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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

husky prototypes

These are gonna have to grow on me. It might take quite a while or at least a six pack before gazing at them. :-)
 
I think the café bike needs a tapered old style GP tail like a Laverda which was somewhat squared off but raked back over the rear tire and room for numbers. It also needs a proper full fairing for the photo shoot. Then it should be raced. Only then will it have the cred. The Scrambler can duke it out in the magzines with the Duc Scrambler. Right now they are posers. Seems like fashion is leaning towards just make it look crappy and add chunky tires :rolleyes:

** Icing on the cake is that round headlight shell with a rectangular light... So freaking cool :thumbsdown: The SM with the "bustle tail" has that funny headlight too. Not a fan.
 
i think it would be much better if it didnt have the one piece lame body...looks especially bad on the silver
 
I like it
They're based on the Duke 390 platform
Both concepts to me look a hell of a lot better then the BMW era concepts; the SMQ and the Milla3...should we post picture of those atrocities to remind everybody what a bad concept really looks like?
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Glad I never even saw those before. Just goes to show, youth today have a long road to reinvigorating industrial design.
 
I'm not sure what exactly are my feelings about that new 701....I'll have to marinate on that for a little bit...
However, in my mind none of the other bikes you mentioned are considered pretty......although the Nuda could be fixed very easily with a new headlight
 
Johnrg said:
Glad I never even saw those before. Just goes to show, youth today have a long road to reinvigorating industrial design.
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Well, my eyes aren't as good now at 61 as they were four years ago, but I think I still don't care much for the concepts :-) ( I know tho what you mean about the task before today's youth)
 
These companies are spending a lot of money horsing around with sight gags where none is needed. Sculpt nice organic shapes, work with the curves of the wheels and rider. Keep it clean and simple. Clearly they all strive to make that ultimate naked bike but none are done with proper proportion. I would put up my old SC to any of those prototypes. :cool:

Italian design is the answer...

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Muddy Waters said:
Oh what the hell, lets do it!
Just to remind our younger viewers how it used to be not so long ago.......here are the glorious BMW era concepts

The SMQ
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The Mille 3
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How do those new KTM era concepts look now? :thinking:
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Oooohhh my eyes are bleeding!:lol:
Yes the KTM concepts are looking better now...
 
I don't want to sound racist here, but German and Austrians just don't have it in their DNA to create beautiful concept bikes. Please KTM/Husky no more ugly concept bikes. Just unveil next years models at the big shows and leave the concept bikes to the Italians. They know what they're doing. See below for proof.

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The thing is when these come to production they will have a some sort or tail for a license plate, etc... Why not have that be part of a cohesive design? Sure....Pull that off for racing and have an alternate cohesive look but it's going to be different. Every manufacturer knows/goes through this. I more appreciate those that are true to the prototypes. Audi with the initial TT and Ducati with it's Sport Classics. Husky needs to put the stuff on that production will mandate, IMO. It's how we ride.
 
They are real close. Tail extension and plate holders in black like the dirt bikes but heavy/metal. Most of the work done. A little refinement in aesthetics for tank shape and logo would be good. Probably a good seller in other countries if done right... Price point/youth. Get buyers into the brand and loyal.
 
Colo moto said:
I don't want to sound racist here, but German and Austrians just don't have it in their DNA to create beautiful concept bikes. Please KTM/Husky no more ugly concept bikes. Just unveil next years models at the big shows and leave the concept bikes to the Italians. They know what they're doing. See below for proof.

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There are motos in the first two photos??
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