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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Check out this bike hauler setup

I still want to see someone actually load that thing. I've got those wheel shoes in a trailer, and the bike needs to be perfectly aligned. Putting the front tire in the chock with the rear still on the ground would be a guaranteed way to bend the front rotor. The whole bike would need to be on the tube and roll forward before locking in place.

I'm trying to find pictures, but I remember seeing a guy show up at a race here. He had an old Corolla I think it was at least, that he took a cut off wheel to and made into an El Camino chop job. Removed the front console and back seat, cut out some more of the roof, and put some eye bolts in what was left of the roof. No idea how he actually drove it to the race.
 
Like this???

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Instead of a single rear wheel, I think it would be better with a dual wheel setup with the axle further forward under the rear wheel of the bike. You could cut significant length off the trailer that way, and incorporate a stowaway ramp to facilitate loading the bike from the rear.
 
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