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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husqvarna Concept Moab

Motosportz said:
Looks like the scrambler idea is alive and well over seas. This company makes some cool looling modern / retro ones...

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Whoa...nice! It probably won't look as clean, though, with a chain, brake lines, cables, wires and whatnot :busted:

I like the discs and forks and all the modern stuff. Too bad about the twin shocks in the back, though.
Yamaha put twin shocks on their SRX600 in 1987 but Ohlins had an answer for them :)
 
TXC&KTM said:
So it is designed for flat, hard-packed beaches? I guess the concept is lost on me...:excuseme:
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I think Husky's marketing group got a little lost somewhere. It is obviously designed for the wet, sandy, inter-tidal zones in Moab. Maybe something we will see someday with ocean levels rising. Under the new corporate vision, BMW is targeted at mature, more well to do riders while Husky aims for the youth market. With the Moab, Husky goes after the youth market by bringing out it's interpretation of a late '50s BSA scrambler?

I kinda like it as a concept but I'm 30 years beyond being considered part of the youth market. I can remember wanting to own a BSA scrambler. I can't imagine buying a Moab. Where would you actually use it? It isn't sporty in a KTM Duke way, no good for distance travel, no good off road, Vespas are better for running errands around town. Posing at the coffee shop? Add me to the lost ones.
 
It's a styled supermoto concept...that's all it is...modern interpretation of a scrambler...done.
As far as the supermoto aspect, well I don't know that it'll be as good as the 610...certainly looks a bit heftier
But as far as the style of the concept I think they did a fantastic job and as mach as i love Vespas this would be mach more fun and more all-rounder

Like it or not, to me this is a billion times more acceptable then the SMQ or Mille-3 concepts
 
If the bike looks appeal to riders, if it rides and performs well and is reliable at a decent price, riders will find a place to ride it ...
 
Muddy Waters said:
Not sure if you're aware of the story behind this bike but here it is Borile B500RICKI
The rest of the Borile line is very unique too :thumbsup:
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I'll read the link later but that machine just looks like an old model bike with what we all know is needed ... A disk front (and rear) brake ... Not sure about the rear suspension (ESP) or front ... A bike like that needs to be capable of logging air time or it is too far in the past on the performance scale...

Subframe looks like it is ready for logging some air time ...
 
The owner of the company build this bike in memory of his twenty year old son who died in 2009...so regardless if it "works" or not, I think it's a beautiful homage from a dad to his lost son
 
i used to build concept cars, and all of ours were runners. from the AMG ME412 to the chrysler firepower, they all ran. and it's easier to do on a bike. passing california's CARB tests is the biggest hurdle for most mfg's. that's where the new nortons are at now.....
 
Personally, I don't really understand the trend towards some of these 'old school look' bikes. The main driver that I've always found interesting is the constant technological development in new motorcycles; chassis, suspension, engine technology, etc. I also want my bike to look new as well. The only thing motorcycles were slower to the consumer market with has been fuel injection- but that's likely because they didn't have to meet as strict emission standards like cars did. With the exception of fuel injection, motorcycles have always been at the technological forefront of personal transportation. Cars- not so much.

That being said, I could see myself owning a bike or two from my youth, such as a '72 Honda 50- for nostalgia reasons. But I'd want the actual bike, not a modern stylistic rendering of one.

Many have said that because Detroit has been having success with retro look Camaros, Mustangs etc. that it's the thing to do. IMO it works for Detroit because cars in the 60's actually had beautiful timeless body designs & most car designs have sucked since then. Putting a modern drivetrain & chassis under a timeless car body design is icing on the cake.

Motorcycles didn't go thru a design dark age from about '72 til recently like cars did.
With motorcycles, IMO modern ones have almost always looked better & certainly have worked better than the previous generations, so this approach doesn't work as well. Granted, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so take this all for what it's worth.
 
The manufacture's do a valliant effort these days applying the common denominators to get our bucks....new beatles..camaro's..challengers...mini's and many others all aimed squarely at our demographic....

the trick is to entertain our mechanical senses while they take us for a trip down memory lane......

I would say no question the MOAB is aimed squarely at north america and the largest free market in the world....

I wasnt too keen on the NUDA when I saw it.....and I ride a 08 CBR1000rr....but the more I looked at it the more I like it.....lots of naked bikes these days didnt make sense to me...then I saw the BIMOTA DB9 Bravido..... and I have been changing my views

I find the MOAB a very interesting concept......the more I look the more I like....but for me it would be a city bike
 
Wish I´d bought a BSA CCM and kept my MAICO `cos I´d never be able to get them registered street legal today. But I can´t relate to Triumph or Husqvarna products that pretend to be something that just isn´t there any more.
 
If They build it I will Buy it, way cooler than the Strada. Getting old skool stuff registered is easy, got my 68 DKW registered as an agricultural implement!
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"Getting old skool stuff registered is easy"

Not here it isn´t! Either you´ve kept it on the register or ... once it´s off, it stays off.
 
Rasput.: They (TÜV) terll me that if it´s taken off the register ... it´s dead (I´ve pm´ed you as there´s a whole group of CCM bikers struggling.
 
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Just discovered this bike online. Love it. If they release a street legal version, I would sell my SM610 and use the proceeds towards this bike.
 
nice bike but the U.S. model as some mx wheel and front fender on it and it don't look right,it's just not a dirt bike.
 
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