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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

A new type of wheel chock for your motorcycle.

Dirtdame

Dirtdame

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When I finally got my new toyhauler and was able to use it for the first time, I had to figure out how to secure my TE nicely without wrecking my lovely linoleum floor. I simply took one of the plastic trailer wheel chocks and wedged it in front of the bike's front wheel, then put some stuff in front of that to keep the bike from moving around. The drive to Oak Grove campground was a relatively gentle and smooth drive, so that worked great. But what about when I have to negotiate those windy and often bumpy mountain roads that lead to some of my favorite singletrack areas? I thought that I could make up something utilizing a trailer chock with some non-skid material somehow attached to it....but then I came across these nifty things:
http://www.wheelchockpro.com/
If they do all that they claim, it will be just what I am looking for, and much nicer and more secure than homemade ones. I am going to try them out as soon as they are available next month. Then I can let you know how good they actually perform.
 
Holy cow, I finally got my hands on one of these things! They kept tweaking the details, so it took longer than expected. Funny thing is, the company is only about a mile from my house.:lol: So, I went and met the owners/designers and picked one up (a Chockstyx....not an owner/designer:rolleyes:). I took a couple of pics on the driveway and will be tossing this unit down in the toyhauler very soon for a test run.
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Yeah, if you think that I am excited about it, you're right. I love any product that takes no hardware or installation. It also is supposed to not mar or discolor the floor. Soon, I'll be loading Trajan The TE into it and testing it's claims with a run to the Desert Dash. More pics to follow later.:popcorn:
 
I have two risk racing lock and loads in my enclosed 5x8 .. Work great ... I re-enforced my floor with channel iron and welded to trailer frame for extra support.
 
Anyone have the moto cinch? Does it work? What about hard braking and ensuring the bikes do not move forward?
 
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