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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

The rise and fall of HUSQVARNA motorcycles

Thank you very much :thumbsup:

I've been waiting for that information for a while. I was unsure of when and how it would be presented, but did expect it. JC Hilderbrand did a good job. I put a link to the article in the Husqvarna History forum. If anyone disagrees with any of it, or would like to comment, please PM or post.

Special thanks to Gunnar Lindstrom, who was instrumental in our research. Gunnar is known as the foremost expert on Husqvarna, and for good reason. There isn’t enough room in this article, nor the entire magazine, to fully chronicle the 107-year history of Husqvarna motorcycles. Such a task would require a complete book. Fortunately, that’s exactly what Husky fans can expect this summer.

Gunnar has coordinated a four-person effort to document the company he worked for so many years ago. His attention to detail, personal insider knowledge and a lifetime of connections ensure that it will surpass the small number of existing publications and become the defining literary work for all things Husky. Ten years in the making, Husqvarna Success, will be released by Parker House Publishing in July, 2010.
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:cheers:
 
It may have been the darkest days but they built such great enduro bikes in that time but without dealer support ppl turned to KTM.
I hope BMW doesn't butcher the Husky brand in order to build up it's off ride bikes.
 
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