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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Yamaha brings back the SR400, how cool is that!

Motosportz

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http://www.cyclenews.com/433/24065/Racing-Article/First-Look--2015-Yamaha-SR400.aspx

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Russ Henry said:
Kick start only ? Bad idea if it is
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I kickstart my 1986 SRX600 every day - no problem, even with the funky carb-and-a-half. The 400 got updated with EFI and aluminum rims (and it looks like a modern rotor) but is otherwise a true throwback. Somewhere a mid-level manager at Royal Enfield just crapped his pants.
 
If this bike sales, you'll notice more bikes of this breed out there ...

Notice the seats on all 70 model and into the 80s (?) bikes, even dirt bikes ... Designers back in that time were certainly aware of having a comfy place to place your back-side...

If I could remove any one thing from our dirt bikes, I'd start with the radiators ... I'm not sure what a modern fast, reving 4st might be like air-cooled but the radiators are the most venerable thing on my bikes I feel ...This could be totally wrong and take performance levels down too much ...

The disc brakes are a must have for safety ...

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More pics
http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/features/2015_yamaha_sr400/photo_01.html
 
ray_ray said:
If this bike sales, you'll notice more bikes of this breed out there ...
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It will not sell well in the states, these bikes never do in the land of more is better. Thats why we usually do not get all the cool small displacement / single cylinder bikes offered elsewhere in the world unless it is a dual sport. The low price will help some. I do know that nice vintage Sr500's bring good money used and are very hard to find.
 
Motosportz said:
It will not sell well in the states, these bikes never do in the land of more is better. Thats why we usually do not get all the cool small displacement / single cylinder bikes offered elsewhere in the world unless it is a dual sport. The low price will help some. I do know that nice vintage Sr500's bring good money used and are very hard to find.
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You are probably on the sales ... I owned a Triumph 955 once and thought it was a great machine and also a death trap ... No way I could ever ride that bike fast often and not kill my self ... I'd take that 400 over it any day ... Maybe the cements the fact that I'm old :(
 
ray_ray said:
You are probably on the sales ... I owned a Triumph 955 once and thought it was a great machine and also a death trap ... No way I could ever ride that bike fast often and not kill my self ... I'd take that 400 over it any day ... Maybe the cements the fact that I'm old :(
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I sold all my fast street bikes and got a Terra for the same reason. Needed to slow down on the street before I left my kids with no dad.
 
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