endurokids
Husqvarna
AA Class
Anyone else seeing how easy it is to spend 10 grand, but how much harder it is to make? 
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
FE/FC KTM has nearly doubled the price of a Husky
- Thread starter ridemore
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Husqvarna
Fast1
Husqvarna
AA Class
My 08 TE510 was $7K (discounted from $7999). I purchased a 14 FE501 for $8400 (discounted from $10K). These
prices were before state tax and registration.
So over 6 years I only paid $1400 more (20% price increase) for the same type of bike. No complaints from my wallet or grin factor.
Are the new Husky bikes cheap. No, not by any means. Would I ever have been able to afford one at age 16 for racing.. never.
Then again, I paid $800 for my 1974 Elsinore at age 16 and that amount will only get me a few upgrades and some new tires for the 501 in todays purchasing power.
prices were before state tax and registration.
So over 6 years I only paid $1400 more (20% price increase) for the same type of bike. No complaints from my wallet or grin factor.
Are the new Husky bikes cheap. No, not by any means. Would I ever have been able to afford one at age 16 for racing.. never.
Then again, I paid $800 for my 1974 Elsinore at age 16 and that amount will only get me a few upgrades and some new tires for the 501 in todays purchasing power.
flyingbob
Administrator
Same story they told me racing horses...
