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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
How much for the Gasser? Need a tricked out CR 150 on trade??? Like the other guys said, I know it sucks!!! I suggest to ALWAYS buy a carryover or find a SLIGHTLY used bike at a discounted price. And really right now a used jap bike doesn't bring much either!
I think you hit the nail on the head!! I have found selling stuff if you are a little cheaper then the next guy, it will go away!! Yep, $3,000 tops.You can now list on ebay as a classified ad as opposed to a traditional auction. Great way to get national coverage for a set price and it's cheap. Selling fees are also cheap.
The brand is a strike against it, I hate to say it, it just doesn't have enough notariety to attract anyone other than the offroad knowledgable. Anybody that's new is going to be told by their buddies to get a jap bike or a KTM.
A 2-stroke is also a strike, the industry/sport has gone 4-stroke, like it or not that's the reality. Here in CA it's worse because of the red-sticker/greensticker issue.
A 3 year old bike, regardless of mods done (BTW,they don't add value) probably has a market value of half what the current one is selling for. I don't know what that is, but if it's $7000 then the used one is probly worth $3500, maybe a bit less to motivate someone to move on it. Expect to get an offer 10% lower than whatever you're advertising.
Motorcyle sales dropped some 80% between '08 and '10, virtually all models from '09 were still being sold into '10 and even still today. A friend of mine picked up a 2009 KTM 200XC last month, brand new on the floor, at not much less than regular price. They are also irreplaceble so dealers are holding at least some gross on them. That still doen't help the used market.
Frankly, I hate to be a naysayer, but the magic number is probaby in the low 3's to get a motivated buyer.
I doubt said anything you didn't already know. Sorry.
That bike has me excited.
If you were in Canada, I'd be all over that deal. Can't imagine it'll last long at that price.
