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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Fantic 2014

What is going on with the rear tire size lately? I see a Husaberg 2014 125 two stroke comes with 140/80/18 and now this one has a big rear tire in the 125 class. Is the rim going back to 2.5 wide?
 
I like the looks of last years bike a lot better. Like kinda looks like a cheap toy to me. Cool bikes though.
 
I know we have mega knowledge here but I think us Americans just are not getting it, all the EU manufacturers share and source items. For one example KTM corp builds radiators they are used all over the EU automotive sector (including on Huskies), KTM is also a chassis manufacturer and engineering firm they build frames, you want a frame designed or have one designed they will build it for you..
Verlicchi made chassis for BMW for Husky for Ducati Aprilia etc. Domino supplies almost all the EU OEMS. So when we see the Fantic...they source G G motors and it looks like even the same chassis less the plate that G G has welded on the ladder section, who made that frame....could be the OEM Fantic or G G or could be any number of manufacturers in Spain or Italy.
Its all a marriage of a bunch of sourced parts. The biggest exception to this ongoing sucessful biz model is TM Racing that make their own clutch slaves, sprockets and other bits that the other manufacturers simply source from other bit manufacturers.
 
Rasputin , no issue to sort that out its just my point about the marriage and sourcing of all these individual parts , so we see alot of commomality among the Eu brands , I see alot of KTM/Berg style cast swingarms on all these bikes now (sherco for exa,ple,
 
Thats where the world is going these days. I always thought GM had a crap plan with their multiple bandges on the same cars but they were on to something.
I remember seeing Domino throttles etc with Moto morini. That cracked me up when I bought the WR and saw my throttle stamped "Domino"
 
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