• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 - Are you planning to buy a new KTM based husky?

Will you be buying a KTM based husky soon?

  • Total voters
    158
While this is all true I can distinctly remember going to my bank in 1993 and throwing down the Husqvarna brochure and paying around retail for my new WR 250 along wiith the $100 or so a month payment. Most of this goes back to the Italians not planning on a future. Had they have invested in smart marketing skills things may have been different. While KTM sent ringer bikes to the magazines and developed good relationships with borrowed bikes and there check book Husky got beat up on! I remember reading how my 1996 WR 250 Husqvarna was such a slow bike. Ha Ha whatever. Then why would it beat a new aluminum framed Honda CR 250 in second gear roll ons EVERYTIME!! And BOTH bikes were jetted right and had FMF exhaust. Did it feel as fast. Nope. hooked up nice and got her done. Slow. My god with stock gearing and the 6 speed tranny you could say bye to almost any other bike on a fireroad. This little nightmare goes back along ways. Not having Kids bikes available etc.............. I can say I NEVER road a Husky because of the price just simply rode one because in my heart it was the best! And with a bullet proof engine and a slightly long wheelbase was and still are one heck of a bike. Nah I won't get over this a nope while I may test drive one (whats the point? It's orange just not orange) I will not buy one. My god they bought them really to kill them but make more money at the same time. Do a torture test on the 250 two strokes the smallbores or the 4-strokes and I am sorry but the Italian version in my opinion will prevail over and over. OK I'm off to the toilet again.....................................................
 
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