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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
I just ordered the sm mototech crash bars also.
Put mine on this weekend. Bars and Skid plate. Very nice stuff. Only complaint is the Skid plate reflects a lot of engine noise. Will be buying some sound suppressor material soon.![]()
I believe I detect a pattern here. Someone, who shall remain nameless, but whose first name rhymes with fault, is missing out on a lot of crash bar sales. Lesson to be learned I suppose. My SW Motech bars are in the hands of FedEx and should get here Mon.
Actually, SW-Motech has had their products on the market longer than you think. It just took them longer to be available here in the US, since they are a German based company and had to deal with importing through customs.
Seems like the racks are simple enough that they just require a pipe bender and welder. You can design and order the brackets they are cheap but everything else it would seem to be cheaper to make yourself.