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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Cool vintage bike web site...
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oregontrail
Husqvarna
AA Class
Here's our site from the Pacific Northwest. 
RLW
Husqvarna
AA Class
That it does......just going thru his "My Bikes" had me thinking of bikes I had almost forgotten.Dirtdame;20070 said:
Remember seeing Jawa sold in either Sears or Montgomery Wards catalog back in the late '60's-early '70's
The SWM pics, reminded me of back in '80 a local dealer carried those for a very short time. I got to ride the 320(?) trials bike and 250 enduro. Impressive and great looking red/white bikes in those days.
....also ridden one of those red fiberglass body Rickman MX bikes w/250 Montessa engine......very loud bike (as many were from those years)
oregontrail;20356 said:
That's cool Jeff.
RLW;20437 said:
There was a shop in Forest Grove Oregon when I was a kid that carried all the cool European brands like SWM, OSSA, Bultaco etc. I used to love going in there and staring at the SWM's which seemed very futuristic at the time. Looking back I bet the guys that ran that place laughed at me when I came in as I would just look at the bikes for hours and go home, a couple times a week.
RLW
Husqvarna
AA Class
pretty much the same thing I did at a couple shops......well, I did end up buying 3 new Suzukis from the Suzuki/SWM dealer (2 DS dirt bikes and a GS400 street bike), so he was pretty understanding. The guy let me ride every bike they got in. Think the only Suzuki model I didn't ride between '78 - '81 was a JR50.
I don't remember Boise having much outside of the standard jap bikes. If you looked hard you might find a Hodaka or Bultaco, and did see an Ossa. Oh, and one really small shop sold a Penton/KTM or two.
I don't remember Boise having much outside of the standard jap bikes. If you looked hard you might find a Hodaka or Bultaco, and did see an Ossa. Oh, and one really small shop sold a Penton/KTM or two.