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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husky dropping parts support for recent non currents

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Lack of Parts support

Corporate mind set crosses all division of any larger company. If you think the rumored lack of support by BMW for our beloved single cams is bad, it pales into insignificance compared to BMW's washing their bloody corporate hands of the dangerous steering pump failures and catastrophic CVT Transmission failures in the Mini Coopers.
I have worked for two different companies that were aquired by bright people with excel spreadsheets that prooved how very correct their way of thinking was. The very first thing these price pigs utter is the very reassuring words " nothing will change, we bought your company beause of what it is, why would we ever change the very esscence of it?"
Nothing remains the same, life is about change; and in the end it boils down to leadership; does the leadership at the new Husky have the stones to stand up and be counted on to support their customers. It is indeed all about the people who own these fabulous bikes.
Rant over.
 
ask me how much I love my high pressure fuel pump in my 135i

bmw knows they are crap, all they have done is extend the warranty out to 100k miles
 
I read this thread and learned that ATK acquired VOR. I will add that the stuff on the drawing board and the patents owned can be a prime consideration in these mergers or buy outs. On the motorcycle side I might point to Husaberg and ktm, aren't those 950+ twins real similar to what Husaberg in development? I remember trying to figure out facts pertaining to the Proton ownership or majority ownership deal and found discussion about what BMW got out of the Rover deal which apparently all they kept alive was the mini cooper. Most would say it was a bad deal.

As for this age bracket I bought a 1999 te 410 but have modified it to fit the water cooled 85-88 two stroke engine hence just wandered here with no particular expectation of needing parts for these. We got a denial of dropping the availability of parts however we didn't get too much. It would kind of be nice if we got a statement about what the intention was as to parts availability back to some year 68, 76, 88 whatever. As for the new stuff What I read about the total number of employees I have trouble believing The manufacturer really can control the viability of their sources. Heck here in the United States they passed laws about parts for automobiles needing parts availability for eight years and the government itself seems to own a majority state in Chrysler it seems there are some problematic motor mounts no longer available because that supplier company went under.

Unfortunately a lot of what I typed I can't source with footnotes. For amusement you could go to bikebandit.com and pick a bmw model and see what is no longer available for it. I have a 1993 Yamaha GTS and have done that for amusement.

Fran
 
I believe the original issue has been addressed, there has been no change in getting parts for bikes. And this thread has become a magnet for conspiracy theories and rants about managing companies in general, which is not which is not one of the reasons this forum was created.

I'll close this and if any new information becomes available I'll be sure to let you know.
 
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