• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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, wow...

He must speak privately to all of us then I suppose, Gosh, thought it was my secret.
 
Probably from a marketing standpoint the 50cc kids bike and the 250 for smaller stature riders are the big deals. Dealer meeting in July in Ohio and our dealers will know more.
 
Change is hard for some people to swallow. I'm too new in the Husky world to be resistant to the upcoming stuff, I guess. Seems like the general age of Husky owners seems to be a little higher than the mainstream "other" brands. I know there are some open minded peeps out there as well like Kelly, David and so forth that are glad to see fairly drastic changes that should be for the better if the marketing is anywhere close to accurate. I see the same resistance amongst my peers at work with upgrades to our equipment. The older folks don't want it, the kids (22-30 yrs old) can't get it soon enough. Older, for us, is upper 30's to mid 40's generally ;). Husky/BMW really does need to get their stuff straight to be a player in the market if that's what they want to do. EFI that doesn't need constant workarounds, kickstands that are reliable, suspension that doesn't require an immediate valving to flow correctly. This is probably common to a certain extent with any manufacturer's top of the line bike.
 
They need to get going on the wr250/300. I tried a brand new one yesterday and....would never buy one. Engine is Ok in power delivery, but the rest is no where near there 4t line or the wr125.

We have seen the TE/TXC 310 with the x-lite engine...but not the TC.
That would be a good seller in TC trim.
 
Husky is on the move and is producing a lot of different product from last year ie the 150, the 630, 310, 450. The updates on most of these machines was necessary in terms of needing to reduce weight. What is happening though is after an initial indication of what is coming down the pike there is a void for months. This vacuum is disconcerting as many wild assumptions are made. As Ray Ray said Husky need to advertise more. It needs to positively build on the initial info release and create an air of expectation. By regular updates, comment and picture/vid releases many of us would be looking to update our bikes quickly rather than suck and see. This approach would I feel keep new to the brand buyers keen to hold on rather than staying with their old brand.
 
Coffee;104733 said:
I believe part of the vacuum you are referring to is supposed to be taken care of with this:
http://couragenotincluded.com/eng/default.aspx

Keep in mind that there are many importers, not just Husqvarna North America. Things need to be coordinated.[/QUOTE

Dean, you are absoluteley right.

However...I have no clue what that sight really means.....
Are there any phsych folks out there thta can find the "hidden" meaning of it?
Any advertising folks...same question?
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Joe Chod;104825 said:
Dean, you are absolutely right.

However...I have no clue what that sight really means.....
Are there any phsych folks out there thta can find the "hidden" meaning of it?
Any advertising folks...same question?
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If it were my campaign I'd be tempted to change that site periodically. The closer that date (lower the count down) the faster it would change. If they wanted to draw attention to it, which I believe is the point?

I don't understand much in this world Joe. :)
 
Poopy;104268 said:
I just heard from a BMW guy that they are planning to dissolve husky....

:excuseme:
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Well, from another "BMW guy" who happens to work at a BMW/Husky dealer, I haven't heard anything to support that.
 
Dissolving a 100 YO brand name that was just bought, is doing well and tons of $$ and energy behind makes little sense.
 
I'm quite pleased with the 2011 lineup that I've seen so far. The x-lite based 310 looks like it'd be my ideal four stroke (if its offered in TXC trim anyway - I want the 6-speed so a TC version wouldn't do, but I don't want the weight of the street stuff on the TE).

I'd really love to see a fully modernized two stroke option as well. A DI WR150 would suit me just perfectly I think. Only thing I don't really care for about the bike is that crappy mik carb. Heck I didn't even like the crappy mik carb that came on the 1995 WXC250 that started it all for me almost 15 years ago. Think of how light a small bore two stroke could be if the same attention to reducing weight were given as it is on modern four strokes like the x-lite. You'd have to tie rocks to the thing to keep it from floating away :)
 
So when is the global release (avalability) of the 2011 range? I am pretty excited about the new 310-might get me away from the 450/510's. By the way what is happening with the 510? Anyone heard.
 
I *believe* all info will be available before the end of July. There is a 'count down' clock on the Husqvarna site. Although I just checked the USA site and it seems to be down at the moment.
 
ghte;105149 said:
So when is the global release (avalability) of the 2011 range? I am pretty excited about the new 310-might get me away from the 450/510's. By the way what is happening with the 510? Anyone heard.
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The 510 is gone, and a new 511 is coming :)
 
Huh, that motor is great if jetted properly, and I think the suspention is pretty good and re valved works fine, every body seems to re valve the suspention no matter what bike they buy
gestion01;104394 said:
They need to get going on the wr250/300. I tried a brand new one yesterday and....would never buy one. Engine is Ok in power delivery, but the rest is no where near there 4t line or the wr125.

We have seen the TE/TXC 310 with the x-lite engine...but not the TC.
That would be a good seller in TC trim.
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