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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
EICMA 2011 alot more than Husky going on in Milano
- Thread starter robertaccio
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Husqvarna
Muddy Waters
Husqvarna
AA Class
indeed...
Bellissima !!!
Bellissima !!!
Norman Foley
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Rasputin,my favourite:
r
Can you tell us about this bike?
Troy F Collins
Husqvarna
AA Class
For a second there I thought the motor was a GG unit...but its not
I see bits of Beta in there too....but looks to be a all Bimota design
I'm liking it
It is an amazing "time juncture" in economics on a worldly scale...with the huge Japanese companies seemingly at a standstill in terms of innovation due to the volumes they must sell to be profitable...yet the Euro companies are going "all out" trying new designs..being different and making some lovely machinery...I guess being small means you can specialize
robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I am not getting the whole Italy default thing.........I guess all these innovative cottage shops must be in hock up to the necks....money is definitly being spent on R&D and prototypes. Hope for the best, the EU is going into an even deeper renaissance of moto design and execution. Is that BiMoTa a KTM in disguise or partly a kato?
here's more info on the bimotas: cycleworld
the reason for that is the italians' enthusiasm for motorcycles. there are plenty of genius enthusiasts in italy who design/build motorcycles. and there are plenty of wealthy people in italy who are willing to "burn some money" by financing a motorcycle build or a motorsport team. the motorcycle scene is well connected, and it in fact is more like a scene than an industry.
some cool bikes:
- borile
- zaeta
- vertemati
- swm
swm, for example, is a side "project" of fantic. the 340cc two-stroke short-tracker is featured in a big article in the latest "motociclismo" issue. it's the coolest bike i have seen in years. i want one.
r
the companies that struggle are mostly the parts supplyers. but many of the "cottage manufacturers" are doing quite well.
the reason for that is the italians' enthusiasm for motorcycles. there are plenty of genius enthusiasts in italy who design/build motorcycles. and there are plenty of wealthy people in italy who are willing to "burn some money" by financing a motorcycle build or a motorsport team. the motorcycle scene is well connected, and it in fact is more like a scene than an industry.
some cool bikes:
- borile
- zaeta
- vertemati
- swm
swm, for example, is a side "project" of fantic. the 340cc two-stroke short-tracker is featured in a big article in the latest "motociclismo" issue. it's the coolest bike i have seen in years. i want one.
r
organ donor
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Always wanted to know what happened to the TerraModena SuperMoto (financed by International Watch & Ferrari). T´was the nicest SuMo you could imagine.
Ex HVUK
Husqvarna
AA Class
my favourite:
r
Unusually for Bimota it's a very conventional design, nothing out of the ordinary in layout. Build quality will be good though, depends how much it's going to cost. There's not much of a market for 'premium priced' dirt bikes currently.
Dave
J.R.
Husqvarna
AA Class
it seems like the "bimota" enduros are in fact "jotagas" ("jtg") bikes. in the german husky forum someone posted that jotagas did not show them in their own booth because the bikes were not quite ready, but bimota seemed to be happy to "jump in".
jotagas website
info about jotagas
r
edit: jotagas are spanish, bytheway, not italian. they develop a trial bike, too. if i remember correctly i saw an article about the trial bike prototype in a french magazine some months ago...
2nd edit:
if this is really where the company is situated, i want to work there
i'd build me a 300cc-two-stroke "supermono" (20 years later, roland sands calls them "supersingles") for spending my spare time at the track, and build a hut right by that lake on the right side.
jotagas website
info about jotagas
r
edit: jotagas are spanish, bytheway, not italian. they develop a trial bike, too. if i remember correctly i saw an article about the trial bike prototype in a french magazine some months ago...
2nd edit:
if this is really where the company is situated, i want to work there
i'd build me a 300cc-two-stroke "supermono" (20 years later, roland sands calls them "supersingles") for spending my spare time at the track, and build a hut right by that lake on the right side.
It might be because they don't answer their phones or email !!! I tried for a couple months to contact them and even got the Italian Trade Commission in LA involved, but no dice.
Turns out that they looked a lot more exotic compared to a 2011 GasGas than a 2012 GasGas too.
Norman Foley
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I want that for my ice bike this Winter****************************************!i have just photographed a few photos from the magazine where i first saw the swm "cherry" (fuoristrada 11/11). really the coolest bike i have seen in a long time.
r
organ donor
Husqvarna
Pro Class
So Italy´s the only country left that can still design and build bikes.
robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
You forgot about Spain, yes Italy and Spain are the only ones designing and actually building very cool Moto stuff (They are even for good looking women but Italy also gets the nod for building very cool cars as well).
