• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 new Husky701 street bikes

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Reworked KTM 690's as i had assumed.

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I think the concept Scrambler and Cafe bikes have the 390 engine.

The 701 Supermoto looks much better than the concept shown last year.
 
Yeah.... Not a fan of todays tails. With the Ducati Sport Classics, owners of the GT were simply deleting the fender and left the seat hanging and I thought strange. These are strange too and impractical when you hit any water you have a line up your back and down your shirt. Scrambler is too busy and not cohesive. The 701... What's with the big assed rear plastic? Who needs that much bodywork unless it's simply for use as a big billboard :thumbsdown:
 
That's good.... They definitely evoke a reaction. That "pimple" of an extrusion for the logo is weird too, like a really big and getting bigger pimple. Just glad the graphics department put a circle around it. Really highlights their artistry.
 
Yeah, conversation about where is nearest stomach settling medication :-)

Would I ride one? Heck to the yeah!
 
Johnrg said:
Yeah.... Not a fan of todays tails. With the Ducati Sport Classics, owners of the GT were simply deleting the fender and left the seat hanging and I thought strange. These are strange too and impractical when you hit any water you have a line up your back and down your shirt. Scrambler is too busy and not cohesive. The 701... What's with the big assed rear plastic? Who needs that much bodywork unless it's simply for use as a big billboard :thumbsdown:
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Yes, a lot of bikes nowadays seem to forget the rear end. Seems to be an 'influence' from much of the 'hipster doofus' specials builders. Factories then tack on the 'required for legality' rear lights and mudguard extensions for various markets - be they the hanging out in the breeze add ons, or the combo of that and the ugly. but effective for wheel spray, rearward oriented, swingarm mounted 'huggers'. Then many owners get tail tidies or other such things if they find them offensive. Many do.

The big, one piece tank / seat unit / covers. I'm Not a fan, but it makes things cheap(er) to produce, as a factory can do them just as a cover, with the tank itself, and so many other things just hidden beneath, and those items can be as ugly / utilitarian as needed - no finish effort or styling to those items required. Fair enough.

Logical use of the Indian made 370cc 390 modules. It's going to be the biggest source of growth for KTM / Husky - Indian made bikes and the CKD bikes in China by CF Moto. I have to chase up the sales of Mini Dukes - 125 / 200 / 390. Well, I'll have to chase up just what the 'KTM' sales rises are - if they incude the 'KTHusky' sales as well, or it they purely relate to KTM branded bikes.

I'd not be surprised to see the Mini Dukes as being the Lions share of branded KTM's increased sales - those plus the Road Bikes in general.

And that '701' Motard - Logical use also of the 690 base.
 
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