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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
sweet
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Motosportz;46817 said:
You know Kelly the last Benelli thread was partially you're fault. I'm sure that Dean cringes every time he hears the name Benelli or the word lutefisk.
robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Benelli,,,i recognize that motor/chassis from their MX/enduro brethren. A great marque with a storied history.
The MX enduro line looked very nice but were still a little cobby in the details and seemed overweight. Fun concept old school scrambler,,,the beezer and metisse are art work****************************************thanks for the post
The MX enduro line looked very nice but were still a little cobby in the details and seemed overweight. Fun concept old school scrambler,,,the beezer and metisse are art work****************************************thanks for the post
robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
sooorrry i just had to,,,,,BENELLI****************************************
7point62;46828 said:OW! A Rickman? That's not fair!
Titanium framed 250. They went to all that trouble, then left all that meat in the rear sprocket.[/IMG]
And ran a 20 pound rear tire.
robertaccio;46829 said:
sooorrry i just had to,,,,,BENELLI****************************************
I believe the vertimati bros worked on that right? Did it ever make it to production?
K
7point62;46828 said:OW! A Rickman? That's not fair!
Titanium framed 250. They went to all that trouble, then left all that meat in the rear sprocket.
Hmmm, must pull good off the bottom. that sprocket looks more like a cast iron pancake.
What I like is the snail cam adjuster at the front of the swingarm.
Dirtdame;46833 said:
Genius. Less unsprung weight for that 1.38" of travel back there.
robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
uo oh do I feel a Benelli thread starting......it had lots of merit, but was cobby up close (prototype stuff). The classic Green/Silver was brilliant. and they were loaded with all the good components, and size was good. Msportz I dont know the Vertemati bros worked that one?? (possible). PS Benelli is owned by a Chinese company.
7point62
Husqvarna
AA Class
robertaccio;46895 said:
Thanks for the info robertaccio. Chinese ownership? Wow - as long as they don't build them there
I'm just heading over to the Benelli homepage for a nosey. I liked them when I was a kid - they have a great racing heritage and I almost bought a 350-4 once.
Edit: the 505 enduro as per the UK website:
http://www.benelli.co.uk/_bikes/bx_505/bx_505.php
"Price TBA". Still.
The trail seemed to go a bit cold after 2007 news-wise.
Michael Lueders
Husqvarna
A Class
robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Wow FI,
the ones at EICMA 08 were Mik carbed with Mik vacuum fuel pumps in line because the bottom of the tank was behind and below the carb bowl. kinda looked outboard (boat) motorish with the vacuum fuel pump. The bike sure is nice looking.
the ones at EICMA 08 were Mik carbed with Mik vacuum fuel pumps in line because the bottom of the tank was behind and below the carb bowl. kinda looked outboard (boat) motorish with the vacuum fuel pump. The bike sure is nice looking.
7point62;46900 said:Thanks for the info robertaccio. Chinese ownership? Wow - as long as they don't build them there
I'm just heading over to the Benelli homepage for a nosey. I liked them when I was a kid - they have a great racing heritage and I almost bought a 350-4 once.
Edit: the 505 enduro as per the UK website:
http://www.benelli.co.uk/_bikes/bx_505/bx_505.php
"Price TBA". Still.
The trail seemed to go a bit cold after 2007 news-wise.
7point62
Husqvarna
AA Class
robertaccio;47517 said:
Some other interesting specs:
So it's probably quite a rev monster.
For lubricant circulation / control? That's a bit of a trip back in time.
As in cassette? Does that mean that individual ratios can be chosen?
Sounds good if it's not stretching the meaning of the term "dry".
No, I'm not in the market for one (I'm only a "weekend warrior"), but the old emerald green is very evocative and it's so much prettier than the Bee-Emm 450.