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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
ghte;68698 said:You know what I really get steamed about is the absolutly amazing run out prices you get. The Aussie dollar is worth about 90 US cents so the TXC 250 would sell in A$ for circa $4780. We get the run outs at about 10K and new on road they are now about 14K which to you guys in the States is USD 12,600. What a travesty.
skid;69186 said:how much of that is import tax???
Ummmm, I'm about 100%... no 1000% sure the price difference is due to the warranty. Two years on ANY off-road vehicle is not just ridiculous, it's stupid. That's like offering a money back guarantee that every round of a 50 round box of 9mm ammo will hit the bull's-eye.mxracernumber1;69059 said:This has been pointed out before (by me) and I recieved quite an argumentative response from everyone. Glad to see there is someone on these forums that can add and subtract like me. The prices you guys pay is damned rediculous, but part of that price IS IN FACT mostly due to the the 2-year warranty you get. You ARE PAYING FOR A NEW ENGINE before yours breaks (if it breaks). I don't understand why you and I are the only ones that can add and subtract. We pay waaaay too much as it is, but you guys are getting creamed. I love my bike, but a $9,000 dirt bike is rediculous wether it's is dollars, pesos, crona, or those big round village stones...
ghte;68698 said:You know what I really get steamed about is the absolutly amazing run out prices you get. The Aussie dollar is worth about 90 US cents so the TXC 250 would sell in A$ for circa $4780. We get the run outs at about 10K and new on road they are now about 14K which to you guys in the States is USD 12,600. What a travesty.