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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2011 tc450???

1kstep

1kstep

Husqvarna
AA Class
Now that BMW owns Husky are they planning on getting rid of their G450X and make Huskys or do they have the two brands keep their souls and have them compete against one another?

Apparently, part of the idea is to put some of the G450X warts (underseat gastank, engine placement, Kymco etc) onto the Husky. :banghead: I'd understand a little more if the G450X was winning a ton of races or customer demand for them really high...but neither of these is the case. Not that the Husky doesn't have warts of it's own: suspension, kickstand, parts availability, plastics, midpipe that burns pants, and other minor design oddities.

As a current, devoted BMW owner, I like the idea that perhaps the purchase of Husky gets BMW back into winning rallys like the Dakar by using the good parts of the Husky. Apparently, however, they've chosen to continue the BuildMotorcyclesWeird tradition and have this weirdness creep into their Husky line. Why not take what you learned from Cagiva and grow that incrementally. Otherwise you run the risk of diluting the Husky brand just as it's gaining momentum. No one wants a G450X, and even less will want one with Husky stickers on it.

http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/52903...to/2011-Husqvarna-TC450-Prototype-Photos.aspx
 
1kstep;99626 said:
Now that BMW owns Husky are they planning on getting rid of their G450X and make Huskys or do they have the two brands keep their souls and have them compete against one another?

Apparently, part of the idea is to put some of the G450X warts (underseat gastank, engine placement, Kymco etc) onto the Husky. :banghead: I'd understand a little more if the G450X was winning a ton of races or customer demand for them really high...but neither of these is the case. Not that the Husky doesn't have warts of it's own: suspension, kickstand, parts availability, plastics, midpipe that burns pants, and other minor design oddities.

As a current, devoted BMW owner, I like the idea that perhaps the purchase of Husky gets BMW back into winning rallys like the Dakar by using the good parts of the Husky. Apparently, however, they've chosen to continue the BuildMotorcyclesWeird tradition and have this weirdness creep into their Husky line. Why not take what you learned from Cagiva and grow that incrementally. Otherwise you run the risk of diluting the Husky brand just as it's gaining momentum. No one wants a G450X, and even less will want one with Husky stickers on it.

http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/52903...to/2011-Husqvarna-TC450-Prototype-Photos.aspx
Click to expand...

Welcome my friend to the great world of Husqvarna :banana:

Ain't this cool ... A bmw guy liking bmw for buying a dirt bike company to help bmw do well in the dirt :)

And you speak the Gospel and many, many of the words that lots of us are worried about ... Thank you aplenty !!! I see great things for you in your biking future ....

That engine you speak of seems like super glue as it is stuck here and put on UR hip waders and hard hat as it gets deep in here on this subject ... Its amazing how well you pegged this company marriage on UR first try ... Are you the dirt bike messiah? :)
 
1kstep;99626 said:
Now that BMW owns Husky are they planning on getting rid of their G450X and make Huskys or do they have the two brands keep their souls and have them compete against one another?

Apparently, part of the idea is to put some of the G450X warts (underseat gastank, engine placement, Kymco etc) onto the Husky. :banghead: I'd understand a little more if the G450X was winning a ton of races or customer demand for them really high...but neither of these is the case. Not that the Husky doesn't have warts of it's own: suspension, kickstand, parts availability, plastics, midpipe that burns pants, and other minor design oddities.

As a current, devoted BMW owner, I like the idea that perhaps the purchase of Husky gets BMW back into winning rallys like the Dakar by using the good parts of the Husky. Apparently, however, they've chosen to continue the BuildMotorcyclesWeird tradition and have this weirdness creep into their Husky line. Why not take what you learned from Cagiva and grow that incrementally. Otherwise you run the risk of diluting the Husky brand just as it's gaining momentum. No one wants a G450X, and even less will want one with Husky stickers on it.

http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/52903...to/2011-Husqvarna-TC450-Prototype-Photos.aspx
Click to expand...

Here is the thread: http://www.cafehusky.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10279 about 22,000 views :applause:
 
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