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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
7602 Racing's new shop.
- Thread starter Colo moto
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Husqvarna
Jimmy250
Husqvarna
AA Class
Sounds Awesome! One of these days! and If I were close I would test ride for free as well!
reveille
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Well since I was born and raised in Wisconsin, that's music to my ears. I'll swing by Monday and drop off my resume.
haha sounds good. Make sure to bring that 501. I might need to scare myself a little.
If you ever do make it out this way give us a heads up so we can plan a good ride.
reveille
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I have an Uncle that lives in Florissant and a cousin in Denver so I get out that way every year. I plan to make it out next Spring and should have the 501 along this time. I may get in touch ahead of time to set aside some time to check out some single track in your area. The 501 is smooth and easy to ride but she pulls hard all the way to the top and will go as fast as you have the balls to go. 95 and I'm crapping my shorts... Things get pretty blurry at that speed.
Few pics of the shop floor finally painted. Between the walls and the floor it was a solid 4 days of painting probably. I hate painting to begin with, but now I hate it even more. haha.
Every shop I have ever worked in had dull, grey floors. I always thought having a bright cheerful colored floor would be nice. So Bright and cheerful is what I set out to do. Hopefully this will help keep the mood upbeat when no one feels like working. The shop is ready to be moved into now. There are still a few things to finish like framing up the offices and building benches, but those can be done once we are in. We are producing another run of KTM/Husky rad braces, Husky disc guards and KTM/Husky brake pedal tips so we can be well stocked up before we move the heavy equipment. Once we cut those out and ship them off to anodize its moving time.... finally.
Every shop I have ever worked in had dull, grey floors. I always thought having a bright cheerful colored floor would be nice. So Bright and cheerful is what I set out to do. Hopefully this will help keep the mood upbeat when no one feels like working. The shop is ready to be moved into now. There are still a few things to finish like framing up the offices and building benches, but those can be done once we are in. We are producing another run of KTM/Husky rad braces, Husky disc guards and KTM/Husky brake pedal tips so we can be well stocked up before we move the heavy equipment. Once we cut those out and ship them off to anodize its moving time.... finally.
Jimmy250
Husqvarna
AA Class
Good energy coming from in there!
...and why didn't i know anything about this?!?! LolThat floor is fantastic! Creating your own custom work atmosphere shows that you truly are your own man Clay. Well done.
I got rid of a bike today that had a few 7602 trinkets on it.Good news is that I have a new bike that will need shinny new ones!
That floor is fantastic! Creating your own custom work atmosphere shows that you truly are your own man Clay. Well done.
I got rid of a bike today that had a few 7602 trinkets on it.
Thanks. I don't know about all that my own man part, but I'll try. Better ask my wife first.
What is the new bike? Is it red or blue?
FabOneUp
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Well maybe it isn't so new after all. It is the 2014 orange bike under my avatar. Still seems new to me since I am still trying to figure out how to ride it.
Trust me LoM, you will be the first to know if I get a brand new bike.
My wife said I could post this providing she is the first to know if I get a brand new bike.
Well maybe it isn't so new after all. It is the 2014 orange bike under my avatar. Still seems new to me since I am still trying to figure out how to ride it.
I've had an orange bike for a couple of years now, and I'm still trying to figure out how to ride it. I sure miss my TXC 250.
Man that floor is sure groovy. You could always open up one of those special dispensaries if the bike parts business slows down(Que John Denver and rocky mountain high)...
Sure would make a lot more money that way, that's for sure.
JRW
Husqvarna
AA Class
Looks like a nice place to work. Ride the TE to work, ride trails at lunch. Bet your employees feel like slaves. 
No open dirt around me, have to drive at least 45 minutes just to get to a private park or national forest OHV trail. Lots of good stuff around me, I just don't live on top of it.
Envious...
No open dirt around me, have to drive at least 45 minutes just to get to a private park or national forest OHV trail. Lots of good stuff around me, I just don't live on top of it.
Envious...
We got out of the last shop just in time. Our old shop was an abandoned movie theater that was converted into an auto shop. We moved in there after the auto shop went under and were there from 2006-2014. The old movie theater had the street front converted into a liquor store and a laundromat. There were 3 apartments upstairs where the projector room used to be. Right next door there was an apartment complex that had expanded all the way to my old building, the theater. Last week the apartment complex caught fire and spread throughout the entire building and my old shop. A buddy called me to let me know my old shop was going up in flames, so I went into town to check it out. I gotta say even though I was completely out of there it was still heart breaking watching a place where I got my start and spent so much time burn to the ground. Not to mention all the people who lost everything in the fire. My heart goes out to all of them who now have nothing. I am counting my lucky stars that 7602 Racing wasn't still in that building.
View of the East wall. The concrete entry way for the garage door can be seen near the bottom right. About where the tan wall meets the rubble. My office area used to be straight through the main garage. It's just on the other side of the large pile of rubble in the center.
View of the East wall. The concrete entry way for the garage door can be seen near the bottom right. About where the tan wall meets the rubble. My office area used to be straight through the main garage. It's just on the other side of the large pile of rubble in the center.
