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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Ever wondered what a modern motorcycle engine building plant looks like?

It's real cool but I could not help but notice how quiet is is on the production floor. Whats up with that ? Being a rail roader for long as I have been, I'm used to a VERY lively shop floor !:cheers:
 
Interesting vid. Didn't know BMW had a 6cyl inline Engine in a bike :eek:


yep...

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they were also showing a cool looking sport type bike based on that motor but dont think they ever built it for production.

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No BMW hatred here, I think they build really great engines. Video kind of reminds me of the ZipTy shop with multiple stations.
 
Must be a German/Austrian thing-I saw a lot of those "star" bolts like on my KTM. I like their mechanics gloves though!
 
After watching the entire video it dawns on me if theyve not torqued a bolt on the engine they didnt put one in there as every process had twin doeruppers and electric screwdrivers.
Wonder howlong those guys stick to their jobs, just doing one process would bore to tears.
 
Not that I am complaining but when you look at all that tooling, the jigs and everything -- makes me grateful bikes aren't any more expensive than they are.
 
Not that I am complaining but when you look at all that tooling, the jigs and everything -- makes me grateful bikes aren't any more expensive than they are.


Same here, I wonder how much of assembly line has to be changed to switch to another motor in a couple years when its time to make something bigger and badder. I like leading edge,new technology but at what cost? How much money is spent to buy molds, forms and all associated tooling, fixtures, jigs just for BNG or something that doesn't have anything to do with performance. Everything that changes shape needs all the requires all of the above. I know CNC helps cut down on cost but they aint cheap either.
 
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