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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Is Husky heritage still alive?

jellyrug

jellyrug

Husqvarna
AA Class
Have not been here in a while, but did a service on my TE610ie yesterday for the first time in four years. Amazing how we forget how things go together on the bike if we have not done it in a while. Honestly, I still don't see a good replacement for this bike out there.

Here are the questions:

1.) Is the old Italian Husky still alive with devoted fans keeping them going, or are they disappearing from memory?
2.) How many have switched to KTM, with the only Husky part remaining being the lipstick?
3.) How many are considering a real Husky (kind of) wearing SWM lipstick?
 
I think the older Italian Husky's will always have a following.

Even if you can't see them wearing the lipstick.

I mean, why would anyone want to see it go away ?

With that thought in mind.

There will always be some diehard followers. Trust me.

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What we need is a light weight 750/800 cc (non parallel) twin with only 2 maps being road and enduro. Bike needs min 85hp and capable of running effortlessly at 120km's all day. Fuel range standard a min. of 400km and all in weight of 180k's fuelled. I rule out the GS800 as it is dated, heavy and underpowered.
It should come standard with racks, bash plate and proper hand guards and proper 50/50 tyres, Heated grips and a centre stand, wide pegs and electric output.
The choice now is either big crazy singles with no range and plastic sub frames. Or behemouths of 220K's plus fuelled. I ask, is this too hard to manufacture in todays techo age?
 
jellyrug said:
Have not been here in a while, but did a service on my TE610ie yesterday for the first time in four years. Amazing how we forget how things go together on the bike if we have not done it in a while. Honestly, I still don't see a good replacement for this bike out there.

Here are the questions:

1.) Is the old Italian Husky still alive with devoted fans keeping them going, or are they disappearing from memory?
2.) How many have switched to KTM, with the only Husky part remaining being the lipstick?
3.) How many are considering a real Husky (kind of) wearing SWM lipstick?
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considering that there are plenty of us running the real swedish huskies, id say the heritage still lives a bit..
 
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