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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

BMW boss interview in Cycle News, Husky Scooters

You get on a bike, any bike with an engine, get the wind in UR hair, pull up to the front of place of business, park 10' from the front door and walk in .. Its good time ..
 
I know from personal experience, driving on 2 wheels in Europe in much safer than the US. Scooters and motorcycles are very prevalent in traffic; motorists are used to this and treat 2 wheeled vehicles the same as any other vehicle. Not the same in the U.S., where gas is still relatively cheap. We also have a lot bigger chunk of continuous real estate than most of Europe, which affects transportation considerations proportionally in many ways. I wish we could get public transportation as tight as Germany across our continent.
 
I wish we could have lane sharing like the rest of the world...

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Muddy Waters said:
I wish we could have lane sharing like the rest of the world...

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Wish lane splitting was legal here. Did it once last summer in Virginia, during a record heat wave. My buddy from Cali took the lead
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what a blessing it was during a 1 MPH bumper to bumper traffic jam.
 
We do lane sharing here ... We pass on the right.. we drive in the gutter and sidewalks if necessary .. We drive over the center line ... we force each other off the road... we pass in curves ... Its not nearly as dangerous as it sounds but U gotta keep UR eyes forward

It all works for 3 reasons: 1) All drivers here have a good attitude and ~driving skills. Zero, zero road rage, 99.99% are courteous drivers ... Read this again ... courteous drivers, good attitude, zero road rage .. 2) low speeds (20-40 MPH and slower many times)...3) respect for bikers and all other people on the roads even if tey are on a water buffalo ...

It could work in america to some degree but attitudes would need to change big-time ... It requires much much responsibility .. You no longer have a lane, you have a line and that is cool for a biker ... But U cannot change lines within UR lane with out checking who is there ... U really want that?

Here is another thing these guys do ... they blow their horn to let you know they are coming ... Not as a way to belligerent, it is a warning saying here I come, don't move ..,. U hear a horn behind you ? Hold UR line, someone is making a move ...

On second thought, the usa, at least where I'm from, cannot deal with sharing lanes ... Bad attitude and low driving skills will be hard to overcome .. What america should allow is passing \ riding on the shoulder of the road by bikers when in traffic jams .. maybe the states could handle a biker driving between cars also at a red light or in a traffic jam ... maybe

Also, there is not a lawsuit waiting at every turn as is the case in the states ... Being civilized is a high price ... Freedoms are lost first and the suits tell the masses what to do ... Common sense no longer applies ...
 
It's fairly obvious that the american market \ dirt bikes are on the back burner currently with Husky \ bmw ... Maybe the street bikes will be marketed from the bmw showrooms and they'll make a much bigger push on them than the dirt bikes ... Even this way, the Husqvarna name will get more advertising time and the name will eventually loop back to dirt bikes even if the bmw dealers do not sell dirt bikes ... They can just have a pic on the wall or the salesperson should say : "Yes, husqvarna sells dirt bikes also " ...

These are the the words we wanna hear coming out of a meeting ... 'budget review' being key ...
 

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My .02 are

there should not be a M1 endorsement for your drivers licence . everyone who wants their driving licence should learn to ride, whether or not want to. If every person with a drivers licence took a MSF course, people would be better drivers.

IF everyone rode, the world would be a happier place to live.
 
It's a bold move. In Europe Husky are known solely for hardcore, slightly odd ball supermoto and dirt bikes, no one thinks "husky-commuter" unless theyre a sado-masochist. But opinions can change, so who knows. We sell scooters mostly to either 16yr olds who want something cheap and flashy or 40yr old middle class accountants who like something reliable and understated. Im not sure who we're going to sell a performance based, no doubt expensive flashy scooter to.

And as far as American driving standards go, I think your all insane for even leaving the house without saying good bye to your loved ones and checking your life insurance policy. It's worse than anywhere ive ever been. I'd never even consider riding a bike on the road there, And certainly not without a bloody helmet?!
 
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On second thought, the usa, at least where I'm from, cannot deal with sharing lanes ... Bad attitude and low driving skills will be hard to overcome .. What america should allow is passing \ riding on the shoulder of the road by bikers when in traffic jams .. maybe the states could handle a biker driving between cars also at a red light or in a traffic jam ... maybe ...
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This is all I did when I lived Melbourne, the bike is great for traffic jam, U love the that look people would give you at the light knowing that its only taken you 2 minutes to get where they are that has taken them 30 minutes
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