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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rumor Only.....

Norman Foley

Norman Foley

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Scott Harden was spotted in a prominent New Jersey Dirt Bike Aftermarket shop recently...... That's a long way from the Dez. Could he be shopping for the East Coast Enduro Riders' favorite low mount steering damper or looking for a job a our favorite, now New Jersey based Husky? West Coast Husky riders must be salivating at thought of having a "Western" influence in the company after so many years of being East Coast oriented. Interesting to see what happens with this.
Norman
 
Norman Foley;3540 said:
And 1981, who was a big part of Team Husky until 1987 and has been a big part of KTM since.
Norman
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Searched for "Scott" and only found 1 - they spelled it "Scot" in the 1981 listing. That would certainly be awesome.


On the other hand he could be visiting someone back east, or maybe a vacation.............. wait - I know you well enough by now... Thanks for the heads up.
 
Definitely alot of rumors out there.

In other news be looking to see an official announcement from Husky on some new staffing in the next 1-2 weeks and there should be alot of good stuff coming out of the national dealer meet in just 1 month ;)
 
I hope they have a replacement for Dave Grabski, the Parts/Service/Warranty guy who came over from BMW. He quit after less than a month. Too much work for one guy, I guess.
 
Norman Foley;3571 said:
I hope they have a replacement for Dave Grabski, the Parts/Service/Warranty guy who came over from BMW. He quit after less than a month. Too much work for one guy, I guess.
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He retired, not exactly the same as quitting, but it did not help out the Husky launch effort any that's for sure. Unfortunately there is alot of red tape when hiring new folks within BWM Corporate and it can take 4-6 weeks from the date they decide to hire an individual just to hire that individual with all the approval and verification process. Really can hold back a new company/division launch such as the Husky acquisition.
 
My BMW Dealer said Dave was one of the good guys at BMW. I think, he thought that the Husky thing would be a nice transition towards his retirement. It turned out, that it was much bigger than he thought and he retired/bailed. It may have been more helpful, if he could have seen the transition a little further along.
Norman
 
So now it is just like Cagiva. All the work is dumped on Rob Keiths desk and one man cannot do the work that is asked of him. They better get someone hired PDQ to help RK out. :mad:
 
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