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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Your Electric DS bike is here...

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Just completely restyle it and quadruple the range and your good to go. :D

http://www.motorcycledaily.com/04august09_zerodualsport.htm

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funky stylin ... looks like a dirt bike with messed up sportbike fairing grafted on. Seems like they are trying to keep the radiator shroud styling of modern dirtbikes. I bet they would have better luck if they developed a modern interpetation of the old school air cooled look. No rad ... no rad shrouds needed
 
I agree with Skid. It's got no radiators, so show that off with a radiator-less design. You're buying that bike because it's NOT the same old liquid cooled combustion engine. Why make it look like it is?

I would definitely consider one of those once the range is worked out. And once you can plug in while you're eating lunch on your DS ride.
 
I guess you'll have to take that smoky old diesel generator with you when you hit the trail with the e-bike! ;)

Those Zero's certainly have the tech, but the styling isn't quite there yet. I read a pretty favourable review of one in TBM recently and the only real downsides seem to be the endurance (approx 45 minutes) and the price of a replacement battery (£2300 IIRC - that's about $3800, but it'll be cheaper in the States - everywhere's cheaper than the UK!). Say 500 cycle battery life, that's 375 hours as a very rough guess.

Still, this is bleeding edge technology, so as it becomes more commonplace the price should fall and performance will improve.
 
Until fuel cells, flux capacitor or cold fusion is perfected, I think a hybrid solution might be the best answer.
Example; A high performance motor along with a small combustion engine to delivery average power and super capacitors to provide peek power and recover braking energy. With the correct motor there would be no need for gears and the possibilities are endless for features like traction control or perfect wheelie mode. It would also be simple to add a small motor to the front wheel for improved cornering.

Maybe I can get some Stimulus money before everyone takes it for building $3 million turtle road crossings.:busted:
 
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