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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

The bikes of EICMA

Motosportz

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Just thought we needed a thread to check out all the new bikes...

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always looking at all the other 4 stroke machines and trying to figure out why CRFs have a friggan 20 foot long header pipe....I just saw a CRF450 with a Pro circuit pipe that looked like a grab handle .
 
robertaccio said:
always looking at all the other 4 stroke machines and trying to figure out why CRFs have a friggan 20 foot long header pipe....I just saw a CRF450 with a Pro circuit pipe that looked like a grab handle .
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The idea is that they move the muffler forward yet maintain length that way. Mass centralization.
 
:cool: The pedal bike is so cool, sign me up. Oh , how interesting a KTM 4-stroke with Husky stickers on it, gosh where can i pick one up?:cool:
 
Coffee said:
Anyone have any idea what % of the bikes at that show actually make it to production without significant changes?
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i guess 80% of the bikes there are actually production bikes already. another 10% are race bikes, and the last 10% are "prototypes".

the first two days are "press and industry only", the other four days are "open to the public". all the manufacturers show their portfolio of next year's bikes, you can sit onto them, check out the ergonomics, and so on. of course, you mostly see the "special bikes" on the various websites, so one might get the impression that there's "special bikes" behind fences only.

some of these "prototypes" are actually "production bikes", since the production quantity is so low (i.e. magni). some are dedicated one-off custom bikes (i.e. the "deus ex" bikes that were shown at the yamaha booth), some are pre-production bikes (like the ktm 1290 super duke last year), and only a very little percentage is real prototype bikes, like the husky 701.
you'll never know if these prototypes will ever be produced. sometimes, companies show bikes that they are unsure about. for example, the 946 that piaggio were showing last year finally turned into a production bike, with only minor changes. sometimes they simply put a bike there that they simply consider "interesting", without ever wantingto turn them into a production bike (i.e. the husky mille). sometimes, the companies are surprised about the public's enthusiasm about a "showbike", change their mind, and turn them into a production bike, or make them accessible to different markets (i.e. honda cb 1300)...

my impression over the last years is that the economic crisis reduces the companies' willingness for real innovation and conceptual "experiments". there's obviously a lack of "polarizing" bikes. almost everybody goes to offering "mass-compatible" mediocre design that nobody really likes or hates, and to selling "old wine in new bottles" instead. of course, there's always some exceptions, but those are in most cases "rich men's toys" (i.e. brough superior).

pat ohara said:
Take a minute to check out the website, unreal.:D
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even the price is unreal. :D

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