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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

New UK Distributor

Ex HVUK

Ex HVUK

Husqvarna
AA Class
As this news has been released by Husqvarna Italy now, I can provide you with the Husqvarna press release concerning the change of distributor in the UK:


HUSQVARNA DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE UK MARKET

We have the pleasure to inform you that starting from the 1st September 2010, Husqvarna Motorcycles distribution in the UK will be managed by the newly established company HVUK Ltd. based close to London.

We strongly believe that the UK market can play a very important role in the overall Husqvarna business and therefore we have taken the decision to be present directly.

HVUK Ltd. will be managed by Massimo Granata, who has an important background in the UK motorcycle industry: he will have the task to introduce from September onwards the new Husqvarna MY11 Cross and Enduro range, including the awaited TC 449 and TE 449/511.

One of the main targets of this new business structure is to deliver the best service as possible to dealers and therefore to final customers: both, bikes and spare parts will be shipped directly from the Factory to dealers to reduce lead time and to increase customer satisfaction. The current dealer network will be improved and expanded during the next months.

We would like to thank Mike Carter and the team at Husky Sport for the work done to support Husqvarna brand over the last years.

More details about HVUK staff, structure and contacts will follow shortly.


Best regards
Husqvarna Motorcycles Srl


Husky Sport will remain within the Husqvarna network as a retail dealer.


Dave
 
It is unclear to me how any change away from Husky Sport as the distributor could be an improvement, but I will have to wait and see what happens like everyone else.


Husky Sport;114206 said:
Husky Sport will remain within the Husqvarna network as a retail dealer.
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This part sounds good. :)
 
Hello Dave, the new Husky distributor will have it's work cut out matching the excellent parts service that I have received from you guys.
 
7point62;115357 said:
Hello Dave, the new Husky distributor will have it's work cut out matching the excellent parts service that I have received from you guys.
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Thanks, although the new distributor will only be acting as representatives of the factory rather than dealing direct so you'll still be able to use Husky Sport or any other dealer for parts.

The biggest change will be the dealers ordering parts direct from the factory rather than via us, which should mean dealers carry more stock and the service for non stock items will be faster.

Dave
 
Husky Sport;115371 said:
Thanks, although the new distributor will only be acting as representatives of the factory rather than dealing direct so you'll still be able to use Husky Sport or any other dealer for parts.
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Ah, you just answered my next question. :)
 
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