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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Now find some stubby LED rear blinkers to replace the floppy stock ones. I kept kicking mine getting on/off, and they dance around like a chihuahua after a pot of coffee...
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Som modifications performed today, among others the wife has been banned from riding passenger ever after
Passenger footpegs, passenger handlebars, snorkel and chain guard removed - and some stickers attached..
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Planning on painting heat shields black in the future.
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Looks a lot cleaner this way I think...
Skateboard wheels attached on M16 threaded stainless steel rods. All home made...
160mm rear tyre, 5mm gap between chain and tyre wall.
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The parts removed....
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Very impressive! Especially the tank stickers (where from??)
Sure you quoted the right post?![]()
What tank sticker? They are original, but a bit sun bleached going from red to bright orange.....No! I´m quite certain I didn´t. T´was Redback´s Norwegian bike I was admiring.
What tank sticker? They are original, but a bit sun bleached going from red to bright orange.....
Yep, beleive it or not - but we do have sunshine from time to time.Norwegian sunlight??!
Actually, where I was working up to recently in Hammerfest, we had 24 hours of sunshine for days on end....Yep, beleive it or not - but we do have sunshine from time to time.![]()
Looks like Lake Wallowa in Joseph,Or.