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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
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Muddy Waters
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Really nice comebacks by Derestricted in the comments section 
visiteur1948
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tyla rattray 2014 GP
visiteur1948
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EICMA november 2013 Milano Italy !
visiteur1948
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"replica " PELA RENET
france by ELITE MOTO 15
it's funny how they keep talking about what audi and volkswagen are allegedly doing... i have quite some history with both these companies, their design studios and r&d, and i find this type of propaganda rather amusing (or annoying).Really nice comebacks by Derestricted in the comments section
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Muddy Waters
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I'm not sure what you mean about allegedly or propaganda
The VW group owns Bugatti, Lamborghini, Bentley, Porsche, Audi, Volkswagen, SEAT and Skoda and they share either knowledge, engines, engine parts, platforms or what have you between the whole group
KTM now owns Husky and hopefully it'll make it a "Porsche or Audi" and not a "SEAT or Skoda"...
...or did I get it completely wrong?
(correct me if I did 
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vw group = different people make "similar" cars.
ktm group = same people make "different" bikes.
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Muddy Waters
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I think I see what you're saying
You say that it will not be like VW where different cars might share a component or two
It will be more like Ford/Lincoln/Mercury, Chevy/GMC, Dodge/Chrysler where the same car would be sold with a different badge, maybe different color or exterior look
A8=Bentley=Phaeton (same suspension transmission, axles suspension hard points etc)
Toureg=A7=Porsche Cayanne (same as above)
Jetta=A3
Previous Generation Passat and A4 were same platform (north/South FWD and AWD)
no. vw group cars nowadays share all the major components, like proeasy pointed out. but each company has their own r&d, their own design studios, and so on. they run a multitude of teams, using the platforms to their individual style and strategy. there have always been discussions whether this is "necessary", but success proves them right: all those brands have a distinctive look/feel and portfolio, and thanks to the "internal competition" the group keeps progressing technologically like they do.
while at vw you basically have many different teams doing "the same thing", pierer's approach seems to be letting the same people do "different things". same designers, same r&d (according to latest interviews, husky is only 15 people, mostly marketing and distribution), "different" bikes?
the nuda and the f800 are two quite different interpretations of the same theme. same goes for the 449 and g450x, or fantic and gas gas, or ducati and bimota. i am sceptical whether the ktm group will ever achieve this level of diversity with their approach.
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