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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
So the dog in the photo above by the river is Bryson, our Giant Schnauzer rescue and regular rider. He was just filmed for the documentary Sit Stay Ride: The Story of America's Sidecar Dogs. More info at www.sidecardogs.com.
This is Bryson, in a still shot from the movie.
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Abby is our foster pup. We're fostering her for Schnauzer Rescue of the Carolinas, the same rescue that brought us Bryson. We decided to give Abby a shot at riding, and she did fantastic. So I'm hoping a home with a hack will adopt her.
This is Abby, taken a few days ago.
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Are we officially off topic yet?![]()
So, just to be clear the Rear Bearing seal is 30X40X7 MM? correct?