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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I look forward to SWM getting going and doing business... and that they will start off with the Italian Husky designs and going from there gives me that warm, fuzzy familiar feeling. If they can manage to stay in business, I can see 5 years from now the brand morphing into something of it's own making. No problem with me. For all the grief and issues that existed with the Italian Husky factory, bikes, people, etc... at least it was a distinct brand with their own flavor of doing things. I love the fact that I can work on my CR125 with nothing more than a butter knife and paperclip. SWM doesn't have to make the best bikes out there (though that would be nice), they just have to make bikes that appeal to the enthusiasm and passion of the people who choose to buy them. That is something I just haven't been able to do looking at the white Husky's. My brain says those KTM derivatives are good bikes, but my heart doesn't find anything to skip a beat over.

As such, I have set aside the guest room in my home for Erik Italhusky to start the US distributorship. Rent is free, food is included (ramen noodles and iced tea), and all that for a 10% discount on my first SWM purchase. In my expert opinion, that is an awesome way to run a business!
 
edmoto said:
As such, I have set aside the guest room in my home for Erik Italhusky to start the US distributorship. Rent is free, food is included (ramen noodles and iced tea), and all that for a 10% discount on my first SWM purchase. In my expert opinion, that is an awesome way to run a business!
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This is probably the best job offer I ever received in my life. :P Time to fill in some immigration papers haha!

Erik
Italhusky.com
 
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I am surprised they didn't give the SWM logo a bit of a refreshing. I understand the desire to keep a link to the brand's past, but the visual language of the bikes and the logo are from totally different universes. IMHO. Just sayin.
 
JonDirt said:
I am surprised they didn't give the SWM logo a bit of a refreshing. I understand the desire to keep a link to the brand's past, but the visual language of the bikes and the logo are from totally different universes. IMHO. Just sayin.
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Believe me, you get used to it. :P

And I prefer this:

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Over this:

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Bit of Husky red. :)

Erik
Italhusky.com
 
Johnrg said:
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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I would say add a SWM section just like the Austrian section maybe with a couple of sub sections.
 
Norman Foley said:
Odd that they call it the "Bialbero"? That was the internal family name of the older twin cam engine. "Piccolo" was the internal name for X Lite engines.
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In Italian, "bialbero"="double camshaft" and "piccolo"="small".
BTW, there is something I have to confess... I haven't understood yet which engines are "X Lite"... :confused:
 
It looks like SWM is going to have the best off road bikes on the planet. The bullet proof big bores, A 340cc x-lite, the secret Husqvarna 2t. I think SWM is going to hit the nail on the head and surprise us all, especially the Austrians. :cheers:
 
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