• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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FBF to attempt to try another fine brand?

Looks as though the FBF/TM deal is dead.

The CDN TM Distributor is going to be the North American Distributor.
 
NWRider;47821 said:
I don't know about cali but in the NW smokers sell really well. Go to any KTM dealer and it is obvious that they move out the door much easier then the thumpers. The only time a thumper shows of for a ride is when someone brings a newb. Maybe that will change in the future but I think TM can ramp up the 4t line in time.

I would be interested in a TM 144 if the company can get it's act together for the U.S. market. At least it comes with a big clear tank. I need to know the dealers and parts supply are going to be solid first though.
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CA has restrictions on bikes. Street licensed (like TE's) can ride anywhere anytime. Green sticker OK in most places. Red sticker limited by place and season. This is one reason why thumpers are getting more popular.
 
NumberCruncher;51362 said:
Over the past ten years I have seen four strokes go from being the odd bike out to at least 75% of the bikes on the trails. I haven't smelled two stroke exhaust in a long time. I guess we don't ride the same trails.

NC
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I think the issue is Mark rides mostly the same trails (the burn / trask) with the same guys.
 
ScottyR;47856 said:
If the prices of the 2010 TMs are inline with the competition, I bet you see a lot of former Cagiva era Husky dealers have some TMs in their showrooms real soon.
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As mentioned by someone else, Baker Brothers (BC Canada) is now the importer of TM bikes into the USA. Prices for 2010 bikes are in line with other brands.
 
I cant see Barker Brothers doing anything with the TM brand in NA. They sure havent done anything with them in Canada.
 
ScottyR;57912 said:
I cant see Barker Brothers doing anything with the TM brand in NA. They sure havent done anything with them in Canada.
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Barker is right in my back yard and some of my riding friends are passionate TM riders. Barker has failed to gain their respect and allegiance. I hope it gets better as TM are a nice bike and I like seeing less orange in the woods.
 
Too bad, Ferracci would have been a huge step foward for TM, but with their limited production they probably did not want to sell more bikes so they probably went the right direction for that.
 
I have secretly had a crush on TM bikes for quite a while. They are pure bike porn. I'd buy one if I didn't have kids...always outgrowing what they ride.
 
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