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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

New Australian importer/distributor

nev..

nev..

Terrarist
This doesn't just affect TR650 owners so I've posted a thread in another section, but I'll link to it here so that other Australian TR650 owners can keep an eye on it.
PFG has lost the distribution rights to Husqvarna in Australia and the existing KTM importer, AHG, is the new Husqvarna importer/distributor. Looks like potential for a shakeup of the dealer network in Australia as a result of this.

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/new-australian-husqvarna-importer-distributor.37177/

I'd suggest not posting in this thread and posting any news/rumour in the linked thread so that all Australian Husqvarna riders might see it.
 
Thanks for placing here nev as I don't browse other areas of the Cafe.

AHG keep on getting bigger & bigger. Not good for competition in our small Aussie market. That's a discussion for another time...
 
Thanks for the info nev
Great... NOT... moss tool in untrained hands:eek:. (if they keep them at all!)
I went to your link and discovered why KTMs are so expensive...AHG
 
PaulC said:
Thanks for the info nev
Great... NOT... moss tool in untrained hands:eek:. (if they keep them at all!)
I went to your link and discovered why KTMs are so expensive...AHG
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I don't know about MOSS tool in untrained hands. Only the existing Husqvarna dealers have the MOSS tools, supplied to them along with training by PFG, and they have bought them so they own them. Any dealers appointed by AHVA to sell Huskies in future will have the KTM tool, as 2014 Huskies onwards will share the KTM parts so there will be no reason for them to have a MOSS. Existing dealers who retain their Husqvarna dealerships will also get the KTM diagnostic tool. (So that's a bit of a win for them if they weren't already KTM dealers because now they can presumably perform KTM dealer functions.

The latest news I have heard is that existing Husky dealers will retain their dealerships based on their past sales record, and the number of bikes they carry in stock, so there might be a few smaller dealerships with huskys in the corner who don't do many sales who will lose them, and in future there will be a minimum requirement for dealers to carry stock.
 
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