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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Fantic Motor 2013 Line
- Thread starter robertaccio
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Husqvarna
The anodized forks look cool! Yeah, I'm a squid. The frame looks interesting because it isn't a solid piece, it splits into two smaller parts. Graphics are pretty busy though lol
fletchman45
Husqvarna
Pro Class
The fork looks awesome**************************************************************************************************************************************************************** And WTF does a fine Italian bike(Husqvarna) come with japenese components! I like IT!!
hodaka bob
Husqvarna
AA Class
They also have a adjuster plate on top of the tripple tree loosen 4 bolts and the forks can be adjusted 1 degree + or - from stock. If were luckey they my make it to these shores in the not to distant future.
Hodaka Bob
Hodaka Bob
robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Fletch, those Red ("Pedro" Palladino tuned) 48mm Marzocchis are what ZipTy racing was using after removing the KYBs from their race bikes. I believe the chassis/frame is very similar to the Gas-Gas, but Fantic leaves the trellis nicely exposed rather than welding a plate down the side (check me on this G-G owner). Yes about the Yam sourced engine and they were sourcing G-G 2T engines as well. Fantic has always been a cottage artisanal group that uses sourced engines.
I just love these small Italian engineering design manufacturing companies (like TM as well), that despite a real crappy biz climate in the EU continue to build out of pure passion for motorsports. We should all be so inspired. (my wisdom of the day!!).
Also how much more Italian can a company be, that builds and sells Motos and Expresso machines. (If I remember correctly a friend told me the owner is a coffee company owner first and used that cash and caffeine to fuel his moto passion.) The Blue and Red Fantic espresso machine is high style and super cool. Also interesting they bought the rights to the classic RG Stivali (boots) and have them in their line as well. I'm a big fan of this brand, artisanal and small, basically a family owned passion company. We need to wake up and small the espresso (I'm trying right now)
I just love these small Italian engineering design manufacturing companies (like TM as well), that despite a real crappy biz climate in the EU continue to build out of pure passion for motorsports. We should all be so inspired. (my wisdom of the day!!).
Also how much more Italian can a company be, that builds and sells Motos and Expresso machines. (If I remember correctly a friend told me the owner is a coffee company owner first and used that cash and caffeine to fuel his moto passion.) The Blue and Red Fantic espresso machine is high style and super cool. Also interesting they bought the rights to the classic RG Stivali (boots) and have them in their line as well. I'm a big fan of this brand, artisanal and small, basically a family owned passion company. We need to wake up and small the espresso (I'm trying right now)
Great looking bikes.