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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

What happened to high/low range gearboxes?

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huskylove

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I was thinking this the other day. It is the one thing that is not progressing with motorcycle design.


Why do we not have 2 range gearboxes?

Why do I not atleast have a 7th gear double over-drive?

I know both can be done, what gives?

I would kill to have 15/40 gearing then switch over to a 15-48 or whatever the range would be. A huge spread "freeway" and "offroad" gearing. Why the heck isnt this standard on big bmw's and other adventure bikes?

I know too tall of gearing and any little bike would have trouble pulling freeway speeds, but a drop down and you are back into 6th or standard overdrive would be killer.

They did it when we had 3-4 speed transmissions why not add it to a 6 speed?

Too late for world discovery, too early for space travel.

Are we going to get anything cool in the near future?


Weight is a legitimate concern, but more importantly COST better not be. When a ktm street legal bike is 12000$ with one piston, how about they give the customers something unique and worth that insane price!


It seems like after 2004-2005 every manufacturer went to sleep and stopped innovating or producing anything unique or of any interest.
 
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