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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Claudio Castiglioni

Sad news indeed.

In 2004/5 he gave a nod to the US importers of Husky to develop street legal dirt bikes. Mr. Rob Keith was given the task....and in 2006 the US dirt bike world was rocked with 50 state street legal dirt bikes. Husky was suddenly hot. He gave a famous interview in Cycle News in '05 predicting something 'revolutionary'. Obviously others have followed. It branded Husky as a dual sport/street legal race bike when everyone else was focused on 4 stk motocross.

Every time ya ride pavement on a TE in Cali, you have this guy to thank.

Just one small example of his passion, his vision, his moxie.

Condolences to his family and friends.
 
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