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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Australian Tourtech rally

The photo was taken at the Australian Touratech event?

Robin Box, is the Australian Touratech Distributor. He is also the owner of Safari Tanks. He owns a Terra. I presume that's his bike. (His main business is building canoes, so I presume they're his as well.)
 
nev.. said:
The photo was taken at the Australian Touratech event?

Robin Box, is the Australian Touratech Distributor. He is also the owner of Safari Tanks. He owns a Terra. I presume that's his bike. (His main business is building canoes, so I presume they're his as well.)
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Plain old advertising then...?
 
Mark_H said:
Plain old advertising then...?
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If you want to call it that, but if that raft system breaks, it's his personal bike going into the pond, so he's putting his money where his mouth is :) (And I believe he bankrolled the Australian Touratech Event as well, so he was putting his money on the table first).

We are actually quite fortunate in Australia. We have a relatively small population, and therefore a small market for motorcycles to start with, and an even smaller market for adventure bikes, but we are fortunate to have some of the best adventure bike accessory manufacturers there are. Safari building long range tanks, B&B building bullet proof bashplates, Andy Strapz building soft luggage systems and a myriad of other accessories and even a mob who design build and sell complete Rallye conversion kits for KTM690s if that's your weapon of choice. If a bit of product spruiking and self promotion keeps them all in business then let them go for it.
 
nev.. said:
.......... but we are fortunate to have some of the best adventure bike accessory manufacturers there are. Safari building long range tanks, B&B building bullet proof bashplates, Andy Strapz building soft luggage systems and a myriad of other accessories and even a mob who design build and sell complete Rallye conversion kits for KTM690s if that's your weapon of choice. If a bit of product spruiking and self promotion keeps them all in business then let them go for it.
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I fully agree, and of course I believe you have some of the best Adventure Biking country in the world, with great information exchange and excellent group cooperation all over OZ.
 
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