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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Help, have to buy a road bike...

GMP said:
Crusiers handle like shit, and the silly position is rough on your back after an hour or less. Thats important because YOU WILL have to make an evasive manuver sooner or later. Far less front end grip and steering capability than a standard. I had a close call on my VRod when a cop, yes a cop, cut me off to pull out and chase a speeder. Bike was sold ASAP and I went to a Ducati Hypermotard. No good for two up though. I'd look at something along the lines of a larger adventure bike. Tiger is nice. Even a generic Japaneese standard with a good seat and backrest is far better and safer than any crusier.
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My bagger handles pretty good. The old girl has a little less rake than a Vrod though. I agree those are only good for making stright runs and slow turns. Went for a tour with my Dad riding his Tiger a few years back. He couldn't shake me in the twisties, but um, well straight aways were a whole different story.:rolleyes:

Coffee has an excellent point. Assuming you have your MC license already, have you taken a rider safety course? If not perhaps see if she wants to join you. These classes are fun, informative, and can lower your insurance. Then you can have a potentially whole different discussion with her.
 
Thanks everyone for all the great advice!:thumbsup: Gives me a lot more to think about than I had anticipated. My wife in no way wants to ride alone she has made that clear, but for some reason loves being the passenger. I already have my cycle endorsement so, I guess to go any further I will just start test driving a few bikes. There will be pictures of what ever I end up with. Thanks again for all the responses, it is much appreciated!! Stay safe all.
 
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