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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

New GasGas EcRanger line, competition for the X-trainer

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Not much info out yet on these guys


https://enduro21.com/index.php/40-general/3425-first-look-2019-gas-gas-enduro-models-revealed

The biggest news from the 2019 model launch is the new trail friendly ECR Ranger aimed at the everyday, more hobby Sunday rider in 250 and 300cc two-stroke capacities. The Ranger is born into a competitive market place with Beta’s X-Trainer proving a popular bike because of its all-round easy nature and competitive price tag.

Gas Gas’s decision to basically de-tune the Racing model for the Ranger could be a savvy one: it has the same looks, same frame and swingarm, basic engine, KYB suspension (softened and providing a 40mm lower seat height) and Excel rims.

Looking more closely it is not hard to see where money has been saved in production. Details like lower spec J Juan brake calipers, different brake discs and triple clamps for example are not the same but we’d expect that from a bike in this bracket of the enduro market.

The proof is in the pudding and in our initial test ride it was a surprisingly good bike. As you’d expect it is very much like an accessible and softer version of its racier siblings without being too soft. We’ll go into more detail in a separate story so stay tuned.

Well-priced
The ECR Ranger will arrive in 250 and 300 versions in the white colours to distinguish it from the red Racing and GP models.


The Ranger’s price tag of around €1000/£1000 less than EC Racing model puts it in ballpark with the Beta X-Trainer.

Production of the 2019 Racing models is happening now and the 200cc models will follow. The new Ranger will start production in November and then the GP model in January 2019.
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Probably not in Cali :thinking: In rural NC if a bike comes with a title that doesn't say Off Road, passes inspection for street use, it can be registered and tagged for street usage.
 
Steve, there isn't anything fun and 2 stroke we can plate in Cali:lol:. But we can sure dump some serious coin into a sorta high speed train that will never be finished in our lifetime.
 
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