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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Holy Husky blow out batman

firecrotch

firecrotch

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Check out these prices. Gawd if I had the room I would get another 300 just because:

You WILL NOT find lower pricing on NEW 0 mile Husqvarnas.

Here is what we have:
2010 TC250 - $3,627.00
2010 TC250 - $3,627.00
2010 TXC250 - $4,812.30
2010 WR250 - $4,239.00
2010 WR300 - $4,139.25

These are well below dealer cost. Prices are plus tax, title and license. No handling or frieght charges.

Call JASON today at 253.961.8371

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/mcd/2567646298.html
 
I called on them a week ago and the 300 was sold before the ad ran. A guy was on his way to Taskeys (I think) to buy a Hindenberg a snatched the 300 instead.
 
Man, don't know what I'd do with a bike that's not street legal around here, but boy do I want one!
 
At those prices ... buy 2 ....

South Sound BMW is in Fife and a bmw dealer the last time I was there..
 
You have got to be kidding they would over 8.5 grand here and the Aussie is equals 1.07 US too.
 
This is a sign that South Sound BMW didnt find a niche selling Husqvarnas and are clearing our their inventory. With Taskeys just to the north and Bills a couple-three hours south, not a big surprise.

I have been known to frequent BMW stores and even owned a few and my take is that there is enough gap in the buyer profile/demographics that someone who is primarily a BMW dealer isnt likely to have strong overlap with the off-road crowd. It is standard behavior for new BMW buyers to pay the dealer $180 to change the oil and do the first service per BMW guidelines and then that owner will use that dealer service as a selling point when they advertise the bike for sale used. The typical dirt rider changes his/her own oil at a frequency that would bankrupt them if they paid $180 per pop, and complains about the $10 oil ..while buying carbon fiber gas caps for $150 :-) . Maybe a different mix of products will bring those market segments closer together, but I think you need dirt bike guys to succeed in the dirt bike business. No doubt there are exceptions to this idea; I know one rural inland Northwest BMW dealer who would probably make a fine Husqvarna dealer ..if they werent already selling Hondas and Kawasakis ....

Husqvarna certainly needs more dealers, but the Seattle area wasnt a particularly weak spot, and we certainly dont need to see the oversaturation that KTM brought to the region .... Oregon is littered with KTM dealers. Yakima, Spokane, Tri-Cities in WA and Bend, Medford, Eugene, maybe Portland/Vancouver in Oregon all strike me as more fertile territory than adding dealers in Tasky's neighborhood. If they wanted presence in the the Tacoma/Olympia area then how about teaming up with Taskys for a second store.. Same goes for Portland, help Bills expand into that market so a dedicated dealer with a proven track record and service reputation is representing the brand. I am sure others can think of similar scenarios in their regions, but the Northwest is what I know and I have been dabbling in the motorcycle game (and business) here for 4 decades. Manufacturers create some strange bedfellows sometimes.
 
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