• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 is back

Problem is in the US and I dont care what anyone says is Win on Sunday or Saturday now sell on Monday.... No race team you might as well save your money.... It dont matter that something like 95% of bikes sold get raced people still want what wins.... PERIOD and thats winning in the US a World GP or WEC Championship dont mean squat and Husky was a prime example of that for years....
 
Pick a big progressive partner in the USA, Polaris, and then they will have something. Polaris needs a dirt bike in their lineup and a dual sport. Licensing, branding, certification, marketing and racing would be effective, races would be won. Shineray might find some synergies.
 
racemx904 said:
Problem is in the US and I dont care what anyone says is Win on Sunday or Saturday now sell on Monday.... No race team you might as well save your money.... It dont matter that something like 95% of bikes sold get raced people still want what wins.... PERIOD and thats winning in the US a World GP or WEC Championship dont mean squat and Husky was a prime example of that for years....
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You seem so certain that's the only path to success.

Care to explain how KTM has dominated the trail bike market in the US for more than a decade despite not winning their first supercross race in the US until 2012 and not winning their first supercross championship in the big boy class until 2015? :p
 
Auto5guy said:
You seem so certain that's the only path to success.

Care to explain how KTM has dominated the trail bike market in the US for more than a decade despite not winning their first supercross race in the US until 2012 and not winning their first supercross championship in the big boy class until 2015? :p
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Kurt Caselli, David Knight, Juha Salminen, Shane Watts, Charlie Mullins, Scott Plessinger, Kalib Russell come to mind...
 
Auto5guy said:
You seem so certain that's the only path to success.

Care to explain how KTM has dominated the trail bike market in the US for more than a decade despite not winning their first supercross race in the US until 2012 and not winning their first supercross championship in the big boy class until 2015? :p
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Actually Grant Langston won KTM's first SX race in 2001, but off course it was in the 125 class...
 
rancher1 said:
Ben Van Erp did husky for a long time in the Netherlands and was very knowledgeable on the bikes even building some custom race parts for the factory teams.
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But he wasn't the official importer since the Cagiva takeover right? MotoMondo has been for the last decade or so. Van Erp only did grey imports.
 
racemx904 said:
Problem is in the US and I dont care what anyone says is Win on Sunday or Saturday now sell on Monday.... No race team you might as well save your money.... It dont matter that something like 95% of bikes sold get raced people still want what wins.... PERIOD and thats winning in the US a World GP or WEC Championship dont mean squat and Husky was a prime example of that for years....
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This is actually not true anymore (especially in road raced). 90% of the bikes are sold to people who ride casual. Only the remaining 10% are competition drivers.
 
Erik Italhusky said:
This is actually not true anymore (especially in road raced). 90% of the bikes are sold to people who ride casual. Only the remaining 10% are competition drivers.
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Ya, I've seen it written several times that the old adage of win on Sunday, sell on Monday is not true very often. Obviously KTM is proving it to be correct at the moment, but Kawi, Honda and Suzuki all had sales dips when Carmichael was winning on whatever brand.
 
Colo moto said:
Ya, I've seen it written several times that the old adage of win on Sunday, sell on Monday is not true very often. Obviously KTM is proving it to be correct at the moment, but Kawi, Honda and Suzuki all had sales dips when Carmichael was winning on whatever brand.
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Currently it is cheap on Sunday, sell on Monday. :P
 
Erik Italhusky said:
But he wasn't the official importer since the Cagiva takeover right? MotoMondo has been for the last decade or so. Van Erp only did grey imports.
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No, he was the long tome importer until BMW took over and decided to change things and reinvent the wheel which was already round. They did the same thing here in the US and also took 2 steps back on it as well.
 
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