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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Beer-n-power Tools....

pvduke

pvduke

Husqvarna
Pro Class
000_0008.JPG Bored to tears like me? This can happen to you...

EVS BJ22 under jersey protector. Super bomb-proof thing and worth every nickle. But unless you are going 15 MPH minimum yer sweatin'. I really like it though. Especially the all-in-one dealio and the fact my pants don't go up over (sucky) or down past my kidney belt (really sucky), and it's saved my hide a few times- EVS makes damn good stuff. But the darn things just an oven in the summer.

So- I cut off the elbow guards and sleeves (I like my A-stars elbow gaurds way better), snipped off the back plate (there's still a half-inch of bio-foam back there and a back pack to save my spine), grabbed my cordless drill (one in every room here at the moto-pad), the cutting board from the kitchen and perforated the thing. Hey, ever wear perforated leathers after non-perf's? Ya won't go back.

It's a good half-pound lighter and now the breeze might even reach my skin.

Don't try this at (in your) home, at least w/o checking with the wife first....I'm single, giant suprise there, right? :lol:

Beer-n-power tools, a good thing?

You decide.

G'night everybody.
 
and yes there are advantages to bein single lol beer, hot wings for dinner whenever you want and workin on stuff in the livingroom bein 3 of em!
 
Argh...I stayed up way too late. Checked my work and didn't even drill through the foam under the plastic, suckers still pretty impact resistant. This is gonna work good.

OK- mess is all cleaned up, Advil and nap time, then off for a surf.

Cheers!
 
000_0009.JPG000_0010.JPG Meh- blown out mush, back to the garage. Wicked pretty day though and I forgot my camera.
Comon out bud- lots of boards. Good times for the whole fam.

Here's another lil something I just whipped up, w/o power tools or beer (roomate hid everything so...). Stumbled onto my old MX under jersey roost-deflector. Really nice piece, thick bio-foam too- VERY not cheap. Found some old hip pads, sew in some velcro, done. The grey pads are killer rubberized dealios, super felxy and tough stuff. This thing is COMFY, fits great and is light as a feather. Might snip up the old back plate I got from the BJ22 and put some of that on the frontal area for more impact protection.
 
Man, I used to take advantage of bike maintenance time to knock back some beers (strong micro's). Not any more. Kept making mistakes doing simple stuff like installing front wheel without a spacer. My valve adjustment earlier this year required a stone sober approach. Too unfamiliar with the process on this x-lite engine and didn't want to make any mistakes measuring shims. I found an error in the shop manual doing so...... I believe it was the cause of early owners of these bikes stripping th cam bolt threads. . Rock on pyou crazy loon!
 
if i was close id be there, always wanted to try it and finally got to last year in daytona on a rental board...kinda weak waves though only about a good 25-35ft of surfable area. i got up to a mid squat position and thats about it... thinkin of buyin a board and a suit and hittin up lake michigan sometime, from the vids i seen they look better than the waves in daytona i was tryin to surf :eek:
 
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