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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

25,000th Husqvarna rolls off the production line!

Ex HVUK

Husqvarna
AA Class
Factory press release issued by Federica today:

Friday October 2nd 2009 was an important milestone in the history of Husqvarna Motorcycles: it was the day on which the 25,000th motorcycle was produced in the Biandronno. Northern Italy factory under BMW ownership. The BMW acquisition on 1st October 2007 saw a fresh start for the historic Husqvarna brand and this is another great occasion to celebrate, which comes right after the inauguration of the new Husqvarna Headquarters and R&D Centre opened on September 21st.

During the ceremony, the President of Husqvarna Motorcycles Rainer Thoma declared: "I am very happy, that we can celebrate another nice event just a few days after the inauguration of our new Headquarters and R&D Center. This underlines the dynamics the company is moving to. Despite 2009 being a difficult year for the whole motorcycle market, we look very positively to the future. We now have the best possible circumstances to create and to build new, attractive products at the highest level of quality and performance" .

Giuseppe Manacorda, Husqvarna Plant Manager, also commented enthusiastically the event: “A great result has been achieved today by our factory. We produced the 25,000th motorcycle and engine since Husqvarna has become a BMW’s brand. We are very proud of this achievement. A huge amount of work has been done in these two years, the production lines have been completely revised, we installed a new quality service and the logistics operation is in the reconstruction phase. Although the global economic crisis has deeply affected our business field, the company decided to continue investing energies and capital to be equipped with the most updated production processes, in order to be able to play a leading role among the European motorcycles and engines manufacturers. It is also remarkable the fact that this investment has been made in the Varese area which is traditionally known for the high professional standards of its people.”

After finishing the production process of the 25,000th motorcycle, a 2010 TE 450, all production workers gathered together with president Rainer Thoma and Giuseppe Manacorda, Husqvarna Plant Manager, for a group picture.

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Dave
 
Awesome. :notworthy:

what a cool brand regardless of being passed around. So glad they did not end up like Maico or other once proud brands.
 
I guess I'm just goofy or something. I can appreaciate the 25000th bike. But what I really want is that pc of "Husky Carpet" they parked it on. That would look cooler under my bike when I unload for a race than under that bike.
I want one!
 
Clayfan;52649 said:
I guess I'm just goofy or something. I can appreaciate the 25000th bike. But what I really want is that pc of "Husky Carpet" they parked it on. That would look cooler under my bike when I unload for a race than under that bike.
I want one!

Steve, did you not notice the one I have when you were here a few days ago? :excuseme:
 
Nope,

Too busy looking at the "Wall of Bling" in your shop . Might have to add "Husky Carpet" to the Xmas shopping list.
 
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