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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Maybe Husky will be the linkage bike (KTM XC/SX) and Husaberg will stay PDS bike (KTM EXC/XC-W). My PDS Husaberg TE250 isn't so bad.
Maybe not the end of the world, but....I used to always be a Kawasaki Kaw girl for many years. I still have a bunch of them. If Kawasaki still made the kind of bikes that I want to ride (like a serious 450 street legal trail bike, and a great updated mid sized two stroke enduro bike) I'd have purchased those instead of Husqvarnas. I really like the distinct handling, personalities and quirks of the Husqvarnas, and perhaps I won't be able to buy anymore bikes....but if I do, I'd like to stick to the Husqvarna heritage as I have known it.
Thank you. And for everyone I am not trying to upset ANYONE. Yes I like KTM bashing. But remember some of it is in jest. Not a bad comparison to how I feel. If you had a guy that you never liked (believe me KTM and true Husky guys are Arch rivals) Do not confuse the fact that yes we are all brothers and love the sport of motorcycling If you guys do not think the workers at Husqvarna talk crap about KTM and the workers at KTM talk crap about Husky. Get real! Now back to the guy you never liked anyway. Now imagine he is in charge of you. Now imagine he is going to dictate what you do and may even laugh at your designs and ideas. Now imagine your so broke and your wife has to remind you that he owns you. WOW. Yes and extreme comparison and I can only hope that all this goes in the right direction. Now take it a step farther and imagine your on a Husky and racing for the World enduro Championship.(sounds fun) Well it is the last round and even if you get first you will not win the series anyways but the guy on the KTM (dare I say team mate?!?!?) if he wins then he and KTM get the trophy. Now imagine you have just got word to pull over for 10 minutes because you can not win that day for the sake of your KTM team mate. Sound extreme. Yes. Could it happen or something similar?The fact is both KTM and Husqvarna have been arch rivals for years and years. Remember there has to be different kinds of people all over the world for different things. Right? We need cooks in the Army well because soldiers have to eat right? We also need high speed Army Airborne Rangers because at times you have to kick the door down and go in without hesitation and do your job. Yes I may be a bit extreme. For that I apologize. But remember there has to be guys like myself that also stand up for what they believe and don't look back. A few comments from one individual got me a little upset, but hey, no matter what we do or say in life we must realize we can not make everyone happy. I will proudly ride any Husky built up until the end of this year. We are all prematurely jumping the gun a bit as all of us have very little knowledge in what is going on with what I call a take over. I and everyone can only hope for the best. I hope they do not share components and let Husky go with their own engines and back to Zoke forks and and Ohlins . As far as PDS I would think KTM would not dare put that on a Husky. My god I know guys that have sent their suspension out 3 times trying to dial it in! I was stationed in in Italy for 2 years (a long time ago) in the 4th and 325 Airborne Combat Team and from what I have seen with Italians I do not think they will take to kindly to someone trying to dictate what they do. I wouldn't think the Husky guys would burn down their own factory find new investors buy the land across the street and start a new company called HusqvarnA yes capital A. But hey a guy can only hope. Nah forget the Rest In Peace they will figure something out. But if it is a KTM or has WP suspension or plastic that interchanges you can count me out. And I am sure A LOT of other folks will feel the same way...I get what Fletch is coming from...it's would be like coming home to your lovely wife of 20 years and find her screwing your friend..ad insult to injury,she divorces you taking everything you have and them marries the dude that used to be your friend...not all of you will get this(too much of a manly man to be hurt or maybe you didn't get along with your ex anyway,etc...just saying... ain't pointing fingers).As time goes by ,you see her/him hanging out with your old friends ...sorry.it's the only scenario I could think of. I "had" a few KTM riding buddies that I just got fed up with all their b/s and crapping all over Husky.When I go out to ride ,I want to enjoy it..so the only persons that make it worth it are my 2 sons (praise the lord,I just got my youngest son to experience the thrill!)..and we are ALL on Huskys
Been working on building a new house and was on a 65 hour a week job for 6 weeks, so kind of got busy. Yea. The news is sad to me. And of course got to have some fun with it. Lets see where it plays out. Not sure if I read it or dreamed it. But has the new factory in Italy been sold? And no more Husky's to be built in Italy? My whole point. No problem with what brand of a bike anyone chooses to ride. And of course I ride with guys who ride orange and we give each other crap in a fun way. And yes we drink beers together. I consider them brainwashed and they consider me brainwashed it is all good. Just a sad day to see something so extreme happen. And again unfortunately this all goes back to not having a plan. If there is EVER a ktm re branded engine put in a Husqvarna it would be a disgrace and any true Husqvarna guy would NEVER ride it just as any true KTM guy would never ride a Ktm that was made by Husky with a Husky engine and KTM decals. Please let us hope none of this happens and it may not!!! Yes for this year I will ride a Gas Gas but I sure loved and had much respect for my lightweight CR 150**************************************** I also hope that parts do not become and issue, but then again this is all speculation.I told ya's!
Fletch, what took ya so long? I know you love your HuskIES!
Shut it down Coffee. It's gotten beyond ridiculous.
Sounds great.
