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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Just some daydreaming...

Erik Italhusky

Erik Italhusky

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi guys,

I work for a dealership that focusses solely on Italian motorcycles. The pre-KTM Husqvarna included. Today I was daydreaming about one of our other brands: MV Agusta.
MV Agusta has been rapidly growing for the last 3 years. Both in models and sales numbers.
However the other Castiglioni brand, Cagiva, has been sleeping for a few years. Some people think that they will restart the brand in a few years to specialize in cheap motorcycles. However I expect a different approach:
Cheap Cagiva's will compete with more expensive MV's in one way or another. So Cagiva can only produce bikes that are no threat to MV. MV currently keeps increasing the amount of models in their range. They want to enter all segments. However I believe there is one segment they cannot breach because they have no brand history in the segment (which is a key for succes and the reason Pierer bought Husqvarna). I would love to see a renewed Cagiva with a focus on offroad motorcycles. They have the knowledge (pre-BMW Husqvarna) and the history (Dakar). What do you guys think?
 
id love it love it love it:thumbsup: may one model along the lines of a 2t AJP and a affordable freeride/xride type bike
 
I Don't see them making a come back , they weren't very popular even back in the day (80's). There Dakar wins where on a V Twin version of street bike motor, nothing like the MX bikes were.

MV Augusta makes very good street bikes, cause they race them & they put in the development time.
 
they have two 125 MXGP titles 1984 &85:applause: i think that's where the cash to buy Husky & Ducati came from Pekkas wins sold alota bikes you know what they say in F1 if you want to win hire a fin and that's what they did:thumbsup:
 
Not to be confused with daydreaming, but once, I dreamed about working in the high-tech corridor of Seattle, WA area and good or bad, it happened. I dwell in reality really and after seeing all the crying over bmw trying to get into the dirt bike business and build a supply network and now a second small company toted to the high heavens here is actually belly-up, I gotta say it ain't easy being a ~stand-alone bike company. Capitalism is gonna eat them up. That's the way it goes apparently.

Maybe going with a company that has a BIL++ population is about the only way I can see a company growing upwards without gigantic risks to your money ... Even in this case, it may not be so easy to dazzle these other-than-the-western-hemisphere-companies for backing. (SP says the Indians are sticking with their local brands and not interested in what he is selling)

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My history does not cover all the time I'm talking about here and I could easily be wrong and way-off base, but when the smaller bike companies were excluded from racing in the states on the big stage a couple decades ago, all that advertising time was lost ... No name brand value was ever generated for the small guys since the early 80s?.
 
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