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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Generally europe gets new bikes released before we do. Probably were planning on seeing how the terra/strada worked out here first. Really cool bike, tourtech made an offroad style one tooWhat was the real reason they were never released to the States?
It's essentially a lighter, more powerful, and better suspended F800R, without the vibration issues. BMW knew that if they brought it here, they wouldn't sell any F800R's.What was the real reason they were never released to the States?
whos saying you didnt?That sales advertisement I put there is real ... I sat on that bike ...
I'm just saying come buy it ...If you want it...
No $ down ..5 yrs to pay ... They are begging someone to take it ...
I go back to the city in a couple months ... I'll check on it again and verify what the deal is again ...
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I'll go this far ... You buy it and I will ride it ... The roads really suck here for a bike like that, but I will risk a ride on it ... Not saying I will top it out, but I will loop this island on it ... The gasoline (Euro 4?) will be provided ...
What was the real reason they were never released to the States?
It's essentially a lighter, more powerful, and better suspended F800R, without the vibration issues. BMW knew that if they brought it here, they wouldn't sell any F800R's.