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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husqvarna Welcome Package

robertaccio

robertaccio

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Just received my Husky welcome package from Husqvarna USA's Jon-Erik B
I am impressed by the level of attention they are promoting with the brand.
 
Just got a book sized box in the mail opened it and its a letter from Husky US pres, with a small book all about the Swede Husky thing history connection etc and a stainless steel Husky keychain .

HIS-Story is always written by the victors........Italian Husky period from 1987 up until the Peirer Ind. take over has been expunged from the New Husky HIS-story books.
The Varese team brought a bunch of world championships to add to the Brands laurels. Its a little weird and somewhat disrespectful....and the "Pasta Bike" comment is flat out uncool.
Anyway I have a new Husky. It has reached back to its Swede roots only in its 1980s color scheme. It is a KTM in Husky clothes even with the Swede teams plastic subframe tech added. And yes it is a great bike with a storied brand name.
 
What??? "Pasta Bike". What a freaking loser company. :rolleyes:

I'd be happy to have more "pasta".

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What flavor was the KoolAid packet that came with yours? Mmmm pasta! So Swedish meatballs, those are good too. And...the food reference for the new Husky?



KTM Husky food.png:banana:
 
When I hear Italian husky my wallet shutters on the money I lost on my '98 & '99 huskys do to poor workmanship. I thought my Italian cousins could do better.
My '99 felt like I was testing a prototype giving ferrachi feedback. The shifter shoe guide was out of whack. On my very first off road ride with the te610e I knew it was a mistake. Enough said.
 
[quote="robertaccio, post:
The Varese team brought a bunch of world championships to add to the Brands laurels. Its a little weird and somewhat disrespectful....and the "Pasta Bike" comment is flat out uncool.[/quote]
I'm really not even sure how to respond to that...
 
LandofMotards said:
[quote="robertaccio, post:
The Varese team brought a bunch of world championships to add to the Brands laurels. Its a little weird and somewhat disrespectful....and the "Pasta Bike" comment is flat out uncool.
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I'm really not even sure how to respond to that...[/quote]


You do know what he's referring to, don't you, with the "Pasta Bike" comment?
 
Don't get me wrong I liked my Italian huskys but they had been released before any tests were done. My te610e was very fast. My 250wr was a red light racer she never lost.
 
It aint free youve paid for it when you bought the bike.
Why do you think they cost so much?
Here in uk you can buy a new dacia for 7k you could just get a new te 300 for that with a fiver spare.
Whats that about?
Mind you i dont know what dacia do in the way of welcome packs.
 
Its not free and they did not have to send it either unless it is specifically written somewhere in the sales deal. It's a welcome package ...Get it? I like the welcome word in most cases. This kind of customer service is important to many ... And we all know down the road a few miles the importance of things can change with a single breakdown.
 
juicypips said:
It aint free youve paid for it when you bought the bike.
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No way, that's preposterous! How could they do that!? ;)

I got a "free" hat at the Sherco demo day a week before visiting the dealer. Definitely the most expensive free hat I've ever been given.

Merry Christmas all
 
robertaccio said:
HIS-Story is always written by the victors........Italian Husky period from 1987 up until the Peirer Ind. take over has been expunged from the New Husky HIS-story books.
The Varese team brought a bunch of world championships to add to the Brands laurels. Its a little weird and somewhat disrespectful....and the "Pasta Bike" comment is flat out uncool.
Anyway I have a new Husky. It has reached back to its Swede roots only in its 1980s color scheme. It is a KTM in Husky clothes even with the Swede teams plastic subframe tech added. And yes it is a great bike with a storied brand name.
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Its not only disrespectful it sticks the finger up at all current husky enthusiasts and says you don't exist, we could care less about you, good luck on parts... by. Seems like a major marketing snafu. Those that are on the fence watching this but loved the Pasta bikes were just turned away at the door with a big FU. Maybe thats the plan, they don't want anything to do with the pasta people. I just got the Husqvarna Journal 2014, zero pix of italian huskys other than my 02 CR250 picture and quote which they ran last time too. I find it really weird they run my bike picture and my full name and it is the only one in the whole mag. Kinda creeps me out but figure it must just be some sort of odd coincidence. They are a great company but have become very big and are acting like comcast. Sure not feeling the love to make the transition from my pasta bikes.
 
We are just going to hash this out.... over and over again. Am I glad we didn't have the internet in 1988.... you bet! I can still talk to people today, that will get palpably angry, over the Cagiva purchase of Husqvarna Motorcycles from Electrolux. In that case, I guess I'll just be prepared to live my life out, listening to discontent from many people about this. Ride your Huskys of all vintages and be merry, when you can!
 
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