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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Curious question...
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robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
x-lite
(based on the fact that mercedes has to sue that chinese manufacturer that called their copy of mercedes' "smart" car "the smart car")
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MotoMarc36
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I'll probably call it a junk rip-off like most Chinese mc's. However an India-produced one may have promise. My guess is they will have to cut corners to keep the price in line with their home market, which will lead to a neat bike that may look like our Husqvarna, but will not run like one. It will be interesting to see where the designs and tooling for the excellent line of current Italian Huskies ends up.....I bet it's not in the trash, though.
Jersey Woods
I live to ride !
Totally agree that if they did build one, it would a chintzy knock off with no ability to perform like the Italian made bikes do. And reliability would be another issue. As an example of reliability. If anyone ever had the misfortune of buying a Chinese knock off generator during Super Storm Sandy and the aftermath, they maybe able relate to a poor performing units that are out there. I'm just saying..
ray_ray
Mini-Sponsor
I don't see a reason for a cheap china bike to be a Husky ... One of the very main parts of the business model of the cloned bikes I see here is parts ... The needed parts off the hondas or what ever are available when needed and fit the copied bikes here... Don't really see a guy who buys a low-costing cloned china bike wanting to pay premium prices for parts that fit a Husky ..
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As far as the Indian versions of the Husky bikes, that apparently is the case of the technology being licensed out to another company to manufacture and sell ... And, as quick as ktm got one of their engines in the Indian built bike, business there must be good ...