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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Farewell Cafe Husky

motoman

motoman

Contributing Member
It is with great sadness that even though I have not posted as many times as others and have been a family member shorter than most that I must say goodbye to Cafe Husky. I was lucky to have been able to purchase the SMS 630 at the discounted price and then " FARKLED" the heck out of it much to my enjoyment even though I never rode it. Earlier this year I reduced my collection of 5 bikes down to 2 with the Husky being one of them. Ebay was my avenue for selling it bringing a surprising ending bid of $8,200 from a local collector. He missed his chance earlier to purchase one and since mine only had 3 miles and thousands of dollars of accessories still in boxes he was extremely happy. I realized after I purchased the SMS 630 that it was a good bike but to become great it needed a lot of upgrades and even after those it still had a few shortcomings.
I am now a member of a new forum dedicated to the BMW R1200GS Adventure model. I must admit that this bike is perfect off of the showroom floor and me adding "FARKLES" is just icing on the cake to such a great bike. The best part of this forum (and the entire BMW community) is they encourage and embrace the adding of farkles - this is probably one of the reasons the GS model has been one of BMW's best selling models for over 30 years, a record that Husky will probably never achieve.
In closing I would like to wish everyone well - including the members that didn't always have a kind word for me - but that is just part of posting on a forum. Good luck and happy Husky riding !

MOTOMAN
 
Yeah man- best wishes to you and enjoy the GS in good health and safety. My 630 shat the bed in a big way recently and I certainly thought of giving up the brand but, after pausing to consider platform's otherwise record of good reliability/durability, it's history, and the fact that it is the best bike for what I want and do (in terms of balancing perf. w/ weight) I decided to try to resurrect the carcass...which I am in the process of pursuing. There's just not another DS out there right now (again when looking at intent of use, power, weight, price) that attracts me. Again enjoy the GS-
 
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