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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Poll - BMW / Husky

How do you feel about the BMW owned husky direction and products as of today?

  • Total voters
    90
ray_ray said:
... 1 yr of making streeters bikes...
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Husqvarna has been making street bikes for a lot longer than one year.

'66 Factory Husqvarna 250, ridden to the Swedish Championship by Kent Andersson
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As Coffee indicated, I'm excited to see Husky, with new invigoration from BMW, making an effort back to their roots. I really don't understand why you feel the need to take it upon yourself to argue with MY feelings on the matter, or why I've taken your troll bait.
 
JonXX said:
Husqvarna has been making street bikes for a lot longer than one year.

'66 Factory Husqvarna 250, ridden to the Swedish Championship by Kent Andersson



As Coffee indicated, I'm excited to see Husky, with new invigoration from BMW, making an effort back to their roots. I really don't understand why you feel the need to take it upon yourself to argue with MY feelings on the matter, or why I've taken your troll bait.
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Thanks for the pics and history lesson on the street racers and I was referring to the current state of Husky\bmw accomplishments from the short term marriage time frame ... Not trying to argue with you any ...just wanted to point out where bmw should draw some of their lines and allow Husky to do the dirt bike works ... Seems like that was what this marriage started off as? The bmw dirt bike attempt did not go so well and poof! Husky is purchased by bmw to help them in the dirt bike arena? So why not let them design 99% of the dirt bike now?

PS -- Didn't bmw just make a super-duper road racer bike in true bmw fashion? Might be interesting to give Husky a budget and try to compete in that same area but not sure on the odds of that happening ..
 
It was smart of them to use BMW stock for the Husky. It gives some great bikes. I think their whole dirt scheme will change soon and be wise they did it this way they can invest more later. I wasn't to sure with the TC449 until I rode it, I've been dreaming ever since. Hell I've been here for awhile and still don't have one but I will someday :)

BMW bought husky so they could appeal to a different audience. They will be doing great things soon. Their sport bike was number 1 the first year it came out. For everyone complaining about where motors are made, they should be careful what they wish for. I know I don't want KTM pricing. Especially for something that won't be any more reliable.
 
JonXX said:
I'll make you a hell of a deal on my 93 WXC360. After riding the TE449 last weekend, I don't want to ride it any more. LOL
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I took a 93 WXE 360 to the Black Hills. I liked that bike ALOT!!! Have heard nothing but good things about the 449! I/m sure they are both fun!!
 
Coffee said:
Not at all, these types of discussions will continue for a long time.
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LOL I know the drama will continue and that's what makes it fun!! Case closed simply was referring to the fact the Italians would NOT outsource there engine assembly to the Chinese. That is a fact and for sure................Still case closed in that aspect....
 
Now i know, after cow-trailing last week i thought i was a klutz the way i rode. Wrong on that account; it was the bikes fault. Yup Husky has held me back from a starring role. Damn.:lol:
 
Interesting poll.. we need another one of these in 18-24 months to compare results...

FYI... If I was to vote last year, I would have been "OK, still on the fence" but now that vote has been downgraded.
 
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