ebb and flow of rumors behind the scenes, while all of them have sound plausible and in the correct context are at least partially true - I've found it best to ignore them until either there is enough evidence from enough people where it is common knowledge, or something is publicly announced.

And if things are apparently posted too early on this site, I've found it is best to wait & see as opposed to possibly dismissing (or confirming) the information publicly.
 
Contacted dealer over here. Theres no worldwide Husky-HQ-instigated sale. Husky policy is that national importers deal with rebates, not HQ. Therefore its hardly fire sale from Husky as a company per se. Its just US importer's step towards clearing current inventory.
 
All that I was able to confirm is what some have already found out and posted. 1000 off on Strada's, 800 off on Terra's, 2500 rebate on any dirt bike. Applies to what is left in inventory on dealer floors and what is in importer's stock. Probably going to grab a new WR125 with the 150 kit. Only 2 stroke available.......
Mario could very well right, might just be the US importer cleaning out house but certainly better than a sharp stick in the eye.....
 
RidingDonkeys said:
Still not seeing the promo anywhere in writing. Has anyone seen an official publication yet?
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This apparently was for dealer eyes only, I wasn't aware of that part til mentioned further up in the post but did confirm that part too. I don't think you will see anything at least at the moment from Husky.
 
My buddy just put down a deposit on a Strada too because of this deal. He too was looking at the BMW F700GS--though I was trying to get him to do a head-to head demo with the Husky. After he heard about the special pricing he decided to bite on the Husky. He is planning to demo the bike saturday morning just to be sure he likes it. We already know how that is going to go :)
 
Ha, funny how things go crazy. I was just razzing ya.

Rebates to clear the '13s from the floor is one thing. Heck there are still '12s on show room floors. I really didn't think any sale would happen on the TR650s beings they can't keep them on the floor.

They just had that $1500 rebate on a lot of bikes that ended at the end of February, my guess would be that they didn't clear out as much as they wanted and decided to do another round. Bumping the amount though is a bit hard on dealers. I would assume that a lot of these dealers with the really good prices would have seen the last round of rebates as the best deals that were going to happen, took initiative and bought up the bikes on their floor that didn't sell, so that they could pass that savings onto the customers. In that scenario, dropping the price an additional $1k would sting a bit.

And to make sure things don't get too far off topic, I obtained a spy photo of a 2014 WR 300. Enjoy.

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I just called my dealer to put a deposit down on a Terra. He said that he called his rep today after receiving my e-mail and was told that program doesn't go into effect until the end of this month. He said nothing official yet. Who knows? I'm getting impatient.:banghead:
 
nev.. said:
Don't get too excited over a sale. In Australia there has been a $500 cashback on every new Husqvarna bike for most of our summer.
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Hey Nev, did you get this deal? If so, how long did it take for Husqvarna Aust to pay up? I've been waiting two weeks...
 
Just bought my 2012 TE310 last Saturday. It is an awesome bike had for a great deal. Sounds like it might have been an even better deal this weekend, but then again who knows. Perhaps this is only for 2013s. What I do know is that I will be riding and enjoying it just the same. Springtime in MO!
 
Did some checking and it seems the rebates are to the dealers: how much goes to the buyer is up to negotiation. The rebates are to clear the stock in the BMW USA pipeline out to the dealers rather than reposition it to the KTM system, supposedly. My guess is that Pierer AG paid very little for Husky and each bike in the pipeline actually has a very low imbedded cost to Pierer and moving them out quickly will return a lot of the purchase price back to Pierer.

The amounts referred to in the early post seem to be what I was told. Might be a great time to pick up another Husky!!
 
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