• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 electric motorcycles to enter production in 2016

I can't wait to test ride one of these bikes. Again, I sure hope they figure out some decent battery technology that allows us to ride more than 45 minutes though. I think my grand kids may see that time but it's not looking like we will. I hope I'm wrong. We can put a man on the moon but can't find a decent battery technology that has a 175 mile range. Sad
 
reveille said:
I can't wait to test ride one of these bikes. Again, I sure hope they figure out some decent battery technology that allows us to ride more than 45 minutes though. I think my grand kids may see that time but it's not looking like we will. I hope I'm wrong. We can put a man on the moon but can't find a decent battery technology that has a 175 mile range. Sad
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I think this tech is going to move forward pretty quickly. Lots of effort and bat tech is the next big thing and lots of engineering happening.
 
When I saw the title I was expecting to find pics of a scooter/commuter bike since that sort of short distance riding makes for less charging issues.

Imagine my surprised at the dirt bike pictures!!

A battery pack that will do a 100 mile desert loop in a sub 250 lb bike and then we are talking (and I dont think it is that far off).
 
Pretty cool I think. Once one of the big players start production of an electric bike the tech will skyrocket I think. So far only small start ups and prototypes are advancing battery tech, but once big corporate dollars or yen get behind it, look out. This one looks like a real dirt bike with an electric motor and not a mountain bike with beefed up parts and an electric motor. Only downsides I see are that tank area looks pretty square and not easy to move around on. Ohhh and that seat looks mighty uncomfortable. :eek:
 
Looks like they got a kids bike happening too wich makes a ton of sense to me. Ride at home no noise issues, controllable power settings, no hat parts to burn kids, no smell, almost zero maintenance.

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Looks like they raided the old PW50 parts bin for some stuff. A pit bike track in every yard!
 
Colo moto said:
Pretty cool I think. Once one of the big players start production of an electric bike the tech will skyrocket I think. So far only small start ups and prototypes are advancing battery tech, but once big corporate dollars or yen get behind it, look out. This one looks like a real dirt bike with an electric motor and not a mountain bike with beefed up parts and an electric motor. Only downsides I see are that tank area looks pretty square and not easy to move around on. Ohhh and that seat looks mighty uncomfortable. :eek:
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Big brand electric: http://www.ktm.com/us/freeride/freeride-e/highlights.html#.U2QD9PlkR8E
 
Motosportz said:
Looks like they got a kids bike happening too wich makes a ton of sense to me. Ride at home no noise issues, controllable power settings, no hat parts to burn kids, no smell, almost zero maintenance.

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Looks like the centerstand doubles as training wheel.....;)
 
Darkside said:
An electric moto3 class would really kick development into high gear.
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There are already race organizations in the world for ELEC bikes with the ama hooks already ...And don't worry...you\1st world folks will be riding one in your lifetime :0) ... Just please don't cry and complain when the top-notch dirt bikes we ride today are no-more ... Oil companies will most likely be the only ones on the side of the gas-burners\ oil burners ... How's that for a bed-partner?
 
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