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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

USB stick manuals

krussell

krussell

Strada Adventurer
Picked up my Strada Friday, was excited to learn that it came with the manuals on a USB device. Well, I was excited. Plugged it into my windows 7 laptop, said download the PDF of the service manual, and I get an error message saying file can't be copied. Poked around a bit, tried it from Linux, seems like my stick is partially corrupt.

Anyone else having luck? I'm bummed, I want to be reading the service manual, lots of questions.
 
Even if you get it to load its just about the same as the book. Just about worthless in my book. Need the shop manual to do any real work. Have not found one yet. Hopefully someone will see this and post the real shop manual.
 
krussell said:
Picked up my Strada Friday, was excited to learn that it came with the manuals on a USB device. Well, I was excited. Plugged it into my windows 7 laptop, said download the PDF of the service manual, and I get an error message saying file can't be copied. Poked around a bit, tried it from Linux, seems like my stick is partially corrupt.

Anyone else having luck? I'm bummed, I want to be reading the service manual, lots of questions.
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Ask Bryon or Bill at BMP if they can get you the Shop Manual and the stick Owners Manual on a CD.
 
Coffee said:
That is the first time I've heard of a pdf being picky what operating system is being used, interesting..
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It could be that the USB stick is formated as an image and not an actual mass storage device. I haven't actually seen/used one yet but that's often the case with this kind of stuff. Very odd that it would be biased to to a 32bit OS...that part I don't really believe.
 
I tried 32 bit windows xp, same result. It's a dud, I'll have the dealer have a look at mine, or have a look at one that the dealer has.
 
Coffee said:
That is the first time I've heard of a pdf being picky what operating system is being used, interesting..
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The pdf's worked on mine, but the application that ran the linked PDF's was 32 bit. The dealer can reinstall the entire package for you.
 
Tinken said:
The pdf's worked on mine, but the application that ran the linked PDF's was 32 bit. The dealer can reinstall the entire package for you.
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There are a lot of pdf readers out there. I used 'foxit' when I used windows XP... I am sure if that does not work with Win7 Win8 or whatever then there are several others to pick from, besides the one from Adobe themselves.
 
If you guys have a gmail account, try uploading your PDFs to google drive and see if they'll render in your browser. You could also share the manuals with other people on the board through google drive :)
 
i must have the best dealership out there , i already have the complete factory shop manual , i got it when i picked up my new terra this past weekend , i would recommend seeing your dealer, the manual i have has everything in it , complete right down to all torque specs ,
 
PARTSDUDE said:
i must have the best dealership out there , i already have the complete factory shop manual , i got it when i picked up my new terra this past weekend , i would recommend seeing your dealer, the manual i have has everything in it , complete right down to all torque specs ,
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Excellent, that means it must exist. Did you get paper or PDF? $ or Free?
 
I got if for free , my dealer gave it to me when i picked up my bike, he knew i like to do all of my own work , its the factory manual , he put it on a memory stick for me and then i printed it out , approx 154 pages .
 
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