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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Canadian Husky Distributor Announced

Well, I wonder what the standard criteria for a Husky Dealer are? I guess we will know in a couple of days.
 
A line of credit that allows dealers to stock 20+ bikes at a time. It is an open bank account that the distributor and the dealer share to pay for parts and bikes.
 
apothcariesweight;71309 said:
I'm in Alberta with no news whats so ever on any potential for a husky for me, does any one have any insight??
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We've had 2 dealers in Alberta for a while, Echo Cycle in Edmonton and Outback MotoXtreme in Taber. I haven't heard if there are any additions or deletions for Alberta dealers.

It has really baffled me why no dealers in Calgary have picked up the Husky brand, Calgary has a huge off-road market that Husaberg has gained a large portion of in recent years.
 
Considering they only been the Dist "officially" for less than a month and have been working around the clock to get the bikes homologated for street use, I am not going to bust their balls about their website just yet.
 
silver_fox;71327 said:
We've had 2 dealers in Alberta for a while, Echo Cycle in Edmonton and Outback MotoXtreme in Taber. I haven't heard if there are any additions or deletions for Alberta dealers.

It has really baffled me why no dealers in Calgary have picked up the Husky brand, Calgary has a huge off-road market that Husaberg has gained a large portion of in recent years.
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Thanks for the reply..I have talked to both of those dealers, Outback was a real pleasure to talk to and the lady was really helpful except that she said she would probably not be getting any 010's this year as she had not heard anything yet, She suggested importing from Ross Rocher Sales, which I would be interested in, but then the question of warranty, repair and service work comes up. Echo just tries to sell me there left over 07 and 08's and mentioned that mabey they would get 10's but no word yet. Whats an unlucky Albertan to do? :excuseme:
 
apothcariesweight;71459 said:
Whats an unlucky Albertan to do? :excuseme:
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Give Scott a call and he'll have a shinny new bike in your garage in no time! I think I'm on #4 from Scott, after the first deal went so smooth, I haven't looked back! Warranty, who cares, the things don't break, I've tried! And if you get a Friday afternoon bike that happens to need some TLC, I'm sure Scott will make it right however he can.

There are a growing number of us here in AB so if your in a pinch there are lots of good folks willing to help each other out.

I'm in Calgary and would be happy to talk you through the process if you want, shoot me a PM and we can chat.
 
Talked to Barret today there not deciding anything until the 30th ?

I hope PacYam doesn't get it. They haven't earned it at all.

After getting screwed around by Husky for the last 2 years and holding out swearing up and down the bikes are the best with no factory support at all or parts. It would be nice to get back on board with a competent distributor. We have been selling them since 2004 and build the product up as best we could in Vancouver. But with funding for advertising , rider support packages, club support deals that you get drom distributors or sales would double.

Lets see what happens.
 
5thgear;71609 said:
I hope PacYam doesn't get it. They haven't earned it at all.
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I couldn't care less about earning a Husky dealership or not, but Pac Yam is just a horrible shop to begin with. If you call there with a question about a particular used bike you get different answers from different people. Hell, one time I mentioned the conflicting info & listened to one salesman tell me the other doesn't know what he's talking about, & that I should come down right now & he'll give me a great deal but only that day. Seriously, it's like used car sales circa 1977 over there.
 
6Ten;71910 said:
I couldn't care less about earning a Husky dealership or not, but Pac Yam is just a horrible shop to begin with. If you call there with a question about a particular used bike you get different answers from different people. Hell, one time I mentioned the conflicting info & listened to one salesman tell me the other doesn't know what he's talking about, & that I should come down right now & he'll give me a great deal but only that day. Seriously, it's like used car sales circa 1977 over there.
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I think we went over bashing dealers that arent even dealers yet earlier in this thread. Uncalled for on this site.
 
Poopy;71917 said:
I think we went over bashing dealers that aren't even dealers yet earlier in this thread. Uncalled for on this site.
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Thank you, Poopy, Pretty cool our members help set things straight.:thumbsup:
 
jaro51;71548 said:
Give Scott a call and he'll have a shinny new bike in your garage in no time! I think I'm on #4 from Scott, after the first deal went so smooth, I haven't looked back! Warranty, who cares, the things don't break, I've tried! And if you get a Friday afternoon bike that happens to need some TLC, I'm sure Scott will make it right however he can.

There are a growing number of us here in AB so if your in a pinch there are lots of good folks willing to help each other out.

I'm in Calgary and would be happy to talk you through the process if you want, shoot me a PM and we can chat.
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Thanks for the heads up! I'm in Drumheller so not that far away, you guys with husky's should come down to the valley to play for a day if ya never have, lots of nice hill climbs in the badlands... Probably ready in a month and a half or so to purchase, will look into matter around that time. Hopefully there is a dealer for Calgary this year:thumbsup:
 
North;71996 said:
I do think that it is safe to say that no-one has done more to bring awareness to the Husky brand in the Lower Mainland (Vancouver) and surrounding area than Bill / 5thGear.:thumbsup:

If not for his work, I don't think you would see any Husky in the Lower part of British Columbia. I know that I would not have one.
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True that. Bill is a great ambassador for 2 wheels in general. He's tirelessly promoted Husky's for a few years now, stepped up to help out and sponsor when numerous big dealers do nothing for the community -on road, off road, stunting, newbie rides, you name it) If all dealerships took Bill's stand it would be a better world.
 
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