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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
After standing out in the 107 degree heat, the errant side panel is fitting a pinch better. Took it for another spin around the 'hood and it handles much better than my old XR. It's supposed to be heavier, but it feels much lighter. I really like the exhaust note. Loud enough to hear the engine work, but quiet enough to keep my neighbors from calling the wife.The top end sure rattles, but it's brand new and not worth complaining about until it's broken in. I think it is perfect for what I was wanting. A capable dirt bike that is street legal and has an electric start. I've rode XR600's since they first came out in the mid 80's and I always hated to be in an awkward situation trying to kick start a hot big bore single. The XR's were never as bad as my old '79 XT500 Yamaha. And you just can't beat the price.
Thumperama brought it up, but I didn't see a response. What is this thing that comes with the new bike?
...I really like the exhaust note. Loud enough to hear the engine work, but quiet enough to keep my neighbors from calling the wife.
Dang, I was hoping it was something that would give us an extra 10 HP!Chain for the USB key. The rubber part holds the USB key cap when the USB key is in use..
(At least thats the only use I could figure it was for.)
To a certain extent all thumpers are going to have a fair amount of top end/valve train noise. Mine runs terrific though, but I still can't figure out why I can't get past 35 mpg's on the thing (and, if anyone is interested in that please chime in, the thread is at http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=507511&page=94 pages 93 and 94 of that thread.)
. It's been monkey see, monkey do between us since we were little kids.
I just checked and there are 3,900 online at the moment... with 15M posts
I just checked and there are 3,900 online at the moment... with 15M posts
Not busy enough for you?
Feel free to start up a thread, whatever you want to do.. FYI - we have the luxury of having a 3 character search, so in theory you should be able to search for mpg...
Just picked one up today. With blow-out pricing and super low financing from BMW how can you miss?? Whoohoo
