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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Any more 630 news as yet?

captainc;65832 said:
None of the Euro Mfg'rs understand the US Market... If you think Husky is bad, try Triumph... They delay production of the 1600 Thunderbird cruiser for almost four years - Thats how long they were talking about it in dealer meetings.. You don't know how many people walked out of our local Triumph dealership because there was nothing between the 900cc America and 2200cc Rocket III (of which I am a proud owner of a Turbocharged version). So when do the Aholes introduce it - when the world economy tanks and the US cruiser market drops 48 percent. The bike is the toast of the town with the MC rags, but the market has dried in half**************************************** The Euro mfg'ers dance to their own drummer and I can point to many times where their decisions really cost them...

Mike...
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Speaking of understanding the markets, there's a great little book out there somewhere by a French guy on how he helps market products like the Jeep. He helped keep the Jeep brand alive by advising the company that Americans likened the Jeep to a horse and so they put in round headlights (like a horse) and the brand took off again. In Europe this was not the connection. They likened Jeep to freedom and so the campaign hooked into the liberation of Europe and the part that Jeeps played.
 
This thread has some unwarranted negativity in it and I would greatly appreciate it if it was removed from the thread. I'll handle the details as needed.
 
Coffee;66006 said:
This thread has some unwarranted negativity in it and I would greatly appreciate it if it was removed from the thread. I'll handle the details as needed.
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I have no idea what your talking about Coffee, I went back a read all the posts, I don't see anything to get worked up about. We don't need big brother censoring our thoughts, that's what the Obama administration is for.
 
Iceveign;66048 said:
I have no idea what your talking about Coffee, I went back a read all the posts, I don't see anything to get worked up about. We don't need big brother censoring our thoughts, that's what the Obama administration is for.
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:thumbsup:
 
Iceveign;66048 said:
I have no idea what your talking about Coffee, I went back a read all the posts, I don't see anything to get worked up about. We don't need big brother censoring our thoughts, that's what the Obama administration is for.
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Gee, now I'm having flashes of getting the KLR650.net banhammer out for being liberal minded..........
 
Flying Trash Can;66101 said:
I'll pay you a dollar if you post a pic of you doing a wheelie on your Rocket III. Seriously.
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I would but there are four inches of snow here and 19 degrees. Will have to wait 'til spring... I can get air the first three gears without much problem.. The bike is 780lbs and I'm 350. 'til then, here are some pics:

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and here are the latest set of dyno runs:

Turbo_R3_dyno_run_II.jpg


But enough about my Rocket, this is a Husky forum...

Mike....
 
Iceveign;66048 said:
I have no idea what your talking about Coffee, I went back a read all the posts, I don't see anything to get worked up about. We don't need big brother censoring our thoughts, that's what the Obama administration is for.
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captainc;66177 said:
:thumbsup:
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mtne;66186 said:
Gee, now I'm having flashes of getting the KLR650.net banhammer out for being liberal minded..........
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I posted to the wrong thread. Sorry. :doh:
 
captainc;66187 said:
and here are the latest set of dyno runs:

Turbo_R3_dyno_run_II.jpg


But enough about my Rocket, this is a Husky forum...

Mike....
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:eek: Jesus Christ man, I think you have more torque in that bike then my XL 2500 express van !!! :shocked:

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(But really it’s just --> :banana: :D)
 
Muddy Waters;66211 said:
:eek: Jesus Christ man, I think you have more torque in that bike then my XL 2500 express van !!! :shocked:

:thumbsup:

(But really it’s just --> :banana: :D)
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Engines with odd numbers of cylinders (particularly 3's) are huge torque monsters.:thumbsup:
 
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