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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Berghem R250

robertaccio

robertaccio

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Born for extreme enduro in a "garage" in Bergamo by 2 passionate artisan/riders. Presented to HM Racing and Motociclismo Fuoristrada to generate interest in further developement. (HM builds all those trick in house Honda enduro machines and is the Montesa Italian distributor as well which is Honda owned as well)
Montesa 4T trials motor/chassis based with many sourced parts from HM and other aftermarket suppliers. Another Italian artisan machine, stated as a prototype with ideas to build more. Trials tires, HM CRE50 body work etc etc

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Nice, very nice but they could have used a better color choice like they did on the stuff they built a few years ago.

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Put a 34-35'' seat height on it and it would make a great trail bike; something the market is asking for.
 
Slowpoke;115606 said:
Put a 34-35'' seat height on it and it would make a great trail bike; something the market is asking for.
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you would think so but Sherco had no luck selling the T-ride stuff as far as i know. Looks cool.
 
I think the target idea for this machine is pro level hard core enduro x and Xtreme enduros. not a toy for trail riding (but could be, like anything), plus i think the trick base and parts factor would make it on the costly side.

the guy i know with the cota 4t is 70 something and can barely walk he even sits in/on his bike alot while riding. so its used as simple trail and very light trials machine. he has someone else start the thing for him, its always a 1 or 2 kick start FI machine.
 
Motosportz;115610 said:
you would think so but Sherco had no luck selling the T-ride stuff as far as i know. Looks cool.
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It was Scorpa & they never actually fully released it before they went bankrupt. They put off the release for 2 years, meanwhile the world economy fizzled & so did they. Besides, they didn't have enough of a dealer network to get it into the hands of the general public(most of whom didn't know about it anyways).

The bike in the original post could easily be built by Honda and distributed worldwide in several versions. Economies of scale brought by a true world market would keep manufacturing costs low enough that it would be priced at a CRF230 level, further increasing its market potential.
Honda is run by blindfolded moronic beancounters now and would never have the courage to attempt it.
 
So it is conceivable to make a really light trail bike especially for ST stuff. heck 160 or so pounds you could ride it forever.
 
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