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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

husky now KTM next

+1 on Halls!! Nicest guys to talk to and parts pretty much available anytime. I waited a couple of weeks for a rear turn signal that I broke off but also got instant advice when I suddenly lost my speedo unexpectedly!
 
It sounds like you guys over the pond are having a rough time with parts, especially up north.

Paul Feeney group became Husqvarna distributors in Australia a few years ago and really revamped the Husky name over here. Parts/accessories are easily available and there are far more dealers around. The whole brand had become a lot more professional, i guess they saw what that attitude did with KTM.

Husqvarna are becoming a lot more of a force (here in oz anyway) which is about time too as every second bike on the trail in Oz is orange. There are loads of huskies at the bike meetings here and the current aussie off road champ Chris Hollis rides Husqvarna.

Sounds like Canada needs a new importer. Actually, North America Husqvarna sound like they could do more with the brand than they do. One factory Husky in the GNCC? (ozi rider Glenn Kearney, taking over the states we are, one championship at a time).

Husqvarna's are excellent bikes, the rest of the riding community just dont know it.
 
I had some trouble getting parts when my brand new bike had some troubles- I even vented about it on here. Bottom line- I want husky features not offered by japanese bikes ( more power, 6 spd tranny, fi) with the japanese dealer network. I lost 2 months on a bike I had for a couple of weeks. Since then, the bike has been awesome, but it still leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
 
Problem solved

Just looking at this thread and a few months have passed. Just wondering if the BMW/Husky partnership has been sorted at all? Also, does anyone know of a parts supplier in the lower mainland vancouver area? Looks like a great product in the 450 just the usual complaints from people regardless of the make of bike. It seems to me that if you want a solid reliable bike you need to buy a drz400(which I have) and never worry again. the problem is I want less weight and more power so I'm being forced to try and decide which of all these bikes will be the least pain in the ass. Not that enticing a prospect I have to say. Ktm people say the Husky's blow up. Husky people say the KTM's blow up. And everybody says the Aprilias blow up, catch fire or never start in the first place. I am at a loss for what to do. Maybe just send the lump from my DRZ to Eddie Sisnero and stop thinking of the other bikes entirely.

Rant over.:thumbsup:

Cheers,
t
 
All I gotta say is if all you knew was a person in your imediate family had the winning weeks lottery numbers, you would call all of them until you found which one it was. Then why don't people do the same for parts? I understand trying to support your local dealer. But if thet doesn't work, then use computer of phone or here to find what your looking for. Some of you seem to complicate this and make it into "Indiana Jones and the Legend of the Missing Husky Part"! Not tough stuff folks. Not meaning to sound harsh.I am not. Heck.......Scotty even said he got the stuff.
 
I had every part in stock that the OP wanted.

I just did my yr end parts inventory and I have about $50K (dealer cost) of Husky parts in stock right now. Let me know if I can help until the rest of the CDN Husq dealer network is sorted out.

scott@rossrochersales.com
 
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