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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Alta Redshift EX test ride...

I am in the old guy class its run what you brung always, I don't even think even in the AMA ammie rulebook there is a powerplant requirement. its different of course at the pro level and displacement classes categories.

but heck vet 30 sen 40 ssen 50 and masters are all open bike classes.
 
I definitely like the idea. Battery tech will get there / is getting there fast. Needs weight and price. Not sure I can do without my two stroke sound and smell. That sounds silly but... I'm only doing this for fun. Not like I'm committing World Peace by riding, right?
 
The weight isn't the drawback that you think it would be because the reciprocating mass is about 1/10 of a 350F four stroke and all the weight is low and centralized. It felt as nimble as a 125 to me, I was shocked to find out it was 260 lbs. Also if you fill an oversized tank with fuel you're getting very close to that weight. As for power it is every bit as fast if not faster than a 450F. I'd be looking for them to have a battery exchange program as the technology improves and then the only thing to worry about is price. It's weird to ride something with no shifter, clutch, kickstarter, fuel tank, and is almost silent. When you're hauling ass and it's almost silent it gives me a funny feeling. Also you can change maps on the fly so you can put it in ludicrous mode for the start and then click it down to rideable smooth power after the hole shot. The price is the biggest obstacle for me and MSRP doesn't include a charger which is about $700.
 
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