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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I was trying to explain the Terra to a friend...

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Husqvarna
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I just bought a Terra, absolutely LOVE it!
Of course I posted pics on FB and told all my friends.
I was trying to explain the details of the bike, Swedish company, German motor, made in Italy, and a friend said:

So it's a HusqaBeemErrari!

I am still LMAO!
 
Ya, it's hard to explain Husky without making a full history report. It's even more complicated than the abbreviated version you posted.

I hope Husky can live on in glory under the new ownership. Whoever the engineers are they seem to be quite good and create pretty dang good bikes give what they have to work with.
 
Jesper said:
Wrong.
Swedish heritage, German ownership, Chinese motor and made in Italy.
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Ya, that's a bit closer except now it's Austrian ownership and ??? only history will tell us exactly what that will be.

I wonder if there's any semblance of Swedish influence left?
 
I hate the fact that ktm has completely ignored the fact that husky was also built in Italy. I guess it's hard to sell a new bike that's inferior to what it replaced. Now it seems when someone younger asks about my husky, they think it's a ktm. Very frustrating! I have to explain to them that this is a real Husqvarna, not a rebadged ktm:(
 
Agreed. I reckon it's a minor tragedy that KTM has absorbed and essentially discontinued two great marques; Husqvarna and Husaberg, both of which created some great bikes, some of which were better than or just different from the KTM lineup.
 
danketchpel said:
Ya, that's a bit closer except now it's Austrian ownership and ??? only history will tell us exactly what that will be.

I wonder if there's any semblance of Swedish influence left?
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That wasn't a bit closer, it was correct. The TR650 is not build under Austrian ownership, and the thread is about the Terra.
 
268fords said:
I hate the fact that ktm has completely ignored the fact that husky was also built in Italy. I guess it's hard to sell a new bike that's inferior to what it replaced. Now it seems when someone younger asks about my husky, they think it's a ktm. Very frustrating! I have to explain to them that this is a real Husqvarna, not a rebadged ktm:(
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Some might say, that a real Husky is made in Sweden
 
Thanks to the global economy it might never be described accurately. In that scenario it could be made by "Wee Little Smurfs" on Planet X that emigrated from Outlandia to work in a factory in BFE, ran by a Portuguese company who orders parts made in Timbuktu by Austrian watch makers.
 
Jesper said:
Some might say, that a real Husky is made in Sweden
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I would agree with this. Along with Volvos, SAABs, and whatever else has left Swedish production.

I'd love to have an old Husky 2 stroke. I think something like this sweet '82 WR430 would go nicely in my garage.

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A friend of mine had this Husky 250 for a long time.

 
would love to have a good look at that motor! it has swede cylinders but a lh chain? and dual disc in the front?
 
and a 6.8 gallon gas tank that is molded into the bike some where. Looks like packaging fuel tanks was better back then! Then only 300lbs. Makes our bikes out to be hefty pigs with small motors. LOL The Nuda is 429lbs wet and 3.4 gallon fuel tank. I think some numbers were fudged around. If not they were way ahead of their time.
 
Hey RA and justintendo, I waited for years but sadly it never eventuated. Given its height, weight and 800cc of 2 stroke power I think it would have been a evil machine, at least for the average joe blow. Flipping at 140k ! or getting blown off the road by a cross wind at 170k sounds possible!.... Bit like the H2 kawa or the XL with the 23" front wheel. hmmm balls of steel
 
Link said:
I just bought a Terra, absolutely LOVE it!
Of course I posted pics on FB and told all my friends.
I was trying to explain the details of the bike, Swedish company, German motor, made in Italy, and a friend said:

So it's a HusqaBeemErrari!

I am still LMAO!
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I'm going to use that as a nickname! hahahaha
 
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