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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Now look what BMW has built!

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BMW Shows Production S 1000 RR Superbike
By Gabe Ets-Hokin

It's gone from fantasy to concept to official announcement . . . all the way to a real product. BMW's first real superbike, the inline-four-powered S 1000 RR, made its debut to the world press at the Monza round of the World Superbike Series in Italy last weekend. The bike, which weighs in at 455 pounds full of fluids and makes a claimed 193 hp, will be in U.S. dealerships in the fourth quarter of 2009, but BMW of North America has yet to announce pricing.

We've already told you a lot about the S 1000 RR. Here are some more details. The engine uses F1 trickery, like individual (and teeny) cam followers and titanium valves to boost rpm and power output. Redline is at 14,200 rpm (compare a typical redline of 13,000 rpm for a Japanese superbike), and the claimed peak torque output of 82.5 lb.-ft. comes at 9,750 rpm. There are butterfly valves in the stainless-steel exhaust system to boost mid-range performance. A "race" ABS system (which adds only 5.5 pounds to the bike), quickshifter and dynamic traction control ("DTC") are all optional.

The internet forums are already packed with comments griping about the bike's unconventional styling. This is after months of criticizing the bike (in WSB race form) for looking too much like a Japanese superbike. Particularly vexing to the conventional are the asymmetrical headlights and delicate taillight. One more for the "you can't please everyone" file. But those who do like the bike, and who crave the long list of standard and optional features along with what may be the best power-to-weight ratio in the class, may be very pleased with the bike's rumored low MSRP. I was told last year the bike would be priced within 10% of its Japanese counterparts, which has been borne out by the European bike's pricing: 15,150 Euros, just 255 Euros more than a Euro-spec Yamaha YZF R-1. It'll be offered in four color schemes: grey, silver, green and a race-replica.

http://motorcycledaily.com/11may09_bmw_s1000rr.htm
 
BlipBlip!;32747 said:
This is after months of criticizing the bike (in WSB race form) for looking too much like a Japanese superbike.
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I was thinking that it does look very Japanese....not that that's a bad thing.:excuseme:
 
Been following that for a while. It is supposed to be very fast. Conventional for BMW but it is a formula proven to work well for racing. I believe the motor and several other parts are manufactured in Korea or china.
 
I like the shark gills on the side and that swing arm looks like the cats meow.




Looking forward to twisting the grip on one of these.
 
They had to build/get it to the showroom floor soon (homologation rules) as they are all ready racing it in the World Superbike championship (production based machines)with Corser and Xaus,,,,Xaus just finished 7th at Monza its highest finish yet (but after losing some top riders in a bad turn 1 crash). They are making progress on the track at every race this year so far. And they are BMW dead serious about this race program (as I saw at Assen), their operation is a big deal (expense). R
 
Did this change to Cafe BMW? I understand the spirit of the ownership and all but I for one could not stand being compared with, talked about, or referenced to any of my "big brothers" when growing up. Basically........its not a Husky.
My 2 cents
 
Joe Chod;32781 said:
Did this change to Cafe BMW? I understand the spirit of the ownership and all but I for one could not stand being compared with, talked about, or referenced to any of my "big brothers" when growing up. Basically........its not a Husky.
My 2 cents
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What an elitist :D guess I have to stop posting pix of my ATK as well huh? Get over your self. :lol:

All meant as poking fun :thumbsup:

IMHO the mail forum should be open to anything and is. E-bikes, BMW, ATK...
 
I am an old "Canned-Ham" rider so the ATK is always the bomb (yes even the italian GP based 125 is sweet in a way........rode one with the Paoli conv forks and it was nice but a top end only screamer. Other stuff is just a peev that of course I am over but could not help but to poke fun too.
 
Motosportz;32782 said:
IMHO the mail forum should be open to anything and is. E-bikes, BMW, ATK...
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E-bikes, BMW's even a few Sherco's are OK... but the old clunker ATK...


Well :lol::lol::lol:

Better off with an Harley Baja 100 Now that's a ripper.

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