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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

SWM 650 -> The 630 returns!

edmoto said:
Could someone clarify something for me? Does SWM have all the tech, designs, and people from the Italian Husky era? Exception being the 250cc, 310cc, 450cc four stroke designs that were sold to Gas Gas? Does that sound right? Or in other words, SWM has the 2 stroke designs (the old 125, 250, 300 smokers and the hinted above new designs) as well as the big bore 4 strokes (500 and 630 version bikes). This is very interesting. I have been an Italian Husky refugee since KTM took over Husqvarna. Even bought me a Gas Gas 300 in the meantime. But now GG is in turmoil, and the white Husky's are still rebadged Katooms (as far as I am concerned), so I've been looking for a brand to develop a fancy with, and SWM is looking to be it.
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I think you almost have the split of tech right except the 450, I think gas gas just got the xlite 250/310.
 
edmoto said:
Could someone clarify something for me? Does SWM have all the tech, designs, and people from the Italian Husky era? Exception being the 250cc, 310cc, 450cc four stroke designs that were sold to Gas Gas? Does that sound right? Or in other words, SWM has the 2 stroke designs (the old 125, 250, 300 smokers and the hinted above new designs) as well as the big bore 4 strokes (500 and 630 version bikes). This is very interesting. I have been an Italian Husky refugee since KTM took over Husqvarna. Even bought me a Gas Gas 300 in the meantime. But now GG is in turmoil, and the white Husky's are still rebadged Katooms (as far as I am concerned), so I've been looking for a brand to develop a fancy with, and SWM is looking to be it.
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Tech, factory, design, staff (only the best, not all), 2 stroke, all older 4 stroke, x-lite, concepts and experiments, etc.

Erik
Italhusky.com
 
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It's like marriage.... Names change but bloodlines do not. The Italian Huskies have direct bloodline connectivity. When it comes to DNA I'll leave it up to the doctors but I bet they cut a mm away and find stickers and bodywork cover up different ancestry.
 
Johnrg said:
It's like marriage.... Names change but bloodlines do not. The Italian Huskies have direct bloodline connectivity. When it comes to DNA I'll leave it up to the doctors but I bet they cut a mm away and find stickers and bodywork cover up different ancestry.
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Did you just come up with a motorcycle DNA test? :P

Erik
Italhusky.com
 
Motosportz said:
New forum segment entirely IMHO.
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Probably. Though it does lead to splintering. There will be three separate 4st, three separate 2st, and three separate 600+ groups. I already find myself checking both TR650 and 610/630 forums, since I'm mostly interested in big singles. There's not that much traffic in either group. I could imagine a shared "600+" forum could be quite lively.
 
JonDirt said:
Probably. Though it does lead to splintering. There will be three separate 4st, three separate 2st, and three separate 600+ groups. I already find myself checking both TR650 and 610/630 forums, since I'm mostly interested in big singles. There's not that much traffic in either group. I could imagine a shared "600+" forum could be quite lively.
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Next question: eventually SWM will develops bikes completely on their own. With less and less Husky DNA. Will those still be featured because of the brand roots?
 
Erik Italhusky said:
Next question: eventually SWM will develops bikes completely on their own. With less and less Husky DNA. Will those still be featured because of the brand roots?
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At that point they would be considered cousins. Maybe would need to be cast away at that point since the legacy is no longer tied to or related to Husqvarna design or tech. If that tech. is brought forward then the DNA stays intact. If it is severed like KTM Husqvarna but was part of a corporate structure it would be different but nothing is changing that so it would need to be severed, unless the cousins part of this site is used for growth and sponsor support in that area. Just my thoughts.... As few sites exist with the depth of Cafe Husky. To have the enthusiast base here and not so splintered is a good thing. Makes the brand strong but maybe not in the eyes of each company per se, but is in the eye of the riders, buyers, enthusiasts, and aftermarket and shop sponsors who are not happy with the structure of other websites.
 
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