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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

75 and still going!

He is linked to that new e rag for dirt bikes. Good on him, would love to do the same.
 
That's awesome. My grandpa is 74 and just rode his bmw from so cal all the way to British Columbia and hit some dirt along the way as well. He used to smoke my a$$ when I was a teenager and when he was still riding his xr600. I give the the old timers props for sure
 
Yep. I miss Colby Johnson and Al Nurian out at McCain Valley. Colby is about 80 now and Al is probably 84. Colby used to come out and ride his KTM set up sort of like a trials bike, and then Al would drive out in his old truck with a four stroke Montesa trials bike in the camper shell. He'd get out and unfold his walker, unload his bike. Then Colby would kick start it for him, and he'd lean his walker against the truck and shuffle over to his bike, get on, stand up and off they'd go for an afternoon of rock crawling. Colby would always be there for Al, to pick Al and his bike up after a fall. The spring of 2015 was the last time I saw either of them out at the riding area. After that, no more. So I e-mailed Colby and asked if everything was alright. He replied that Al was stuck at home now, in poor health. Colby also said that he moved on from his KTM to a mountain bicycle that he could ride near his house.

Al and his Montesa.
 
That's sad to hear that he's had to give up but nab oh man that is giving it as long as you possibly can to continue riding.
 
Stay riding it's great exercise. Keeps you in shape. Your working every muscle group. Remember all we do as we get older is wick it and brake it. It's surviving the ride.

When I gave up riding my body went down hill. When I was riding three to four times a week I was in the best shape of my life.

You have to love life and life will love you back enjoy the ride life goes by so fast. Slow down take a kid riding.
 
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