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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

October 4, 2013 and counting......

Norman Foley said:
There are still guys over in the vintage/left kick section, who firmly believe....
what most people on this site think is a Husky, isn't one at all. If it was made in Varese, it isn't a Husky.
I ride them all... Swedish, Italian, German and Austrian!:oldman:
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Yep, when I told an old-timer buddy of mine that I bought a 95 Husky 125 last year the first thing he said was "That's not a Husky, thats a Cagiva! Husky stopped making mororcycles in 1987!"

He's right - I couldn't argue with him.
 
Norman Foley said:
There are still guys over in the vintage/left kick section, who firmly believe....
what most people on this site think is a Husky, isn't one at all. If it was made in Varese, it isn't a Husky.
I ride them all... Swedish, Italian, German and Austrian!:oldman:
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Well that is not me I have a 1998 model with a license plate on it and have insurance, tax and registration to prove it is really a Husqvarna. If the motorcycle division has to essentially lease the name as I have read on here things get a bit iffy.

Benelli is now Chinese owed
At least with Saab the automotive division was part of Gm until the "bail out"
The auto division of Volvo was owned by Ford for a while and the truck division is rolled into Mack at this point.
Correct errors if they exist.

I hope they release some pretty detailed technical data. I can see ktm 200 models now have electric start so they must have dc power for a battery. Even if the husky 125 is the only thing on that platform I wonder what sort of electrical components they will put on it.
 
LOL I just looking around and I couldn't find any Bergs for dirt cheap or even cheap. Looks like it may be cheaper just to buy the blue wheels for the new Huskys and we may even get the missing link with them :D.
 
As everyone wants the blue wheels and some are saying they dont like the WP forks I decided to get one step ahead as I am having a massive clear out of many years of spares / parts and unfinished projects that I will never use again and fitted a complete TM front end from a rolling chassis with 48mm Ohlins I have had as spares from when I rode TMs to the 144 and as the setup works so welland I think looks good Im gonna lace a spare blue rim to one of my spare Husky wheels. Forks are far better than the well setup Zokes and the KYBs even with a weepy fork seal Im just about to sort out.:D
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It's October 5 here! And I haven't seen anything yet. But from what I've seen so far it will be a 110th anniversary TXC 310 for me next year, it's been years since we've had TXC's in Australia.
 
Yep, international and US are alive....though neither is aware of US dealerships (note that Europe gets the new bikes first in January)
 
I went through and checked out the "history" section on the new website. I love all the great pics... Pretty cool to view, but typical propaganda.
 
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