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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

No 2012 630?

BATES

BATES

Husqvarna
A Class
I dont have concrete proof, but there is a new 650 on its way from Husky. Trust me, I have my sources.
 
The suspense is killing me. I hope husky knocks this one out of the park as this class is ripe for the pickin.
 
I thought the 630 already was knocked out of the park. Guess a new HEAVY weight champion could appeal to a few that don't get dirty.
 
It's gonna be the best bike in the world?! I trust you. :lol:

Hopefully they release it before the end of the world...........because that would be ashame.
 
The 630 is still listed in the 2011/12 European sales literature AND on the Husky German web site. Where do all these rumours come from ... KTM?
 
That new bike may well spend a year in theEurope before heading stateside. I think Husky has nothing 600-650cc here for '12
 
We were looking to up our stock levels here in the Uk but were "advised" to wait a few months...so it looks VERY likely a replacement is imminent - expect bmwg650 powerplant, possibly breathed on. cant see it being a patch on the twin cam though...
 
I rode a sm 630 yesterday,sweet bike.just plain odd that 630s did not sell better than they did in most markets until the price was chopped down to used bike levels.I am under the understanding that the 650 that will replace the 630 will not be super high end.they are trying to compete with bikes that sell for less than the 630 did, and yeild sales #s in much higher volume than they felt the 630 ever could .630 production is done folks unless some thing changes, which is always possible...if you want the 630 hurry up and get one.dan
 
MotoXotica said:
I rode a sm 630 yesterday,sweet bike.just plain odd that 630s did not sell better than they did in most markets until the price was chopped down to used bike levels.I am under the understanding that the 650 that will replace the 630 will not be super high end.they are trying to compete with bikes that sell for less than the 630 did, and yeild sales #s in much higher volume than they felt the 630 ever could .630 production is done folks unless some thing changes, which is always possible...if you want the 630 hurry up and get one.dan
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I think you might have answered your own question. The 630 did not sell here because the uninformed bought the $1500 less DRZ650 instead. As much as we love the high performance TE610/630 at close to $1500 more it makes it a tough leap for many and pushes them into the next level of buying. Just a thought, might be wrong. :)
 
Motosportz said:
I think you might have answered your own question. The 630 did not sell here because the uninformed bought the $1500 less DRZ650 instead. As much as we love the high performance TE610/630 at close to $1500 more it makes it a tough leap for many and pushes them into the next level of buying. Just a thought, might be wrong. :)
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+1
At $8-$9K I wasn't even considering the TE630, would have held out for a 690 Enduro R as only another $1K. But really both over my budget so instead was considering a well used 690 but hard to find or a DR or XRL and then modding heavily. At $6.5K a completely different story though, cheaper than any options above and still more bike than a modded DR/XRL. That along with finding a demo bike for even less convinced me to pull the trigger.

Actually I think Husky/BMW might have errored on the deep price reduction. I realize they wanted to clear all inventory before the new 650 is released. But if that new 650 is a heavy weight F650 adventure based hybrid then I believe people would have been happy to pick up the last of the lighter weight dual sport 630's at regular pricing.

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SilverBullet said:
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At $8-$9K I wasn't even considering the TE630, would have held out for a 690 Enduro R as only another $1K. But really both over my budget so instead was considering a well used 690 but hard to find or a DR or XRL and then modding heavily. At $6.5K a completely different story though, cheaper than any options above and still more bike than a modded DR/XRL. That along with finding a demo bike for even less convinced me to pull the trigger._
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+1+1
I was thinking the same thing (690 or DR650), until I heard about the big price reduction.
Only difference was my SO bought the TE at $6099 as an early B-day gift for me. :love:
 
Still very pleased with my TE610, for me the TE630 was just a small step further away from a dirt bike and too much adventure or enduro. Glad I did not upgrade. Interesting to see what the 650 will weigh in at? If it is less capable of single track, that will be sad.
 
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