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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husqvarna needs a face lift ? (I like to dream)

Have you ever walked into a Harley Davidson dealer? I was in one recently (my buddy's KTM uses the same size shims as their V-rod, and only cost $2 vs $8) and saw a fitting gallery.. Basic bike. But on the wall to choose from were bars, seats, etc..
 
J.R. said:
Have you ever walked into a Harley Davidson dealer? I was in one recently (my buddy's KTM uses the same size shims as their V-rod, and only cost $2 vs $8) and saw a fitting gallery.. Basic bike. But on the wall to choose from were bars, seats, etc..
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Those bars , seats , etc ... all at huge extra cost though ****************************************
 
Being a network geek by trade, I've always said they should have you build your bike over the Internet, pay for it electronically, then after a suitable time (a week?) pick it up at my local dealer. He of course would 'maybe' have a couple of display models that would get sold at the end of the year at discount prices but wouldn't have to house a ton of bikes he may not be able to get rid of.

Same with cars...etc. I hate that I have to pay extra to NOT get an ashtray or a stereo!
 
DG Harv Serv said:
Those bars , seats , etc ... all at huge extra cost though ****************************************
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Haha yes, but the idea is still in motion..

HuskyKurt said:
Being a network geek by trade, I've always said they should have you build your bike over the Internet, pay for it electronically, then after a suitable time (a week?) pick it up at my local dealer. He of course would 'maybe' have a couple of display models that would get sold at the end of the year at discount prices but wouldn't have to house a ton of bikes he may not be able to get rid of.

Same with cars...etc. I hate that I have to pay extra to NOT get an ashtray or a stereo!
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Not a bad idea!!
That would be a great way to get the buyer exactly what they want. But I do see a downside of not having as much dealer-customer interaction.. I like talking with dealers even when Im not buying anything. There's some really cool ones out there.
 
J.R. said:
But I do see a downside of not having as much dealer-customer interaction.. I like talking with dealers even when Im not buying anything...
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I don't want to talk to salesmen, that's why I prefer the Internet in making my purchases. No one to blame but myself for misinformation. Don't get me wrong, I like going to the bike shop and bench racing with the guys. However, I know walking through the front door that I am a customer first and a friend second.
 
Selling bikes over the Internet does not work. Highland tried it w/o success. GM tried selling cars over the Internet and pulled the program (probably because the dealers griped). Beta has an interesting program, BYOB, Build Your Own Bike, where you order it to your specs and they build it that way.
 
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