• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

  • 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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125-200cc Australia 2010 wr125 costs $10295

topari;97504 said:
As much as I like this bike, I think we in Australia are just paying way too much for simple dirt bikes. The wr125 is not a big seller. Probably only a few have been sold in Australia. What do the USA guys think about a AUS $10,000 price tag ... probably equivalent to about USA $8500 at 85cent exchange rate.

I should just buy direct from the USA. Only problem is I cannot road register the bike.
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Is the price competitive with a comparable KTM? This the the Big Macs to Whoppers comparison. I cant imagine that Husky is going to price themselves out of the market and most places a KTM is the most comparable brand. HondaSuzyKawiYamas are cheaper than Husky's in the US too, but they are marketed a bit differently.
 
Just for reference a 2010 WR125 costs the equivalent of AUS $8864 here in the U.K. (that's US $7376).

Coffee makes an excellent point about bringing an Aussie dealer or two into Cafe Husky btw.
 
I see Australian dealers as part of the problem. if they need to be encouraged to use the internet, then why bother.
 
This is the latest campaign by Husky Australia
http://www.husqvarnamotorcycles.com.au/images/model/2010/huskybob_big.jpg

Topari is correct, there isn't much awareness of Husky dealers or bike shops that support husqvarna's and this has to be blamed at the feet of Paul Feeney group who are the distributors of Husqvarna.

The reality is, KTM are a large force in Australia due to that company's stability and growth whilst Husqvarna has changed hands more than shares at the stock market. If the marriage of BMW and Husqvarna last, and Australian dealers don't try and market this brand as some boutique dirtbike like a VOR, then Husqvarna dirtbikes will grow.
But, so long as Chad Reed rides a Jap bikes and majority of Australian Enduro champs are on KTM's, it will be slow until it receives greater exposure in our dirt mags.
 
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