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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Fears and bad dreams...

The Old Husky

The Old Husky

Husqvarna
A Class
(disclaimer: this is my opinion, what i think, it does not have to be the "truth" or "scientific" proven)

I never liked it that Husqvarna sold their motorcycle division. Husqvarna was never a mass-brand like Honda or KTM, but they had a bunch of loyal fans. Enough to not sell the motorcycle division.

KTM was, in my point of view, always an arrogant brand. Winning Dakar by literally littering the race with their motorcycles. Probably government supported as rumors goes around at the time. It almost look like they handed them out for free. They could never stand that Husqvarna had the stronger and better engine.

Now KTM owns Husqvarna, and that given them the ultimate chance to steal Husky technology and call it their own. Now they are the best, finally...finally. I fear that KTM will do this as they already pulled production out of Italy. Use this famous brand for experiments and let it die.

I would like Husqvarna back to Italy with Cagiva or Ducati. I my point of view Italians are better in motorcycles and have respect for traditions.

But the best would be if it return back to where it belong: Sweden.

Husqvarna back to Husqvarna.
 
While I agree that it’d be great to see the brand back as an independent motorcycle manufacturer it’ll likely never happen. Also, there is no part of the current Husqvarna that is stolen off the Italian bikes. This will hurt some feelings I’m sure, but the new ones are better than the Italian bikes in almost every way and the parts availability is much more sustainable. Furthermore there’s a reason the name was for sale in the first place. They weren’t making money hand over fist in the hands of the Italians and I see 20 times more Husqvarnas than I did prior. Like It or not Ktm has done a way better job keeping the brand alive. Lastly, there was a time when Ktms were some of the most undesirable bikes around and they turned around. All just opinions but that’s my take. The Italian models were great bikes but the company wasn’t better off that’s for sure.
 
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