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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Trail Bike Magazine UK going digital

raisrx251

raisrx251

Husqvarna
AA Class
I get an e-mail from TBM from time to time and today I wrote back and asked if they had any plans going digital. He told me that they were in talks now with getting things lined up for Itunes. He said the problem was by the time they pay all the fees to produce etc.. it was going to be 3.00 to 3.20 pounds per issue. They wanted to hear some feedback so this is also why I am posting it here. Before jumping in about how this is so expensive compared to our US subscriptions, I have to say this is a good quality mag. At least the few issues I have read have been good. There next issue is already talking about riding the 2013 Husqvarna line. There 200th issue was 236 pages! Would you pay that much?
 
I've been reading Trail Bike Mag since day 1 (which was almost before the internet was invented!). The mainstream UK dirt bike mags of the time always seemed more excited about reviewing fancy graphics / beany hats rather than actually going out and riding. TBM were (and remain) a bunch of honest guys who ride, race, occasionally complain about, but above all just love dirtbikes - and enduro, slamming across continents, supermoto, riding trails and all the other good stuff.

They don't take no faff from manufacturers either. When the first Yam WR400 was released their review was generally positive, but they dared to say that it was an absolute pita to start when hot (which it was). One of Yamaha UK's head honchos then told them in no uncertain terms to retract their statement, or they'd never get another Yam to test. Not only did they call his bluff, they printed his threat in the next issue! so when TBM review a bike, I believe what they say (and for the record they like Huskies).

A lot of people here in the UK have been waiting for a digital version of the mag, so I'm glad that the little publication with the big cojones is going global.*

*no, I'm not related to the editor, nor do I have shares. I just love the mag. :)
 
I'm tossed about this... I love the magazine, but it seems to show up very sporadically here.

The problem with the digital version is that I really like printed material. I don't fancy reading it on my iPod Touch' tiny screen, but if there's a way to view it on my Playbook, I'll probably give it a shot.

BTW, the comment about the called bluff and printing the threat cracked me up. Good for them!
 
UPDATE

Hi guys... just wanted to let you know that TBM Magazine is now officially available for download on the iTunes store. Enjoy!
 
TBM said:
UPDATE

Hi guys... just wanted to let you know that TBM Magazine is now officially available for download on the iTunes store. Enjoy!
Click to expand...

iTunes store? ... Should reach several hundred thousand potential customers at least ... Husky should keep in close contact with TBM ...

Being digital makes it readily available to someone in the boonies like where I am ...
 
I found it in the app store but like he said, you have to try trail bike and then search a few pages to the right. It will say it is free but when you go to view it they charge you. Good article on the 2013's, I have not got to the rest of the mag yet.
 
It's the app which is free guys. Once you download that it allows you to purchase copies of the digital mag!
 
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