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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Kellys ongoing goofy thread...

Xcuvator said:
Yeah looks simple and fun. I wasn't familiar with what a brat bike is. Might be a regional difference. There are scramblers, bobbers, rat bikes and now brats and the definitions seem to overlap a bit.
Goon riding is maybe a West coast term that generally refers to goofing off. Wheelies, roosting your buddy etc etc.
I have an old Triumph and a XS650 Yamaha and want to make one of them into a street tracker.
An example or two:



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Yes, please! :love:
 
I also loved the idea of building a 450cc sportbike. Basically a SM with bodywork and layed out with sportbike geometry. There was a series in CA a while back that had this class, not sure if they still do though. It never seemed to catch on anywhere else. Always wanted to ride a 2 stroke aprilia too :)
 
If you all are really Into all of these bikes check out Roland Sands. He really builds the coolest custom bikes. If nothing else it can give you some ideas for your own projects
 
Ive been following the gp moto and 4 moto designs for a while now. There is a company called GpTech who makes a lo of the items you would need to convert a 450 into one. Imagine a YZ450F with a complete R6 front end and a rear shock shortened and revalved/resprung and some TZ250 bodywork. Oh man that would be fun!
 
I was enjoying his flip flips and the wobbly car wheels and that fact that the engine didnt idle haha. Somebody with some video skills needs to remix that vid with the theme song from the movie
 
Motosportz said:
the issue with the CB350 is it weighs a lot and make very little power. IMHO.
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There used to be a big bore kit for the 350s that allowed them to run 450 pistons. The SL 350 K1 was 45-50 pounds lighter than the CB or CL models and tipping the scales around 300 pounds. I put the kit in my buddies K1 and the compression was 235 psi. Remember 100+ pump gas?
Made for a real good Tillamook Burn hillclimber, Back To Backs, Big Burtha etc.
The motor eventually made it into a Maico frame and I don't remember if we ever weighed it.
I have had my eyes open for a good deal on a K1 for awhile. Everyone seems to know (so far) what they are worth though.
 
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