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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Poll - Are you planning to buy a new KTM based husky?

Will you be buying a KTM based husky soon?

  • Total voters
    158
I don't know, we'll see how that 701, 61/30 replacement will look like....
Hell, an 990 SMT Husky version will be very hard to say no to...
 
I'm not opposed to owning one, but I'm not gonna shell out $8k for the same old 2 stroke technology that my current Husky provides at half the cost. Luckily, my 09' is still pretty fresh and I've got a brand new 14' waiting in the wings, so I'm good on bikes for quite a few years.
 
I think I'll wait and see what the next year offerings are, not just what models are available but what the prices on those models end up being.
 
No as I don't need a new bike
&
No because of the cost

As you can see from my avatar, got it covered . only need a 165 and wanted a Nuda. May have to have one shipped from Europe soon?
 
A Yes contingent upon the garage clearing of my x-lite collection....2011 TE310, 2013 TXC310

I'll just keep them ot one or the other if they dont sell. Still stuck on 3 choices FE350,FE300,Beta 300RR
 
No. Pending test rides on the new Sherco 250 & 300 2T. I love the husky X lite platform and the Shercos sound like they share similar handling traits. It will be Sherco vs husky fc350 / Te250. Whichever I like better which may just be French.
 
Unfortunately no, they will be priced out of my range. I will just find a reasonably priced used Italian built husky and ride it.
 
Like to have one but they discounted the left over Italian ones. Made my value sink like a tank,from $7300 to $4500 overnight , so will wait till dust settles for maybe a 15/16.
 
Norman Foley said:
PDS works, but linkage is better. The guy who helped me dial my PDS in, just admitted it!
Click to expand...

Geeez Norm, pay attention, i have been telling you this for years :D There is a reason every MX bike and almost every bike right down to kids bikes have a linkage. Yes a PDS can be made to work, thats a given but the linkage bikes work better and with a lot less fine tuning / concessions.
 
hammer said:
Not going to buy a bike just because it says Husky on the the side of it. If Beta keeps building bikes like the one I have, I see no reason to buy a KTM.
Click to expand...
I'm the flip side this argument.... Beta has a long relationship with KTM and the bike is very influenced by this. KTM models are the target motorcycle for Beta, not Italian Husqvarnas. The only similarity is... they are both red and white and both built in Italy.

I rode a 300RR and it is a very nice bike, but it felt very KTM like to me. It did not handle or feel like an Italian Husky in any way. I could get used to it, but I'd be doing the same mods I did to my Husaberg, to get it to handle more like my '09 WR125. So for me, I'll go with the White Husky, because it's a Husky in my eyes, even if Thomas Gustavsson only gets a minor role.....
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top