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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Wis. Harley workers approve contract to freeze pay

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mnb;120717 said:
MV was sold.


Harleys are good, reliable bikes. Yeah, they're cruisers. So don't expect a 57 Chevy to handle and perform like a Ferrari. Different types of bikes serve different purposes. My Road King did a great job of hauling my ass through 9 states over 30 days and 8300 miles without any trouble at all. It is the most reliable bike I've ever owned.

In comparison, the fastest failure occurred on my recently purchased 2003 Husqvarna TE610e with just under 2000 miles on it. I got about 100 miles out of it and the cam shaft broke. The broken bits fell down into the stator and bounced around and took it out. Cost $1800 to fix.

Even my F800GS which burned out a clutch at 3600 miles didn't fail on me that quick.

But I won't hold one failure against the Husky or the GS. They're great bikes.

I find it funny that so many riders seem to think a bike has to be high performance or it's crap, yet they drive a Ford Focus. They get that different cars serve different purposes, but they don't seem to really get it for bikes...
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Good post. :thumbsup:
 
mnb;120717 said:
In comparison, the fastest failure occurred on my recently purchased 2003 Husqvarna TE610e with just under 2000 miles on it. I got about 100 miles out of it and the cam shaft broke. The broken bits fell down into the stator and bounced around and took it out. Cost $1800 to fix.
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Wow, The previous owner must have had a lot of freakin fun on that bike.
 
ray_ray;120519 said:
Don't get excited Homes, but UR itty bitty girl story sucks ...
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Wow Rayray were you talking to me ?
Harsh words there buddy

That’s OK, I loled it :lol:
Here’s a cool commercial for Harley
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take it easy friend, it’s futile to get angry on the interweb

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As I said, don't get excited homes ...we'll all americans and it is our way of life being stolen ...

Harley is one of the few things amercian makes ... hope they make it some how ... And 'm thinking they will... The Buell deal seems like BS but if they were really, really needing money, it would have been sold and not shelved ... Not sure on that MV deal, but apparently they cut their losses up front before it could bled they too much ... Wish I could say the same on some of my business deals ...
 
ray_ray;120519 said:
Don't get excited Homes, but UR itty bitty girl story sucks ...
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This is well beyond condescending, and is not appreciated.

In addition the term is "you are" not UR, and the term "Homes" is not good to use at all.


Normally this rule only applies to things in the Diner, because that is where these types of things normally occur. No religious or political topics


No good will come from this thread. Thread closed.
 
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