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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

More news on the strada 650

Muddy Waters said:
You see, I read that post too wherever it was, and I was thinking what's so special about the "nada" that they got to jump through sooooooo many hoops unlike all the other motorcycles in the USofA?
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If that's not a wtf then I don't know what is...
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I expect there are two hurdles for the Nuda and one and a half for the Strada. Both face emissions approval. Even though they are essentially the same as what BMW offers, there will be changes in FI, exhaust systems, valve timing etc. that will need to go through the approval process. This isn't any big deal. It's the same whenever a bike gets refreshed.

I thnik the big hurdle is getting dealers prepared to service, supply parts, and attract cstomers for a completely different kind of bike. There are a few BMW+ Husky dealerships that would make the transition easily but for others not so much. KTM took years to get the 950 twins into dealers. Most KTM dealers were dirt bike shops and didn't want anything to do with big street bikes. They are still having trouble breaking into the sportbike market. Even though it has much to offer, when was the last time you saw an RC8 or even a Duke on the floor at a KTM dealer?
 
I understand it's about $30G's to get a bike approved to register for hiway use with California Air Resources Board (CARB). CA is the biggest bike market in the US. And that is per model.
BMW made this mistake with the G450X and it finished off a good bike for them for lack of sales. The year it came out they couldn't sell it in CA.
I dunno what the fed requires.
 
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