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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Gouging the Ice!

Not a lot of ice on a hockey rink, almost got a set of those real cheep about a year back.
 
Steve Kanya said:
Finishing up an indoor ice tire for this sunday's Ice Championship opener in Utah for the kid I'm helping out. Pickett is building his rear tire so I'm under some big pressure to get him on the podium. These screws are nothing like Cold Cutters and are actually pretty dull with less height to help save the indoor ice. View attachment 35606
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Are more studs going in the center? I know those guys are sideways almost the whole time, so maybe they are not necessary.
 
Went and watched the first race this Sunday…..Super awesome and super cold! -24F in the AM and -10 the rest of the day! No one raced my bike.:) We brought hot soup and good friends. Here are a few pics.
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Here is Ryan #10 on his vintage Husky!
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Steve Kanya said:
My tire sucked at the indoor but I think Jake won the pro classes on my front tire at Sacandaga yesterday.
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What would the difference be? More pure ice indoor or sharper lean angels?
 
I built them legally as the whole washer must fully touch the knob, inhibits the lean angle. Jay said he had the only legal front tire there as every front he looked at was off the knob angled.
 
That bike has been breathed on big time this year and is a monster now. I may race it in the old man's class on the weekends he's not doing the arena ICE races.
 
Good night for Maloney down in Florida last night winning pole and the main. Hope to race his bike next week at our club's ice race in Hurleyville, NY. [with my tires tho]1601448_792073630809137_539358999_n.jpg
 
It was a good day at the races here today too! Even my friends that didn't place put on a good show and fought hard for their positions. Lots of top three trophies for Big D's racers. The speed and control of the pro class still just blows my mind…and they never crash out.:notworthy: Lots of carnage in all the other classes though.
 
I didn't race just practiced as I won't have insurance till Feb 1st but my front tires won every pro heat and main along with many Amateur and Senior class wins. Was tuff watching and not racing. The club did fine at the race as the spectator parking lot was full. We should have about 15" of ice by next sunday, brutal cold front on the way. Bummer about Sturbridge and EC cancelling. Jake was unbelievably fast yesterday and he and Maloney put on a great show.
 
One of the boys said he saw you, what Obama didn't sell you insurance to race LOL. Sturbridge should be on this weekend.
 
I'm hard to miss with my Fun Mover and all the action that goes on around me with helping the kids race, flagging, lining up riders, mounting ice tires for people, riding the YZ and sellin tires. Non stop day but wish I could have chased PJ, Jake, and Jay on the TT. I can hang on the road course but they smoke me on the huge backstretch with their breathed on CRFs. The YZ was very fast in the road section even w/ this old man on it.
 
Impressed that he kept PJ in site in the heat. He just signed a Moto GP Supersport contract for next year and is a scary fast ice racer. Maloney struggled with a rear tire that wouldn't brake/turn going right, he should have raced my YZ.
 
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