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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Actual news on the KTM purchase of Husqvarna

This looks good! I see myself buying a new Shineray.
Really hope they do make the 125/144 as well, 2013 x-light would be awesome.
 
Naturally, they´ll only make them as long as the parts in the bin last. BMW didn´t want anything more to do with the 630. Nor did KTM. So it wasn´t apparently a market success. The 630 was one of the last restricted bikes that could be sold here in EU with the clear but tacit understanding that it would only work together with the after market p/u kit. So it´s still to be seen whether the German TÜV´ll take kindly to a new application to register the Shineray 630.
 
My 2008 te 250 still going strong after 300 hours. I've never had to adjust the valves, still has the stock chain and bearings except the linkage bearings. Just lately the starter switch has kapputted but it starts second kit no problem. Lots of mud and rock trail riding. Someone ought to go back to those mv augusta lumps. Bomb proof.
 
You can either archive the technology you own or license it out for income... And a few billion around the world need a good designed, low costing bike right now for everyday usage ... I'd want a cut from every bike sold ...

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If SP still owns the factories over there, he has a lot of options here ... ( And the weirdness continues )
 
Phil Lamb said:
TVS, Shineray, etc.
Was in Rwanda this summer. A government document estimates that there are 10,000 moto-taxis in Kigali, the capital of about 1,000,000 population. 99+% of the bikes were 125 cc TVS cycles. Took a moto to the downtown dealer. Looked like you could buy one for about USD1,250. Don't know about taxes, etc. A 250 could be had for about 1,800. Local news reports indicated TVS is planning a big assembly plant in Uganda. I actually rode one, about 1/2 mile on a very bad dirt road in town. Decent bike, despite the clapped out forks and brakes. Did not notice any motorcycle art about it, but very functional.

The variety of small bikes to be pouring out of India and China will be interesting to watch. Even H-D is coming out with smaller bikes, 500/750 cc, apparently with Kansas City and Indian plants.

I think TVS manufacures about 7 million units/year; H-D, about 250,000 per year.
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I think I have seen a couple of these Shineray bikes here ... So that opens up the possibility of seeing one of these cloned Huskies here ... I'll have to keep a look out for a dealer ... And at the prices you mentioned above, I'd have a buy 1 and change the plastic out ... If it sucked too bad, it can be a customer bike for the slower riders here.
Motosportz said:
:banana: I wish they would buy the rights tot he X-light platform and 449 platform :thumbsup:
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These engines are yet to reappear ...They must have something up their sleeve for these guys.
 
The pipe is an example of what HAS to be done, to keep 2ts on the road in many countries. Without rego, in most countries, you'll not be riding much. Pretty soon, to use something with anything but what it came with, will get you in deep, deep trouble - well, it could / can in most places, it's just that laws aren't enforced that heavily. When the orders come in to enforce them, riders will be hammered. It will be a pretty good way of boosting the income stream, and looking like things are being done about those "evil bastards that are destroying the environment ". Us. Well, that's how most idiots see us.

It's yet another reason that new 'cleaner techs', are coming our way, if we are to keep having 2ts that work well, available to us.
 
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