RUMOR CONTROL CLOWN BIKE OPTION?? 300 extra????

[Motosportz]

ha ha ha Just like I remember the sound and similar car to what we had.

 

[Motosportz]

Several of us should be banned for going so far OT.

 

[Norman Foley]

Oh i was. This was in high school and a buddy of mine that worked hucking bails with me and I found the saab and two original mimi coopers in a out building on the farm. Asked the owner whats up with them and if we could play with them. He said sure. We got the Saab and one mini running and would rally them around the farm, super fun. There was another old Saab there we got running too. The saab had some crazy linked suspension where the front and back were tied together hydraulically. It actually worked fantastic across rough fields and such. The evenings would often times end up in a rally race around the farm with a mile high cloud of dust and 2 stroke smoke. Fun.

Cool story, but makes me feel old.... When I was in High School, these cars were not exactly new, but still being driven and raced in earnest. They were certainly not considered vintage and put up in barns!

Might have your cars mixed up... Later Mini's had a linked Hydrolastic suspension, but a Saab 96 wouldn't have had it. Sure a Citroen wasn't in the mix?

 

[ray_ray]

this jumped out at me...

"the KTM Group expects an additional growth of approximately 15,000 motorcycles in the next few years"

Husky was selling near that without all the KTM money and advertising. Seems projections of actual added sales would have been 2 or 3 fold.

If my memory is correct, Husqvarna dirt bike sales went down the last yr with bmw (~8,000) and the sales of the streeter model bikes pumped the total bikes sales numbers up...

With that in mind, its almost a 50% jump in sales of this bike brand. The line in black seems to imply total sales numbers and not just 15,000 Huskies. I certainly hope we get to see the sales numbers on the all the orange groups' bikes posted out here.

 

[Motosportz]

Cool story, but makes me feel old.... When I was in High School, these cars were not exactly new, but still being driven and raced in earnest. They were certainly not considered vintage and put up in barns!

Might have your cars mixed up... Later Mini's had a linked Hydrolastic suspension, but a Saab 96 wouldn't have had it. Sure a Citroen wasn't in the mix?

WOW Norm you are right, it was a Citroen. Thanks for the memory jog and how the heck do you know this stuff! He had a pile of cars sitting in a barn. We got several of them running and ralleyed them. When one would stop working because we thrashed it we would work on another one. There was a Corvair pickup in the mix as well. The v8 Ford Mavric was the fastest even though it smoked like a 2 stroke but handled like crap off road.

 

[Motosportz]

If my memory is correct, Husqvarna dirt bike sales went down the last yr with bmw (~8,000) and the sales of the streeter model bikes pumped the total bikes sales numbers up...

With that in mind, its almost a 50% jump in sales of this bike brand. The line in black seems to imply total sales numbers and not just 15,000 Huskies. I certainly hope we get to see the sales numbers on the all the orange groups' bikes posted out here.

I think at times they also sold way more than 15k (06-08) so as an average it seems about the same amount. Just surprised there projections are not many times more. But as they are now Bergs and not another line it just adds to a currently delivered bike anyways.

 

[MotoMarc36]

Alright the car beatdown stories have me cracking up. Ahhhhh! MEMORIES! That Saab vid sounds like it's hauling ass.........and then it comes into view****************************************

This OT is.....just fine. The Clown has left the track!

 

[Norman Foley]

WOW Norm you are right, it was a Citroen. Thanks for the memory jog and how the heck do you know this stuff! He had a pile of cars sitting in a barn. We got several of them running and ralleyed them. When one would stop working because we thrashed it we would work on another one. There was a Corvair pickup in the mix as well. The v8 Ford Mavric was the fastest even though it smoked like a 2 stroke but handled like crap off road.

Grew up in a family of motorheads, who happened to like foreign cars and we hung around all the other Euro motorheads in the SCCA. My dad would get frustrated with a Fiat or Hillman or Renault and buy an American car. In a short while the big American car was gone and replaced by something odd again. For a year we had two Comet Cyclone Muscle cars, but they were replaced with a VW Bug and a Fiat 850! Then my mom replaced the VW Bug, with a Subaru 360, as she always wanted an Isetta, but dad thought they were unsafe. I really learned to drive on the 2 stroke Subaru, but lucky for me, when I got my license dad had a BMW 2002, that he upgraded to Euro Ti spec. Very fast and no one knew what it was, great fun!

I was born premature, because my mom, brother and sister, were pushing my mom's 27 HP Morris Minor up the steepest hill around, while my Grandma drove it! Mom went into labor on the spot, but didn't deliver for hours. I always heard about that growing up! Years later I told an English friend the story and he told me they had one too and his dad went up all the steep grades in reverse, because it was the lowest gear!

I put my energy into bikes now, because it's easier than cars!

 

[ray_ray]

I think at times they also sold way more than 15k (06-08) so as an average it seems about the same amount. Just surprised there projections are not many times more. But as they are now Bergs and not another line it just adds to a currently delivered bike anyways.

That's a little interesting ... Pre-bmw sales number were higher? ~Everyone here says Husky was dead and bwn saved the brand? Bwm didn't save jack and drove dirt bike sales down with their name-value as a streeter bike company.

Not sure on the bergs but those guys might buy another bike ... Don't count the chickens before they hatch, OK?

 

[Motosportz]

I think husky sold a lot of bikes int he 06-08 years but might be wrong.

 

[Norman Foley]

I think husky sold a lot of bikes int he 06-08 years but might be wrong.

Pretty sure Husky's top US years in the Cagiva Age, were '92-'93. The street legal bikes did increase sales, but not back to those levels.

 

[Coffee]

OK so it's not April yet but what is this with the clown bike option?????? ..

Don't know fletch, but what you want to talk about is much better suited for elsewhere on the internet.