Looked to be near production that all went silent. Anyone know anything?
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Wonder whatever happened to this bike Benelli BX449 BX505
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benwiggin2
Husqvarna
AA Class
drool...
silverpilen
Husqvarna
AA Class
I think Benelli were bought out by the Chinese at the time this was developed. Perhaps the concept got dropped in the takeover. I must agree, Benelli design beautiful bikes (they used to any way).
robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Chinese owned, Alive and well, just never went into production on the dirtbike project, they have a bunch of other models in production. Moto Passion since 1911!!
http://www.benelli.com/ita/News/Grande-successo-per-Benelli--al-^Motodays^-di-Roma-cd-807.aspx
I remember it well, the prototypes were still very raw with some cobby bits, but in usual Italian fashion the style was looking really cool and size and ergos were really good.
http://www.benelli.com/ita/News/Grande-successo-per-Benelli--al-^Motodays^-di-Roma-cd-807.aspx
I remember it well, the prototypes were still very raw with some cobby bits, but in usual Italian fashion the style was looking really cool and size and ergos were really good.
fletchman45
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Yes. I have owned several Triumph speed Triples and considered a Benelli TNT. Looks like a sweet bike!!Have run across a few of the old minibikes from time to time but did not buy for fear of parts availability.