• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

All 2st Husaberg 2 stroke

wallybean;89855 said:
TBM is the British magazine "Trail Bike Magazine". I like them, no bs and seem to give all bikes a very even hand in their revues.

Kelly,

At least this rumor is semi-confirmed in print in a respected Euro mag. Here is the quote from the magazine:

"Husaberg are working on two-stroke machines! Although factory sources won't officially confirm this, when pressed on the matter, a spokesman for the Austrian-owned company hinted that their Swedish development department were working on the two-strokes in order to strengthen the Berg range. What's more, they also sudgested that the bikes are likely to come in some unconventional displacements, rather than following the existing enduro capacity class structure.

In order to employ Husaberg's innovative high-crank design-which is likely to result in fantastic handling machines- the bikes would likely need to be fuel injected, something of a Holy Grail of 2T development. But with parent company KTM's two-stroke research we wouldn't be surprised to see it arriving soon...."

Then in a caption under a photoshopped picture is the caption:

"We predict the announcement of a Husaberg TFE230 and TFE370 later on this year..."

This is the first Item featured in their Industry news section.
Walt
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I agree Walt! Great mag! They give the bikes an even hand as you say. That´s why the Husky WR 300 won their test a while ago:applause:!

Johnny
 
My contact told me that Berg does have a 2T prototype ready to go, but KTM is so flat broke right now they dont have the cash to bring it to market.

There will be 2 stroke Husabergs in EU only in 2011 but they will be blue rebadged KTMs.
 
ScottyR;93464 said:
There will be 2 stroke Husabergs in EU only in 2011 but they will be blue rebadged KTMs.
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Why would they do that? Seems like it would just dilute and confuse. :excuseme:
 
ScottyR;93464 said:
My contact told me that Berg does have a 2T prototype ready to go, but KTM is so flat broke right now they dont have the cash to bring it to market.
There will be 2 stroke Husabergs in EU only in 2011 but they will be blue rebadged KTMs.
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Bajaj Auto India is looking to take control of KTM. They presently own 32.5% of KTM shares and there are enough availible shares to get 51% control. Cash strapped Austrians, don't have means to buy shares to stop this at this time. It will be an interesting year.
 
Uh-oh. As much as I love to trash talk KTM, I don't like the sound of a hostile takeover by an Indian company. Unless all they want to do is infuse cash into the development of DI 2 strokes, leaving the engineering and manufacturing in Austria. What are the chances of that?
 
Motosportz;93489 said:
Why would they do that? Seems like it would just dilute and confuse. :excuseme:
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Because there is a lot of stand alone Husaberg dealers in EU and they are begging for more models to sell.

Blue KTMs will not be coming to NA.
 
dfeckel;93524 said:
Uh-oh. As much as I love to trash talk KTM, I don't like the sound of a hostile takeover by an Indian company. Unless all they want to do is infuse cash into the development of DI 2 strokes, leaving the engineering and manufacturing in Austria. What are the chances of that?
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Chances are excellent, but it will change some things fundamentally. Final assembly on some models and engineering would stay in Austria. Not trying to trash talk KTM, but they are not so economically sound that they can ride out this economy without a hiccup.
 
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