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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Snarky "they don't make parts for those Italian huskys anymore"

Fun thread, serious question.
Where does this "have to provide parts for ten years" come from? It tends to be repeated as if a verity. Is this a USA law or rule? Obviously a manufacturer or its successor in interest must honor warranty claim periods, but beyond that, is there any legal compulsion? Now, as a lawyer, I admit to no legal research on this. In fact, I would not know where to economically start.
Just curious.
 
justpinit said:
I don't believe ktm's are bad, it's the ppl that ride them. Some how ktm engineers found a way to guarantee that a douchebag will connect the handle bars to the seat and foot pegs. Unfortunately no aftermarket companies make a replacement for this particular part.
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Youch! I've got a KTM AND a Husky! I must be some kind of bastard son ,cuase I like 'em both:eek:
 
justpinit said:
Tell them, if ktm's are so great then why did dungey look so uncomfortable when he got on the 450. In the end they had to build a bike from scratch, and i'm sure that since decoster was involved they made it handle LESS like a ktm and more like a normal bike!
I have ridden friends Kmart Trail Machines and never got comfortable on any of them. Not a single one of them turned worth a crap!! And yet when i get on any jap bike everything is fine. They can make the argument that the pro's do fine on them, but when you have a team that can throw tons of money at it eventually it will work. After all that it still is less ktm and more after market goodies which explains why it work better.
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Like the WR..I mean YZs Yamaha was racing?
 
Phil Lamb said:
Fun thread, serious question.
Where does this "have to provide parts for ten years" come from? It tends to be repeated as if a verity. Is this a USA law or rule? Obviously a manufacturer or its successor in interest must honor warranty claim periods, but beyond that, is there any legal compulsion? Now, as a lawyer, I admit to no legal research on this. In fact, I would not know where to economically start.
Just curious.
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Yes im purdy sure it is a law if your still in business you hafta supply parts and you can retain the rights to them and lockout the after market i just had to go to a ford dealer for an axle seal 30 bucks for a little piece of rubber
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I never in my wildest dreams, thought I would be an apologist for KTM......

I love my Swedish and Italian Huskys and I will continue to ride and race them. That said... After 2 hard seasons of riding and racing... My TE250 Husaberg flat out works and has required no more to keep it going, than any other Husky I've owned.

I'll be honest.... It took a bit of set up and fiddling to make it handle, coming off an Italian Husky. Actually, very much like my '87 430WR was....

KTM cooling systems are weak, but once I added a fan, no problems.

I'm going to replace the '12 TE250 next year. The only question is... Husaberg TE250/PDS or Husky TE250/Linkage?

I spent years hating KTM, I'm done with that. Nothing good ever came of it, so I'm staying positive. :oldman:
 
Norman Foley said:
I never in my wildest dreams, thought I would be an apologist for KTM......

I love my Swedish and Italian Huskys and I will continue to ride and race them. That said... After 2 hard seasons of riding and racing... My TE250 Husaberg flat out works and has required no more to keep it going, than any other Husky I've owned.

I'll be honest.... It took a bit of set up and fiddling to make it handle, coming off an Italian Husky. Actually, very much like my '87 430WR was....

KTM cooling systems are weak, but once I added a fan, no problems.

I'm going to replace the '12 TE250 next year. The only question is... Husaberg TE250/PDS or Husky TE250/Linkage?

I spent years hating KTM, I'm done with that. Nothing good ever came of it, so I'm staying positive. :oldman:
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It did save you a lot of money.
 
Norman Foley said:
I'll just let you guys beat this into the dirt, Thumper Talk style.....
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It's all good. I'm angry just like they are. Charge us a couple hundred more because we have a plastic subframe? I'm ok with that. Just a KTM parts bin bike? I can deal with that. Costs a shit ton more money? Ok so I'll have to wait for used ones, I get that. What really pisses me off...where the hell are the blue wheels? Lol
 
I can't believe that no one ever brings up John Penton. ?? IMO it was John Penton that put KTM (basically not much more than a bicycle builder at the time) on the map after being passed over by Husqvarna. From Wikipedia:
After winning the Jack Pine on a Husqvarna in 1967, the Swedish maker invited him to become the distributor of the brand for the eastern United States. In 1967, Penton was a member of the U.S. International Six Day Trial (now called International Six Day Enduro). While in Europe, Penton toured the Husqvarna factory. He had been trying to convince the manufacturer to produce an even lighter off-road machine. After receiving a lukewarm reception to his idea from Husqvarna officials, Penton decided to visit the KTM factory in Austria. At the ISDT, he had met a young engineer for KTM, which produced bicycles and mopeds.

His proposal for a lightweight off-road bike was met with skepticism at KTM, as well. As an incentive, Penton offered to put up $6,000 of his own money if KTM would build prototypes to his specifications. KTM agreed and in early 1968 Penton took delivery of six Penton 100cc prototypes. He promptly entered races and put some of the other top riders on the other bikes. There was an immediate demand for the lightweight and inexpensive Penton (which initially sold for $700). In the first year, more than 400 Pentons were sold. By the time Penton sold the distributorship to KTM, some 10 years later, more than 25,000 Penton motorcycles had been sold in America.
 
Xcuvator said:
I can't believe that no one ever brings up John Penton. ?? IMO it was John Penton that put KTM (basically not much more than a bicycle builder at the time) on the map after being passed over by Husqvarna. From Wikipedia:
After winning the Jack Pine on a Husqvarna in 1967, the Swedish maker invited him to become the distributor of the brand for the eastern United States. In 1967, Penton was a member of the U.S. International Six Day Trial (now called International Six Day Enduro). While in Europe, Penton toured the Husqvarna factory. He had been trying to convince the manufacturer to produce an even lighter off-road machine. After receiving a lukewarm reception to his idea from Husqvarna officials, Penton decided to visit the KTM factory in Austria. At the ISDT, he had met a young engineer for KTM, which produced bicycles and mopeds.

His proposal for a lightweight off-road bike was met with skepticism at KTM, as well. As an incentive, Penton offered to put up $6,000 of his own money if KTM would build prototypes to his specifications. KTM agreed and in early 1968 Penton took delivery of six Penton 100cc prototypes. He promptly entered races and put some of the other top riders on the other bikes. There was an immediate demand for the lightweight and inexpensive Penton (which initially sold for $700). In the first year, more than 400 Pentons were sold. By the time Penton sold the distributorship to KTM, some 10 years later, more than 25,000 Penton motorcycles had been sold in America.
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yes we owe a lot to the Penton family dose anybody have any info or updates on the movie about John?
 
I just got a box of parts from Dan and Ann at MotoXotica. Looks like they do still make them.
 
What about Buell, have I been mislead that no longer available for stuff surely less than ten years old is what they get. How is that different?

I can't get any part for a sweedish husky, can't even get some that share the same part number with bikes in the older single cam section. If you know where to get the primary gear that goes on the clutch and also has the starting gear on the back please post it. Say the 82-88 250 up two strokes non auto. I just did buy a spare third gear as they are still available at least if you want the one that carried over to the older single cam section and it came in a box marked made in CZ
 

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I have a highly modified 09' BMW G450X and they say parts must be available from the dealers for 7 years. I hope they are available for 10 years. I know for a fact that right or left front lateral side panels are no longer available, I can't remember which side. I have about 4 complete sets anyway and a half dozen front and rear spare new fenders.
Where was it said the parts will be available for 10 years. I have a 2011 Husky 449-Kymco /and a BMW-Kymco 450 engine for my BMW chassis.
 
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